DefinedCrowd operates a smart data curation platform and a contributor community (Neevo) that supplies labeled data for NLP, voice recognition, and computer vision via APIs and a web interface. The company leverages more than 290,000 contributors in 195 countries who supply over 500,000 samples per day, and supports more than 50 languages and 79 dialects with claimed labeling accuracy up to 98%. Its tools allow customers to filter contributors by demographics and language proficiency and offer specialized workflows, templates, and off-the-shelf solutions as well as the ability to upload proprietary data. DefinedCrowd serves enterprise customers across customer service, automotive, retail, and healthcare, counting clients such as BMW, Mastercard, Nuance, and Yahoo Japan. The company reported 656% year-over-year revenue growth last year and has a staff of over 100 across offices in Portugal, Seattle, and Japan. DefinedCrowd plans to double headcount to 500 and open additional R&D labs by 2021. DefinedCrowd offers a SaaS platform (Web API and Web UI) that combines human intelligence, automated tools, and machine learning to collect, enrich and structure data for AI and ML models. Its capabilities focus on speech and NLP and support use cases including virtual assistants, customer review analysis, autonomous vehicles, content categorization, pattern recognition, and surveillance systems. The company supports 46 languages via its Neevo community of 45,000+ skilled members and serves customers such as BMW, Mastercard, Nuance, and Yahoo Japan. Founded in 2015 by CEO Dr. Daniela Braga and headquartered in Seattle, the company plans to use new funding to develop product offerings, expand the team, and increase global market share. Financially, DefinedCrowd completed an $11.8M Series A, strengthening its balance sheet for growth. DefinedCrowd provides a SaaS platform that combines machine learning and data science with crowdsourcing to help enterprises improve quality, scalability, and time-to-market for AI and natural language processing applications. The company operates a global crowdsourcing audience across more than 36 countries covering over 30 languages and 100+ dialects. Led by CEO Dr. Daniela Braga and CTO Dr. João Freitas, DefinedCrowd also maintains a research and development center in Lisbon, Portugal. The company is based in Kirkland, Washington. DefinedCrowd raised $1.1M in seed funding from Sony Innovation Fund, Amazon Alexa Fund and Portugal Ventures. It intends to use the proceeds to accelerate development of its SaaS platform.

Total raised

$63M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

May 2020