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Gretel.ai (Gretel Labs, Inc.) is a service that helps developers generating synthetic data. Gretel.ai provides and maintains gretel-synthetics, an open-source library on Github that uses machine learning create artificial datasets, plus its own features. It provides access control and several collaboration features such as publish-subscribe APIs, and wikis for each data project. Headquartered in California, Gretel.ai was founded in 2019.

History
Gretel.ai was founded in September 2019 by Alex Watson, John Myers, Ali Golshan, and Laszlo Bock. The Gretel.ai service was developed using the Tensorflow machine learning platform, AWS Kinesis for streaming, and Redis as an in-memory data store. In 2020, Gretel announced a $3.5M seed raise led by Moonshots Capital, Greylock Ventures, and Village Global, valuing the company at $20M.

Services
Gretel.ai Development on the Gretel.ai platform began in January 2020. The site was launched in August 2020 as a public beta release, that can be signed up for using a Github or Google mail address.

Scope
The main purpose of the Gretel.ai console is to facilitate collaborating and sharing datasets between developers, including data cataloging, identification of personal data, and workflows to enable generating synthetic, anonymized versions of datasets with differential privacy guarantees, or to help developers create more balanced and ethically fair datasets by using synthetic data to boost minority classes in data.

Sridhar Ramaswamy, the former SVP of Google Ads and currently partner at Greylock stated: “At Google, we had to build our own tools to enable our developers to safely access data, because the tools that we needed didn’t exist".