When was Explosion founded?

Explosion was founded in 2016 and raised its 1st funding round 5 years after it was founded.

Where is Explosion located?

Explosion is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Which legal entities is Explosion associated with?

Explosion is associated with ExplosionAI GmbH.

How many employees does Explosion have?

As of Jul 01, 2024, the latest employee count at Explosion is 22.

Is Explosion a funded company?

Explosion is a funded company, having raised a total of $***** in its 1st and only funding round, a Series A round on Sep 02, 2021.

When was the latest funding round of Explosion?

Explosion's latest funding was a $***** Series A round on Sep 02, 2021, with participation from 1 investor.

Where does Explosion rank among its competitors?

Explosion ranks 39th amongst 225 active competitors, of which 33 are funded. It stands 17th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was LangChain, which secured $125M in Oct, 2025.

Who are the top competitors of Explosion?

Explosion's top competitors include Hugging Face, LangChain and Replicate. Among them, LangChain secured the most recent funding round in October, 2025.

Explosion - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding, Competitors & Financials

Company Details

Provider of open source libraries for NLP and AI. It offers open source-based developer tools for functional deep learning, training data annotation, and machine learning. It helps developers in building applications that process and understand large volumes of texts. It is built and leverages for information extraction purposes.

Website: explosion.ai
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Email ID: *****@explosion.ai

Key Metrics

Founded Year

2016

Location

Berlin, Germany

Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$6M in 1 round

Latest Funding Round

Series A, Sep 02, 2021, $*****

Investors

SignalFire

Ranked

39^th among 225 active competitors

Employee Count

22 as on Jul 01, 2024

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Explosion is associated with 1 legal entity given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count	Documents
ExplosionAI GmbH CIN: HRB181081 , Germany, Active	Dec 31, 2015	-	-

Explosion has raised a total funding of $6M over 1 round. Its latest funding round was a Series A round on Sep 02, 2021 for $*****. 1 investor participated in its latest round. Explosion has 1 institutional investor.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Explosion:

Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
Sep 02, 2021	7726811	Series A	1556183	2911930	1443421	9211956

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The founders of Explosion are Ines Montani and Matthew Honnibal.

Here are the details of Explosion's key team members:

Ines Montani: Co-Founder & CEO of Explosion and founder of 2 other companies, Prodigy and Thinc.
Contact Info: 1 email address
Matthew Honnibal: Co-Founder of Explosion and founder of 2 other companies, Prodigy and Thinc.
Contact Info: 1 email address

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Explosion's employee count trend

Explosion has 22 employees as of Jul 24. Here is Explosion's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Explosion include Hugging Face, LangChain and Replicate. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Explosion, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	Hugging Face 2016, Paris (France), Series D	Platform offering collaborative tools for sharing and deploying machine learning models	$400M	Lux Capital, Addition & 32 others	75/100
2nd	LangChain 2022, San Francisco (United States), Series C	Developer of tools for building, testing, and deploying AI agent applications	$260M	IVP, Benchmark & 10 others	68/100
3rd	Replicate 2018, Berkeley (United States), Acquired	Provider of a cloud-based open-source platform for machine learning models	$52.5M	Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital & 6 others	67/100
4th	Flower 2023, Hamburg (Germany), Series A	ML framework for federated learning	$24.1M	Felicis Ventures, Y Combinator & 7 others	60/100
5th	Giotto Technologies 2017, Switzerland, Acquired	ML-based data analysis library solution for medical literature review	$5.02M	Park House Partners, FasterCapital	58/100
6th	Vana 2021, San Francisco (United States), Series A	Open internet for users to own data and AI models	$25M	Paradigm, Coinbase & 4 others	58/100
7th	Iterative AI 2018, San Francisco (United States), Series A	Provider of ML platform	$25M	468 Capital, Locus Ventures & 4 others	55/100
8th	All Hands AI 2024, Pittsburgh (United States), Seed	Open-source software development agent	$5M	Menlo Ventures, Myriad Venture Partners & 6 others	54/100
9th	Featureform 2020, United States, Acquired	Provider of AI-based open-source platform offering data orchestration	$8.1M	Zetta Venture Partners, GreatPoint Ventures ... & 3 others	52/100
10th	Unify 2021, London (United Kingdom), Series A	Web platform tool to integrate AI models, libraries, frameworks, and hardware	$8.5M	Y Combinator, SignalFire & 18 others	51/100
39th	Explosion 2016, Berlin (Germany), Series A	Provider of open source libraries for NLP and AI	$6M	SignalFire	31/100