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Mercator

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AI-assisted data analytics

Summer 2022Founded 20222 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
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About

Mercator is your AI-assisted data analytics platform for writing faster, cheaper, and smarter SQL. Co-founders Andrew and Dayton met on the Instacart data science team. Dayton earned a physics PhD at UC Berkeley before entering DS. Andrew spent six years as a SWE at Uber, where he developed pydeck, a geospatial data visualization library with over 12M downloads. Mercator is backed by Y Combinator, Tribe Capital, Soma Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Amplify Partners, and Rebel Fund.

Founders ยท 2

Dayton Thorpe
Dayton ThorpeFounder
Berkeley

Co-Founder and CEO at Mercator. Previously in Data Science at Instacart, Valor Equity Partners, and Kabbage. Physics PhD from UC Berkeley.

Andrew Duberstein
Andrew DubersteinFounder
UberOpenAI

Data scientist at OpenAI. Previously co-founder and CTO of Mercator (YC S22), data science leadership at Instacart, TLM at Uber. Author and co-maintainer of pydeck.gl.

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