According to the company, Insight Partners led the investment with participation from Mubadala Capital. Bloomberg reported ...

Anaconda, a provider of open-source Python software for data science and AI, has raised more than $150 million in a Series C ...

To provide Python in Excel locally, Anaconda used Microsoft’s existing Excel plugin capabilities combined with their own technologies. They used PyScript, a Python-on-WebAssembly (WASM) technology, to ...

And the flavor of Python supported by SQL Server 2017 is -- you guessed it -- Anaconda. These integrations work both ways, too: a build of Microsoft R Open is included within Anaconda.