Playment

Mechanical Turk for enterprises.

YC-W17B2B -> Engineering, Product and DesignEarlyFunded

What Playment does

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination."​ Playment is a fully managed data labeling platform generating training data for computer vision models at scale. We empower companies in the Autonomous Vehicle, Drones, Mapping, and similar spaces with high precision annotation services - No matter how complex. We’re helping companies and research institutions like Drive AI, Starsky Robotics, CYNGN, and UIUC focus on their core areas of development. Our platform is powered by a trained workforce of 300,000+ users and managed by our human intelligence experts who build your tasks and deliver results with assured quality. Support Annotation types: Bounding Boxes, Cuboids, Polygons, and Polylines, Point annotations, Segmentation(coming soon) for both image and video data types. Interested to hear more? please check out https://playment.io Use Cases we worked on: Autonomous vehicles, drones, satellite imagery, precision agriculture, Retail / eCommerce, sports analytics

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Who runs it

Ajinkya Malasane
Akshay Lal
Siddharth Mall

Funding and finances

Total raised$2.3M
Last stageEarly Stage
Rounds3
Last raised2017-11-21
Investors
Elevation CapitalMax AltmanRyan PetersenSparkland CapitalY Combinator

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