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Chalk Raises $50M Series A to Power AI Inference

Announcements

May 28, 2025

Chalk Raises $50M Series A to Power AI Inference

by Marc Freed-Finnegan

I'm incredibly excited to share that Chalk has raised a $50 million Series A at a $500 million valuation, led by Felicis, with participation from Triatomic Capital and our existing investors General Catalyst, Unusual Ventures, and Xfund. This funding marks a huge milestone and a powerful validation of our vision for real-time AI infrastructure.

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7 Common MLOps Challenges (and How to Solve Them)

Product

December 22, 2025

7 Common MLOps Challenges

Megan O'Leary - Director of Comms
Megan O'Leary
Medely staffs critical healthcare in real-time with Chalk

Customer Stories

December 11, 2025

Medely Customer Story

Linda Zhou - Marketing Manager
Linda Zhou
Fintech Leader FIS Built a Real-Time Identity and Fraud Detection Platform Powered by Chalk

Customer Stories

December 4, 2025

FIS Customer Story

Dani Lang - Product Marketing
Dani Lang
Quarterly Product Update: Fall

Product

November 10, 2025

Quarterly Product Update: Fall

Dani Lang - Product Marketing
Dani Lang
Mission Lane demo: Scaling ML with thousands of features

Events

November 3, 2025

Mission Lane Demo Recap

Linda Zhou - Marketing Manager
Linda Zhou
Powering Reliable, Explainable Data for Credit Decisioning at iwoca with Chalk

Customer Stories

October 30, 2025

iwoca Customer Story

Dani Lang - Product Marketing
Dani Lang

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Chalk Named to Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech 2025

Events

October 17, 2025

Fast Company Next Big Things in Tech

Linda Zhou - Marketing Manager
Linda Zhou
Deploy where your data lives: Why Chalk runs in your cloud

Events

October 1, 2025

Why Chalk runs in your cloud

Dani Lang - Product Marketing
Dani Lang
Chalk for Data Scientists

Product

September 10, 2025

Chalk for Data Scientists

Linda Zhou - Marketing Manager
Elvis Kahoro - Developer Advocate
Linda Zhou, Elvis Kahoro
MoneyLion delivers AI- powered personal finance products with Chalk

Customer Stories

September 8, 2025

Moneylion Customer Story

Dani Lang - Product Marketing
Dani Lang
CEO Marc on The Information TV

Events

September 8, 2025

CEO Marc on The Information TV

Linda Zhou - Marketing Manager
Linda Zhou
Chalk on TWiST500

Events

August 29, 2025

Chalk on TWiST500

Linda Zhou - Marketing Manager
Linda Zhou
Chalk for Data Engineers

Product

August 20, 2025

Chalk for Data Engineers

Linda Zhou - Marketing Manager
Linda Zhou
How Chalk fuels Whatnot’s live shopping platform

Customer Stories

August 18, 2025

Whatnot Customer Story

Dani Lang - Product Marketing
Dani Lang
SciPy 2025 Recap

Events

August 13, 2025

SciPy 2025 Recap

Linda Zhou - Marketing Manager
Elvis Kahoro - Developer Advocate
Linda Zhou, Elvis Kahoro
Quarterly Product Update: Summer

Product

August 7, 2025

Quarterly Product Update: Summer

Dani Lang - Product Marketing
Dani Lang
Verisoul Demo Recap

Events

August 1, 2025

Verisoul Demo Recap

Linda Zhou - Marketing Manager
Linda Zhou
Feature store vs. Feature engine

Product

July 14, 2025

Feature store vs. Feature engine

Linda Zhou - Marketing Manager
Linda Zhou
Mission Lane’s Source of Truth for Credit Decisioning with Chalk

Customer Stories

July 10, 2025

Mission Lane Customer Story

Dani Lang - Product Marketing
Dani Lang
Chalk for AI Engineers

Product

June 27, 2025

Chalk for AI Engineers

Linda Zhou - Marketing Manager
Elvis Kahoro - Developer Advocate
Linda Zhou, Elvis Kahoro
What is MLOps?

Product

June 10, 2025

What is MLOps?

Linda Zhou - Marketing Manager
Linda Zhou
What Data Council 2025 taught us about the future of data

Events

June 4, 2025

Data Council 2025

Elvis Kahoro - Developer Advocate
Elvis Kahoro
Which LLM Wins at Nolan Trivia? Chalk’s Prompt Evaluation in Production

Engineering

June 2, 2025

Which LLM Wins at Nolan Trivia?

Sai Atmakuri - Software Engineer
Sai Atmakuri
Chalk on the Move: April Events Recap

Events

May 1, 2025

April Events Recap

Linda Zhou - Marketing Manager
Linda Zhou
Quarterly Product Update: Spring

Product

April 28, 2025

Quarterly Product Update: Spring

Dani Lang - Product Marketing
Dani Lang
Accelerating Real-Time ML with Symbolic Python Interpreter

Engineering

April 1, 2025

Symbolic Python Interpreter

Nathan Fenner - Software Engineer
Nathan Fenner
How Apartment List uses Chalk to power personalized apartment recommendations

Customer Stories

March 20, 2025

Apartment List Customer Story

Dani Lang - Product Marketing
Dani Lang
Verisoul stops fake accounts with Chalk’s real‑time feature platform

Customer Stories

February 25, 2025

Verisoul Customer Story

Dani Lang - Product Marketing
Dani Lang
Quarterly Product Update: Winter

Product

December 13, 2024

Quarterly Product Update: Winter

Melanie Chen - Forward Deployed Engineer
Melanie Chen
Vital predicts hospital wait times with Chalk’s feature platform

Customer Stories

October 30, 2024

Vital Customer Story

Alexandra Kane - VP of Revenue
Alexandra Kane
Quarterly Product Update: Fall

Product

September 18, 2024

Quarterly Product Update: Fall

Alexandra Kane - VP of Revenue
Alexandra Kane
Chalk wins Best Technology at The GenAI Collective's Demo Day

Events

August 30, 2024

Chalk wins at GenAI Demo Day

Alexandra Kane - VP of Revenue
Alexandra Kane
Deep Dive: Building PartiQL Support at Chalk

Engineering

August 22, 2024

Building PartiQL Support at Chalk

Bill Qin - Software Engineer
Bill Qin
Quarterly Product Update: Summer

Product

July 19, 2024

Quarterly Product Update: Summer

Alexandra Kane - VP of Revenue
Alexandra Kane
Feature Store at Work

Product

July 11, 2024

Feature Store at Work

Melanie Chen - Forward Deployed Engineer
Melanie Chen
Introducing Chalk NY

Announcements

July 1, 2024

Introducing Chalk NY

Alexandra Kane - VP of Revenue
Alexandra Kane
What is a Feature Store?

Engineering

June 4, 2024

What is a Feature Store?

Melanie Chen - Forward Deployed Engineer
Samuel Mignot - Forward Deployed Engineer
Melanie Chen, Samuel Mignot
Chalk and Databricks selected as leading ML / AI Platforms in 2024 CB Insights AI 100

Events

April 2, 2024

CB Insights AI 100

Elliot Marx - Co-Founder
Elliot Marx
Announcing our $10M seed to accelerate machine learning

Announcements

December 12, 2023

$10M Seed Round to Accelerate ML

Marc Freed-Finnegan - Co-Founder & CEO
Marc Freed-Finnegan
Chalk Completes SOC 2 Type 1 Report

Announcements

March 12, 2023

Chalk Completes SOC 2 Type 1 Report

Andrew Moreland - Co-Founder
Andrew Moreland

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