Centific is a frontier AI data foundry company that collects, curates, and/or labels diverse, high-quality data leveraging AI. The team comprises over 150 Ph.D.s, data scientists, and more than 4,000 AI practitioners and engineers who collaborate with 1.8 million vertical domain experts. Valued clients & partners include Amazon/AWS, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, Databricks, Snowflake, Autodesk, PayPal, Expedia, VMware, Lowes, Home Depot, FedEx, Adobe, and > 100+ Fortune 500. Centific’s innovations reduce GenAI costs by up to 80% and accelerate market delivery by 50%, helping organizations unlock significant business value through scalable GenAI applications.Our Solutions: - Responsible & SAFE AI: red teaming/prompt hacking, authoring, ranking/grading, moderation, RLHF- E2E Program Management: guideline creation, designing quality metrics, and implementing automated QA- Data Collection & labeling (CV, AR/VR, Lidar)- Relevance Labeling (e.g. search, ads)- AI-enabled Localization (up to 50% lower costs/efficiency with Flow)- AI/ML (LLM) model training, fine-tuning, and Deployment- Pitaya.AI (Retail AI & Analytics)- Digital Safety (E2E Fraud Protection) - Digital Transformation (Custom Software and Engineering) I always enjoy learning from others. Please reach out via ken.morimoto@centific.com, 415-948-9098 or book a meeting below.

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Proud to back Mage, Copilotkit, Cocomo AI, Boundary ML, A2 Labs (Mako) and others.

MVP is an advisory and investment firm supporting founders. MVP's 200+ pre-seed & seed portfolio has raised over $1B+ in follow-on funding. Fortunate to back Jeeves, Runway, Allstar, Turing, Boostup AI, Outer, Trusted Health, Memora Health, Contra, Hadrian, Akridata, Living Carbon, Cabinet, New Culture, Ergatta, Fightcamp, Headout, 99minutos, Belvo, AtoB, Yassir, Atmos, Statiq, Gilgamesh, Better Meat Co., Dagshub, Picnic Pizza, Diamond Age, Gojom, Blissway, Xona, Simplified, A7, Opensense, Claypot AI, Betr, XDLINX Labs, Cocomo AI, Corvus Robotics, Anagram and others.Later stage (SeriesA+): Skyryse, Density, Dispatch, BillonToOne, Wyre, Palantir, Madison Reed, Omaze, Overtime, FitXR, Elysium Health, Akido Labs, Sami, Barn2Door, LMNT, Perplexity, Mistral, and others.Nothing ventured, nothing gained！

Cobalt Robotics is the largest and only security robotics provider in the world that improves monitoring and judgment while delivering DAY1 ROI (30-50% savings). Cobalt has raised $75M in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, Bloomberg Beta, Promus Ventures, Founders Fund, and others.Also, spent time at Synthetaic, a Microsoft, Booz, and Esri back company building AI to classify and label unstructured dataset using generative AI technologies.

Led BD for strategic accounts. Companies like Toyota, GM, NVIDIA, Samsung, Lyft, and OpenAI leverage Scale toturn raw data into high-quality training data that powers their AI applications.In addition to providing Labeling & Annotation for training data, Scale is developing solutions to meet the broader mission supporting the entire AI development lifecycle. This includes Scale Rapid (Self-Serve platform), Nucleus Data Curation, GIS/mapping solutions, and Models as a Service.

Led strategic accounts. Appen together with Figure Eight (CrowdFlower) is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human and ML annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Built BD strategy on growth marketing team. Enterprises depend on Algorithmia's (acq Datarobot) AI Layer to run their Machine Learning models efficiently and reliably in production, bringing elasticity and GPU acceleration to any framework, cutting deployment time from weeks to minutes.

Helped global apps, CPG, and pet brands grow by leveraging Amazon advertising solutions.

Helped leading brands and 3P sellers expand to Amazon EU, JP, SG, KR, and MX.

Led west coast sales and channel for Telx Group (Digital Reality), a leading Data-Center and xconnect provider acquired by PE firms Berkshire and Abry Partners.

Led growth of strategic clients including Facebook, Allianz, Gates Foundation, Cisco Systems, Nvidia, Cooley LLC, and Amdocs.Global Cloud Exchange provides managed services, cloud, data-center, and fiber capacity to global enterprise customers. Reliance Globalcom now GCX acquired the Ethernet pioneer Yipes Enterprise Services backed by Norwest and Crosslink in 2008.

Developed and managed over 20 channel partners. Also developed and grew clients direct including Wal-Mart QQC, Budget Rental, Plumas Bank, Guess, Nautilus, and Marriott Hotels.NEN was backed by Accel, Greylock, Crosspoint, and GS. Acquired by Earthlink Business (ELNK) in 2006 .

VAR and SI. Authorized partner for Cisco, HP, Dell, Microsoft, and other Tier 1 OEMs.

Startup building multimedia platform (VOD, VOIP, Broaddband) for carriers. BBN was backed by Redpoint, AOL Time warner, Meritech, Charles River and acquired by Arris.

Startup building digital wallet/e-payments. Backed by DFJ, MasterCard, Morgan Stanley, and Itochu. On BD team that launched digital wallets deployed by MasterCard, Chase, Discover, Wells Fargo, Capital One, and Citibank.