Cleanlab is a privately held company focused on Data Center Artificial Intelligence (DCAI) headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Company Overview
- Established: Cleanlab was founded in 2021 by Dr. Curtis Northcutt, Dr. Anish Athalye and Dr. Jonas Mueller.
- Main business: Cleanlab specializes in improving the quality of datasets used by companies to help them diagnose and fix various data problems. Its software solutions are designed to support machine learning operations that help find, quantify and learn from data through clean labeling.
- Team Size: The company employs approximately 41 people, with Curtis Northcutt serving as the company's Chief Executive Officer.
Core Products and Services
- Cleanlab Studio: This is the core product of Cleanlab, which handles the entire data quality and data-centric AI pipeline in a single framework for analytics and machine learning tasks.Cleanlab Studio has the following features:
- Automatic optimization of data sets: Automatically optimize data sets without programming.
- Identify and fix data issues: e.g. outliers, fuzzy data, etc.
- Finding and fixing labeling issues: e.g. mislabeled data.
- Automated Machine Learning (Auto ML): Automatically train and tune robust models with the world's most advanced AutoML technology. The automation pipeline accomplishes all machine learning tasks, including data preprocessing, base model fine-tuning, hyperparameter tuning and model selection.
- Data Analysis and Exploration: Provide analysis, summarization, and exploration of specific issues within the dataset, such as finding the category in the dataset with the most labeled issues, exploring the full heatmap of suggested corrections for all categories in the dataset, and more.
Financing
- seed round: Cleanlab raised $5 million in seed funding.
- Series A financing: In October 2023, Cleanlab closed a Series A round of financing, raising $25 million, bringing the total of the two rounds to $30 million. Major investors include TQ Ventures and Databricks Ventures.
Markets and competition
- positioning (marketing): Cleanlab's business model focuses on providing enterprise-oriented software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings that help organizations improve their data processing capabilities through subscription or licensing of software products.
- competition: Cleanlab's competitors include other tech companies involved in AI and machine learning, such as Landing AI, Spell, and Humanloop, which are also developing technologies designed to enhance machine learning and data manipulation.
Company Advantage
- technological innovation: Cleanlab leads the industry in automated data remediation and automated machine learning technology.
- Efficient solutions: Cleanlab Studio provides a full chain of automated solutions from data diagnosis to model training, improving the efficiency and accuracy of data processing.
- Investor Recognition: The success of multiple funding rounds demonstrates investors' recognition of Cleanlab's technology and market potential.
Cleanlab is an innovative and marketable company in the field of artificial intelligence in the data center, and its Cleanlab Studio product provides organizations with efficient, automated data processing and machine learning solutions. As AI technology continues to evolve, Cleanlab is expected to achieve even greater market success in the future.