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It's also because Pydantic has VC money and needs to grow fast now, or else.
by WesolyKubeczek 1y ago
It's also because Pydantic has VC money and needs to grow fast now, or else.
- murkt 1y agoWhat’s the story here, can anyone enlighten me? How can they make money being a Python library? I can stretch my imagination about Astral monetizing their tools, but this one is too difficult
- stephantul 1y agoPydantic (the company) owns logfire, a logging service. There’s a lot of money in logging/observability. The pydantic library itself is not monetizable, as you indicate.
- zo1 1y agoWow really I had no idea. This rabbit hole goes deeper then I expected! In 2022, the project evolved into a commercial entity called Pydantic Services Inc., founded by Samuel Colvin and Adrian Garcia Badaracco, to build products around the open-source library. The company raised $4.7 million in seed funding in February 2023, led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Partech, Irregular Expressions, and other investors. This was followed by a $12.5 million Series A round in October 2024, again led by Sequoia Capital and including Partech Partners, bringing the total funding to approximately $17.2 million across rounds. The Series A funding coincided with the launch of Pydantic Logfire, a commercial observability platform for backend applications, aimed at expanding beyond the core open-source validation framework. As of mid-2025, no additional funding rounds have been publicly reported. https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/16/sequoia-backs-open-source-data-validation-framework-pydantic-to-commercialize-with-cloud-services/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/16/sequoia-backs-open-source-...