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Encord lands new cash to grow its data dev tools for AI | TechCrunch

Aug 14, 2024 - news.bensbites.com
Encord, a data development platform for companies preparing data for AI models, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Next47, bringing its total funding to $50 million. The funds will be used to double the size of Encord’s product, engineering, and AI research teams, and expand its San Francisco offices. The company, founded by Eric Landau and Ulrik Hansen, aims to ease the burden of data labeling and annotation, a process essential for training AI models.

Encord's platform allows enterprises to prepare their data for AI and assess how effectively that data supports their models. The company currently has 120 customers, including Philips, Synthesia, Cedars-Sinai, and Northwell Health, and has contracts with unnamed military and government agencies. Despite increasing its revenue fourfold over the last year, the company is taking a conservative approach to capital deployment due to broader market conditions.

Key takeaways:

  • Encord, a data development platform for AI models, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Next47, bringing its total funding to $50 million.
  • The new funding will be used to double the size of Encord’s product, engineering and AI research teams over the next six months and expand the company's San Francisco offices.
  • Encord's platform allows teams to explore and visualize datasets, compare the performance of different models trained on the same sets, and detect model accuracy issues.
  • The company has 120 customers, including Philips, Synthesia, Cedars-Sinai and Northwell Health, and has contracts with unnamed military and government agencies.
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