Our mission is a seamless data processing experience on any scale
Contact usOur story
Polars is a DataFrame library engineered to process data at any scale. It combines exceptional performance with an expressive API, delivering a unified solution that scales from local development to production workloads handling terabytes of data.
What began as an effort to optimize data processing has evolved into a mission to provide a Unified DataFrame API for every scale. Today, Polars is a key component of the modern data stack, trusted in production by organizations worldwide to power performance-critical pipelines.
Founded in 2023, Polars Inc. provides the engineering resources and long-term stability to accelerate development of the Polars ecosystem. Our company structure ensures we can dedicate focused effort to building world-class query engines while maintaining Polars as an open source project that will always remain freely available to the community. Read more about our plans in this blog post.
Our board
Ritchie Vink
BDFL & CO-FOUNDER
Ritchie founded the Polars open source project in 2020. He has an extreme drive to move the industry forward with accessible high performance tooling.
Chiel Peters
CO-FOUNDER
As the previous CTO of Xomnia, Chiel has extensive experience in leading data teams and building data platforms.
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Polars BV
info@polars.tech
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