Sponsorship Opportunities

Thousands of Microsoft engineers use, contribute to, and release open source every day across every platform, from the cloud to client operating systems, programming languages and more. We recognize that multiple projects under the NumFOCUS umbrella are included in those projects that we use on a regular basis for various data science workloads across the company. As such, we are happy to support NumFOCUS as a Partner to help support its projects to further their goals.

Google believes that open source is good for everyone. By being open and freely available, it enables and encourages collaboration and the development of technology.

CVS Health is America’s leading health solutions company delivering care in ways no one else can. Our purpose is simple and clear: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. We are working to transform health care through innovations that make quality care more accessible, easier to use, less expensive and patient focused. We employ thousands of data scientists and engineers who support the broader organization (Aetna health care business, retail, and pharmacy services) by embedding deep insights into key decision processes and focusing on our biggest, most complex problems.

Bloomberg is building the world's most trusted information network for financial professionals. Our 8,000+ engineers are dedicated to advancing and building new systems for the Bloomberg Terminal to solve complex, real-world problems. ​We trust our teams to choose the right technologies for the job, and, at Bloomberg, the answer is often Python. We employ an active community of 4,500+ Python developers who have their hands in everything from financial analytics and data science to contributing to open source technologies like Project Jupyter. Bloomberg is proud to be a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software Foundation and host of many Python community events around the world. Learn more at TechAtBloomberg.com/python.

Hopsworks Feature Store is an enterprise and python friendly Machine Learning platform for the full lifecycle of AI projects. It offers best in-class performances and an effective collaborative layer for all data teams, allowing them to leverage any data source for any application, at any performance level and across any environment.

Taipy meets the challenge of rapidly transforming a bare algorithm into a full-fledged Decision Support System for end-users! We provide the next generation of Open-Source Software that enables Python Developers to quickly build interactive end-user applications.

Taipy is composed of:
-Taipy GUI for the development of highly interactive GUIs ready for production
-Taipy Core provides facilities for smart pipeline management, data caching as well as scenario and cycle management

Shopify is a leading provider of essential internet infrastructure for commerce, offering trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered for reliability, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere. Proudly founded in Ottawa, Shopify powers millions of merchants in more than 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, Heinz, Tupperware, FTD, Netflix, FIGS, and many more.

BlockScience is a complex systems engineering firm. Our work leverages open source tooling to design, test, monitor, operate, and govern digital infrastructures. Our in-house research teams cover an array of topics ranging from developing software to increase the reproducibility of data science work, to designing algorithmic policies for participatory governance of digital platforms.

Two Sigma is a financial sciences company. We combine rigorous inquiry, data analysis, and invention to solve the toughest challenges across financial services. We use Open Source Software, and we’re passionate about giving back to the programming community. We want to make sure that the OSS projects that we and so many others rely on will still be functional far into the future. Supporting OSS can take many forms: making substantial contributions to projects we use regularly, open sourcing tools we’ve developed in house, and financially sponsoring non-profits that contribute to a healthy open source ecosystem.

Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools for AI and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP as well as Prodigy, a modern scriptable annotation tool for machine learning developers.

Cubist Systematic Strategies is the systematic investing business of Point72. We deploy systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, driven by our passion to understand the world around us and fueled by unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.

Coiled is the scalable Dask Cloud platform. Coiled scales Python to the cloud for data professionals. Coiled has hosted more than 100M tasks for data professionals, scientists, and researchers around the globe including Capital One, Anthem Health, and the Air Force to solve challenges in business, research, and science. Founded by the initial author of Dask, Coiled is on a mission to create a platform that gives Data Scientists the power of the cloud and machine learning, freeing them from today’s limitations so they can solve important problems.

Posit helps people understand and improve the world through data. We build tools that enable robust and reproducible data analysis through a code-first approach, paired with tools that make it easy to share insights. Our core software is open source, freely available to anyone. Our professional software equips individuals and teams to develop and share their work at scale.

Covalent is an open source Pythonic workflow orchestration platform that enables users to scale their AI/ML/HPC workloads from their laptop to any compute infrastructure or cloud with a single line of code.

The power of prediction starts with HumanSignal. We build open-source software to help people do what they are best at – give meaning. Data fills our modern world. It flows inside organizations, customer interactions, product usage, environmental research, healthcare imaging, and beyond. Data needs to be accurate, comprehensive, and absent of bias to make meaningful and impactful predictions through Machine Learning and AI. To make the best predictions, internal teams with domain expertise should be responsible for annotating and curating data. Data labeling is a process of real people giving meaning to the information they see on the screen. At HumanSignal, we help you take your data labeling to the next level.

SurrealDB is a modern cloud-native multi-model database built by practitioners who have been using various Databases. It simplifies building apps with features like SurrealQL, Live Queries, Search, Change Data Capture, and Machine Learning. It makes it easier to build experiences on your data, be it for a software developer or a data scientist.

Quansight is a data, science, and engineering firm that specializes in solving complex, data-related problems by leveraging the open source software at the foundation of AI and machine learning. Quansight is led by Travis Oliphant, who founded Anaconda, NumFOCUS, PyData, and authored or led the creation of foundational Python ecosystem packages NumPy, SciPy, Numba, and Conda.

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