Solving Million (not Billion) Dollar Business Problems with AI CrowdFlower

Today we announced our recent 10M financing led by Canvas Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Microsoft to fuel the adoption of our new CrowdFlower AI solution. This post explores the "why" and the "what" behind this financing. We wanted to bring the economics of applying AI and Machine Learning within the reach of every business. Why did we think this was the right goal at the right time? It was based on observing two groups – first our own data science customers, second everyone else trying to deploy Machine Learning. For the past few years we've had a front row seat seeing the emergence of the data scientist role inside companies large and small.