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Our episode with Curtis Northcutt, founder and CEO of Cleanlab drops this upcoming Tuesday (10/29)! Listen in to hear the details of how he raised a $25M series A round led by Menlo Ventures & TQ Ventures and the lessons he learned along the way. A little more about CleanLab... What they do: Cleanlab is an AI infrastructure company that transforms messy enterprise data into a high-quality AI knowledge base — handling everything from ETL and chunking to de-duplication and curation. Quickly deploy policy-adherent, safe, and accurate Agent/RAG applications without data headaches. Use cases include customer support automation, "chat with my docs" product support, and enterprise search. Cleanlab's forward deployed engineers customize this knowledge curation and GenAI solutions to fit your needs. Unlock reliable AI solutions 10x faster powered by Cleanlab's AI infrastructure. Who they are: Cleanlab, founded by three MIT PhDs who are pioneers in data-centric AI, is the global leader in knowledge curation for enterprise AI systems. Our founders--Curtis Northcutt (CEO), inventor of Confident Learning and recipient of the MIT thesis award and the 5-year Test of Time AI award; Anish Athalye (CTO), an ICML Best Paper awardee with 35,000+ GitHub stars; and Jonas Mueller (Chief Scientist), creator of AWS's AutoML used by thousands of companies-- bring expertise from OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta. Collectively cited over 15,000 times, they've been instrumental in advancing AI systems like Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, Oculus VR, and AWS services. Cleanlab has received several industry awards such as the 2024 Forbes AI Top 50, 2023 CB Insights GenAI Top 50, and 2024 CB Insights AI Top 100. Trusted by over 100 Fortune 500 companies and backed by leading investors like Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital, and Databricks Ventures, Cleanlab specializes in delivering accurate, policy-compliant GenAI solutions by curating and structuring enterprise data. Find us on YouTube, Spotify or Apple and make sure to subscribe and leave a review if you enjoy the podcast!

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