Hopsworks AI Lakehouse and Feature Store

Hopsworks AB is a Swedish company founded in 2017 with offices in Stockholm, Palo Alto and London. It develops an AI lakehouse and ML platform whose centre is a feature store for real-time machine learning, so teams can reuse features across models.

The platform provides a feature store with low-latency online retrieval (listed as under 1 ms, powered by RonDB), lakehouse access to Delta, Iceberg and Hudi tables, an MLOps layer for tracking, registry and deployment, and compute management with Ray, KServe and vLLM. It can run as SaaS or sovereign, air-gapped and on-premises deployments. Customers listed include Zalando, Ericsson, Saab and Karolinska Institutet.

• Feature store: online and offline feature serving with sub-millisecond online retrieval listed.
• AI lakehouse: reads Delta, Iceberg and Hudi tables, with native Iceberg support in version 5.0.
• MLOps: experiment tracking, model registry and deployment pipelines.
• Agent tooling: browser terminal for coding agents, headless agent jobs and agent deployments with OpenTelemetry tracing.
• Analytics: multi-tenant Trino and Apache Superset services.
• Connectors: Spark, Flink, Pandas, DuckDB, MongoDB and Databricks Unity Catalog.

• A Vietnamese bank sharing credit and fraud features across scoring models.
• A telecom operator running churn and offer-recommendation models on a common feature layer.
• A government data centre deploying ML on an air-gapped, on-premises platform.

• Sovereign options (air-gapped, on-premises or hybrid) suit regulated or government users with data control needs.
• Reusing features across models cuts duplicated engineering; the site cites an 80% cost reduction claim.
• Native Delta, Iceberg and Hudi access avoids copying lakehouse data.
• A free tier lets teams evaluate before committing.

Enterprises moving ML into production need shared feature infrastructure, and lakehouse formats such as Iceberg are becoming common storage layers. Data sovereignty is also a growing concern for public-sector and financial users. In Vietnam, banks and telecom operators building real-time scoring and personalisation can use such a platform to standardise features.

Hopsworks AB, founded 2017; offices in Stockholm, Palo Alto and London. Raised 6.5 million USD in July 2023 from investors including Vendep Capital, Industrifonden, Inventure, Frontline and AI Seed.