 "Playment co-founders Akshay Lal, Ajinkya Malasane and Siddharth Mall")
Artificial intelligence (AI) might be a buzzword for modern businesses but machines are smart only when fed with data to think and act like humans. Playment, a Bengaluru-based start-up, aims to serve the purpose of providing high-quality training data, though its people work from home, for computer vision-based companies.
Founded in 2015 by Siddharth Mall, Ajinkya Malasane and Akshay Lal, all IIT graduates who have worked for Flipkart, Playment raised $1.6 million recently as part of a pre-Series-A funding from Y Combinator, SAIF Partners, Sparkland Capital and Silicon Valley angel investors Ryan Petersen (CEO, Flexport), Max Altman, among others.
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