# Press — Scott Clark

## Meet Scott Clark, an OSU Science Alum Who Built a $30M AI Startup

**2025-05-14** · *Oregon State University College of Science* · [Link](https://science.oregonstate.edu/impact/2025/05/meet-scott-clark-an-osu-science-alum-who-built-a-30m-ai-startup)

> Clark's latest venture, Distributional Inc., is focused on a fast-growing challenge in today's AI landscape: reliability. It's already raised $30 million and grown to a team of 30.

## Distributional: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Scott Clark About The Enterprise AI Testing Company

**2025-03-31** · *Pulse 2.0* · [Link](https://pulse2.com/distributional-profile-scott-clark-interview/)

> Our platform is designed to bridge the gap in AI testing, providing enterprise teams with the tools they need to proactively detect and address risks throughout the AI lifecycle.

## Distributional Raises $19M to Automate AI Model and App Testing

**2024-10-08** · *TechCrunch* · [Link](https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/08/distributional-raises-19m-to-automate-ai-model-and-app-testing/)

> Distributional, an AI testing platform, has secured $19 million in Series A funding led by Two Sigma Ventures. The company was established by Scott Clark, who previously served as Intel's general manager of AI software.

## Distributional Raises $11M Seed Round Led by Andreessen Horowitz to Make AI Safe, Secure and Reliable

**2023-12-14** · *BusinessWire* · [Link](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231214878185/en/Distributional-Raises-11M-Seed-Round-led-by-Andreessen-Horowitz-to-Make-AI-Safe-Secure-and-Reliable)

> Distributional secured an $11M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Operator Stack, Point72 Ventures, SV Angel, Two Sigma, and 40+ angel investors.

## Power Consumption and AI Are Key Priorities for Dell and Intel in the Supercomputing Space

**2022-11-18** · *SiliconANGLE / theCUBE* · [Link](https://siliconangle.com/2022/11/18/power-consumption-and-ai-are-key-priorities-for-dell-and-intel-in-the-supercomputing-space-sc22/)

> Coverage of the SC22 theCUBE panel with Scott Clark (then VP & GM at Intel) and David Schmidt (Dell Technologies) on Intel's oneAPI open-ecosystem strategy and the future of accelerated computing for AI.

## Meet a Science Grad: Scott Clark

**2020-12-18** · *Oregon State University College of Science* · [Link](https://science.oregonstate.edu/impact/2020/12/meet-a-science-grad-scott-clark)

> Clark credits OSU's strong science faculty and innovative programs with laying the foundation for his Ph.D., which he turned into a startup.

## Intel to Acquire SigOpt to Scale AI Productivity and Performance

**2020-10-29** · *Intel Corporation* · [Link](https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1425/intel-to-acquire-sigopt-to-scale-ai-productivity-and)

> By combining our AI optimization software with Intel's decades-long leadership in AI computing and machine learning performance, we will be able to unlock new capabilities for data scientists.

## Intel Acquires SigOpt, a Specialist in Modeling Optimization, to Boost Its AI Business

**2020-10-29** · *TechCrunch* · [Link](https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/29/intel-acquires-sigopt-a-specialist-in-modeling-optimization-to-boost-its-ai-business/)

> Intel announced an acquisition of SigOpt, a company specializing in modeling optimization technology. Co-founders Scott Clark and Patrick Hayes and their team joined Intel.

## Young Alumni Award Winner Makes Forbes' 30 Under 30 List

**2016-11-23** · *Oregon State University College of Science* · [Link](https://science.oregonstate.edu/IMPACT/2016/11/young-science-alumni-award-winner-featured-forbes-30-30)

> Scott Clark, a physics and mathematics alumnus from Oregon State University (Class of 2008), received the 2016 College of Science Young Alumni Award and was recognized among Forbes' 30 Under 30.

## Cornellians Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 List

**2016-01-15** · *Cornell Chronicle* · [Link](https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/01/cornellians-named-forbes-30-under-30-list)

> Scott Clark, who earned both a Master's degree and Ph.D. from Cornell, was recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the Enterprise Tech category as co-founder and CEO of SigOpt.

## Using MOE to Optimize an A/B Testing Experiment Framework

**2014-10-15** · *Yelp Engineering Blog* · [Link](https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2014/10/using-moe-the-metric-optimization-engine-to-optimize-an-ab-testing-experiment-framework.html)

> Follow-up on applying the Metric Optimization Engine to optimize A/B testing frameworks, demonstrating practical improvements in experiment efficiency at Yelp.

## Big Data's High-Priests of Algorithms

**2014-08-08** · *Wall Street Journal* · [Link](https://www.wsj.com/articles/academic-researchers-find-lucrative-work-as-big-data-scientists-1407543088)

> Academia is slow and only a few people see your work. At Yelp, I can be pushing out experiments that affect hundreds of millions of people. When I make a small change to the Yelp website, I have a bigger impact.

## Introducing MOE: A New Open Source Machine Learning Service for Optimal Experiment Design

**2014-07-24** · *Yelp Engineering Blog* · [Link](https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2014/07/introducing-moe-metric-optimization-engine-a-new-open-source-machine-learning-service-for-optimal-ex.html)

> MOE is an open-source machine learning tool for solving black-box optimization problems using Bayesian Global Optimization algorithms and Gaussian Processes.

## Scott Clark Ph.D. '12 Brings His Work with ORIE Professor Frazier to Yelp and the Open Source World

**2014-06-01** · *Cornell ORIE* · [Link](https://www.orie.cornell.edu/spotlights/scott-clark-phd-12-brings-his-work-orie-professor-frazier-yelp-and-open-source-world)

> As one of the first Ph.D.'s hired by Yelp, Scott Clark built a black-box optimization system, Metrics Optimization Engine (MOE), developed in collaboration with ORIE Professor Peter Frazier.

## DEIXIS Magazine Feature: DOE CSGF Fellow Profile

**2011-09-01** · *DEIXIS Magazine (DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship)* · [Link](https://www.krellinst.org/doecsgf/docs/deixis/deixis2011.pdf)

> Substantive profile of Scott as a DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow, covering the dissertation pivot from computational fluid dynamics to metagenomics during the 2009 Los Alamos National Laboratory practicum.

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