However, the company has faced criticism over its treatment of data annotators, with complaints about communication issues, unclear expectations, and low pay. Despite competition in the AI data management space, SuperAnnotate has recently raised $36 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to over $53 million. The funds will be used for team augmentation, product R&D, and customer base expansion. The company aims to build a platform that can adapt to enterprises' evolving needs and offer extensive customization in data fine-tuning.
Key takeaways:
- SuperAnnotate, a company founded by Vahan Petrosyan and Tigran Petrosyan, provides a platform for managing and organizing AI training data sets, with clients including Databricks and Canva.
- The platform allows users to connect data from local sources and the cloud, collaborate on data projects, compare model performance, and deploy models. It also provides access to a marketplace of crowd-sourced workers for data annotation tasks.
- SuperAnnotate has faced criticism from data annotators over communication issues, unclear expectations, and low pay, but the company claims it pays fair market rates and its demands are industry standard.
- The company recently raised $36 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to over $53 million. The funds will be used for team expansion, product R&D, and customer base growth.