Trusted by over 25% of Fortune 50 Companies, Sama Provides High-Quality Training Data, Validation & Annotation Solutions for AI & Machine Learning Models.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 1001-5000
Total raised: $14.8M
Founded date: 2008
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Ridge Vent... | ridge.vc |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 20.11.2019 | Series A | $14.8M | - |
Mentions in press and media 20
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| 01.04.2026 | Kenya: Govt Launches Probe Into Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Over Privacy Concerns | Nairobi — The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has confirmed it has launched an investigation into privacy concerns surrounding the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses following a request from digital rights group The Oversight Lab ... |
| 12.06.2025 | "The Algorithm Increases Harmful Content's Reach, Raising Exposure and the Risk of Real-world Harm" | CIVICUS speaks with Mercy Mutemi, a Kenyan tech lawyer at Nzili and Sumbi Advocates and legal counsel for petitioners challenging Facebook’s role in hate and violence in Ethiopia. On 3 April, Kenya’s High Court allowed a landmark lawsuit ag... |
| 07.06.2024 | Commentary: AI’s hidden workers are stuck in dead-end jobs | LONDON: You may have heard that revolutionary artificial intelligence sits on old-world foundations. The supply chain churning out generative AI tools like ChatGPT has highly paid executives and researchers at the top, and at the bottom, wo... |
| 05.11.2021 | A Chinese COVID Delta variant vaccine maker gets a boost | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. Even while stay-at-home stocks are getting a beating (ahem! Peloton), make no mistake, the world ... |
| 04.11.2021 | Sama taps into $70M to build ‘first end-to-end AI platform’ for training data | Products developed to manage artificial intelligence data are still largely fragmented, solving one problem at a time for developers, but not the entire life cycle. Enter Sama, a company providing high-quality training data that powers AI t... |
| 19.10.2020 | Salesforce Ventures Launches Second $100 Million Impact Fund | SalesforceRawpixel Ltd. |
| 25.01.2020 | Leila Janah, CEO and founder of AI startup Samasource, passes away at 37 | Leila Janah, the founder and CEO of machine learning training data startup Samasource, passed away at the age of 37 due to complications from Epithelioid Sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, according to a statement from the company. She focuse... |
| 25.01.2020 | Samasource CEO Leila Janah dead at 37 | More On: silicon valley FTC accuses Big Tech of using merger 'loopholes' to dodge antitrust scrutiny Netanyahu reportedly offered lucrative Oracle board seat by Larry Ellison Silicon Valley finds remote work is easier to begin than end Eliz... |
| 25.01.2020 | Samasource CEO Leila Janah dead at 37 | More On: silicon valley Startup Bolt's valuation tanks after founder slams Silicon Valley 'mob bosses' Texas gov cozies up to Big Tech while publicly scorning social media 'Daddy Elon' or 'racist demagogue'?: Elon Musk divides Twitter staff... |
| 24.01.2020 | Samasource CEO Leila Janah passes away at 37 | The startup community has lost another moral leader today. Leila Janah, a serial entrepreneur who was the CEO and founder of machine learning training data company Samasource, passed away at the age of 37 due to complications from epithelio... |
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