Making high performance computing easy and accessible for everyone

Polars started with a simple goal: make data processing faster and simpler on a single machine. Today, that same mission drives the company behind it, bringing speed and simplicity to data teams of every size.

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GitHub stars40k+
employees20+

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Our story

Built in the open

Polars started in 2020 as an open source project. Our co-founder Ritchie Vink wanted a faster, easier way to work with data on a single machine, so he built one, one weekend at a time.

Word spread. Other developers started using it, then contributing to it, and within a couple of years Polars had a real community behind it, built entirely in the open.

Polars BV exists to give that project the engineering resources and stability to keep building. Open source stays free, forever. The company is there to support it, not replace it.

Leadership

Leadership

Portrait of Ritchie Vink

Ritchie Vink

BDFL & Co-founder

Founded the Polars open-source project in 2020, and still shapes its technical direction today.

Ritchie Vink on LinkedIn
Portrait of Chiel Peters

Chiel Peters

Co-founder

Previously CTO of Xomnia, with years of experience leading data teams before co-founding Polars.

Chiel Peters on LinkedIn
Community

The people who use it are the people who build it

Discord

Real-time help and discussion, with over 5,000 members already in it.

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Open community discussion, questions, and the odd hot take.

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Quote

Quote

“Standardizing around Polars has been a huge win for us. The speed and memory benefits have been obvious. The best part though is how easy it is to read and write. We are all speaking the same language and it's Polars.”

Nelson G.Engineering and ML Lead @ Double River
Careers

Help us build the future of data processing

We're a small, distributed team solving hard problems in the open, and we're always looking for people who want to do the same.

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Map of Amsterdam, home of the Polars office at De Boelelaan 7

Our Amsterdam office

Polars BV
De Boelelaan 7
1083 HJ
Amsterdam
The Netherlands