Posit

Boston, MA, USA
Founded 2009

Posit is a public benefit corporation that creates open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication. Their mission is to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge for everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research.

Last Updated: March 13, 2026

Current Valuation

$166.4M

as of June 17, 2022 (Source)

Funding Summary

$166.4M

Total reported funding

Key People

J.J. Allaire
Founder & Executive Chair, Posit PBCFounder
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Tareef Kawaf
President & CEO, Posit PBC
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Core OSS Projects

Positron, a next-generation data science IDE

Make awesome display tables using Python

Shiny for Python

R formatter and language server

Data validation made beautiful and powerful

Ark, an R kernel

License: MIT

Your friendly guide to building LLM chat apps in Python with less effort and more clarity.

License: MIT

A Collection of Helper Functions for the great-tables Package.

License: MIT

Chat with your data in R and Python

License: MIT

An R package for interacting with the Posit Connect server API

Chat UI component for Shiny

License: MIT

Easy and Powerful Webservers in R

Templates for Shiny for Python

License: MIT

Business Information

Industries

Software

Technologies

Open Source
Data Science
Python
R

Sectors

Enterprise

Licenses

MIT

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