Kaggle is a Google-owned AI and data science platform that hosts competitions, datasets, notebooks, and community resources for developers, researchers, and machine-learning practitioners worldwide. Kaggle's Twitter Score is 36 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #26,641 (top 10%) among 486,621 tracked accounts.
Kaggle was co-founded by Anthony Goldbloom and Ben Hamner and launched in April 2010 as a competition-focused platform for data science. It drew early institutional backing from Khosla Ventures and Index Ventures, who led an approximately $11 million first financing round in 2011, with Max Levchin also participating and taking on the role of chairman. Google confirmed its acquisition of Kaggle at its Cloud Next conference in March 2017.
Kaggle has grown well beyond its competition roots into a broader machine-learning ecosystem, encompassing forums, models, datasets, and notebooks. A 2025 report noted a partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation to make an optimized Wikipedia dataset available on the platform for AI training and machine-learning workflows. Kaggle's account has published 5,684 posts and has 318,993 followers as of September 2026. It has been mentioned by 185 accounts, with 1,177 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Kaggle include 183 founders, 36 angel investors, 33 influencers and 16 VCs. Among them are Andrej Karpathy, Mario Nawfal, Lex Fridman, Ali Yahya, Martin Shkreli and Vinod Khosla.