Playment
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| Type of business | Private |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | 2015 Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| Headquarters | Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Founder(s) | Siddharth Mall Ajinkya Malasane Akshay Lal |
| Key people | Siddharth Mall (CEO) Ajinkya Malasane(Head of Business Development) Akshay Lal(Head of Product Development) |
| Industry | Internet |
| Services | Data Labeling for Artificial Intelligence |
| URL | playment.io |
| Launched | November 2015 |
| Current status | Active |
Playment is an Indian data labeling platform which helps machine learning engineers build high quality ground truth datasets for training and validating machine learning models. It breaks down large problems into micro-tasks and distributes among its large community of trained annotators. It works on the principle of microwork, where a series of small tasks which together comprise a large unified project, and are completed by many people over the Internet.[1][2]
Annotators can browse through existing tasks and complete them in exchange for points, the points can be further exchanged for vouchers on online e-commerce sites such as Flipkart, Amazon(India) and Paytm.
History
[edit]Playment was founded in August 2015 by Siddharth Mall, Ajinkya Malasane, and Akshay Lal, alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagapur, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagapur respectively.[3] They worked at Flipkart.com as Senior Business Analysts, and left to create their new company Playment. On July 2, 2016, Playment run by Crowdflux Technology Pvt Ltd raised $700k Seed capital in funding from SAIF Partners[3][4]
Playment was acquired by TELUS International in July 2021. [5]
Services
[edit]Training Data for Machine Learning, Image annotation & Data labeling for Computer Vision, and more.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "socialedge.org". Archived from the original on 2011-10-22.
- ^ "Jobs of the future". The Economist. 2011-04-07. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
- ^ a b "Playment raises funding; Adani, BuildTraders & MPS in M&A". www.dealstreetasia.com. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
- ^ "Saif Partners invests Rs 4.7 cr in Playment". Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 2016-07-02. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
- ^ "TELUS International acquires Playment, firmly staking its leadership in the global data annotation market". 2021-07-21. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
Further reading
[edit]- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/venture-capital/SAIF-Partners-invests-Rs-4-7-Cr-in-Playment/articleshow/53022130.cms
- https://inc42.com/flash-feed/playment-funding/
- http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/saif-partners-invests-rs-4-7-cr-in-playment-116070200582_1.html
- https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/13/playment-gives-companies-on-demand-workers-to-analyze-data-using-mobile-devices/