Scale AI is an artificial intelligence company making an API for validating and training data for applications that is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2016 by Alexander Wang. Their API includes the following data features: Sensor Fusion (annotation for LIDAR/RADAR/camera data), semantic segmentation, 2D boxes/polygons, video, 3D cuboids, lines & splines, keypoints, and data categorization.
On August 22, 2016 Scale AI completed their seed funding round with $120,000 in seed funding from Y Combinator.
On May 23, 2017 Scale AI completed their series A funding round with $4.5 million in funding from Accel (lead investor), Y Combinator, Arena Ventures, Nat Friedman, Ilya Sukhar, Guillermo Rauch, Greg Brockman, and Charlie Cheever.
On August 7, 2018 Scale AI completed their series B funding round with $18 million in funding from Index Ventures (lead investor), Y Combinator, Accel, Justin Kan, and Drew Houston.
On August 5, 2019 Scale AI completed their series C funding round with $100 million in funding from Founder Fund (lead investor), Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, Index Ventures, Coatue Management, Accel, Mike Krieger, Kevin Systrom, and Adam D'Angelo.
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Funding rounds
People
Albert Ni
Investor
Alexandr Wang
Founder
Atra Kermani
Employee
Chan Kwon
Employee
Charlie Cheever
Investor
Daniel Levine
Investor
David Kinsella
Employee
Erik Torenberg
Investor
Greg Brockman
Investor
Guido Leandro Maliandi
Employee
Guillermo Rauch
Investor
Ilya Sukhar
Investor
Jeff Arnold
Investor
Jessica McKellar
Investor
Jonathan Swanson
Investor
Liz Wessel
Investor
Monica Bretón
Employee
Nat Friedman
Investor
Nathaniel Herman
Employee
Richard Ni
Employee
Ross Boucher
Investor
Steven Salka
Employee
Suehee Lee
Employee
Tim Abbott
Investor
Viktoriya Pavlenko
Employee