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Chris Van Pelt (born December 9, 1981 in Spencer, Iowa) is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco, California. In June 2017, Van Pelt founded Weights & Biases—a company building software tools for machine learning—along with Lukas Biewald and Shawn Lewis.

Prior to Weights & Biases, Van Pelt co-founded Figure Eight (formerly CrowdFlower) with Lukas Biewald. Figure Eight was acquired by Appen in March 2019 for $300 million.

Awards and Honors
In 2010, Inc. Magazine included Van Pelt and Biewald on its list of the Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30.

Biewald and Van Pelt launched CrowdFlower as a product of Dolores Labs at TechCrunch50 in 2009, where the company placed as a finalist.