CrowdFlower raises 10M to combine artificial intelligence with crowdsourced labor

CrowdFlower is announcing that it has raised 10 million in Series D funding. The round was led by Microsoft, with participation from Canvas Ventures and Trinity Ventures. The San Francisco-based company has now raised a total of 38 million, according to CrunchBase. CrowdFlower launched at the TechCrunch50 conference back in 2009, billing itself "labor as a service" tool using platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk to help businesses tap a remote, crowdsourced workforce for mundane tasks like photo moderation. Founder and CEO Lukas Biewald (who I've known and been friendly with since college) said that the company's current focus is on a new artificial intelligence product.