10 Cool Machine Learning Startups To Watch - InformationWeek

Lukas Biewald, a former lead data scientist at Yahoo, founded CrowdFlower to build training data for machine learning. Training data is used by data scientists to teach their algorithms to learn. The company website says it is focused on making data useful by helping teams collect, clean, and label data at scale. Crowdflower raised a new 10 million round of funding in June 2016 that included Microsoft as an investor. The funding will be used to fuel adoption of CrowdFlower AI, launched last year, which enables machine learning algorithms to go beyond prediction to provide judgment on how likely the prediction is to be correct -- known as a confidence level.