DefinedCrowd's next-gen platform solves the AI data acquisition problem

With all the hype surrounding artificial intelligence, you would be forgiven for thinking that developing the algorithms powering deep learning are where the toughest challenges in the industry are. The actual challenge for most algorithms though is not their mathematics, but rather their inputs -- collating high-quality data that is well-labeled and allows for the training of these models as quickly and efficiently as possible. That's where DefinedCrowd comes in. The company, which is based in Seattle and Portugal, was founded in 2015 by Daniela Braga, a data scientist and natural language processing expert, and Amy Du, who has since moved on from the company to start a global entrepreneurship network. We've talked about the company back when it participated in Microsoft's startup accelerator and also when it was featured in the Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt New York this past year.