Playment

Playment is a complete 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.[2][3]

Playment
Type of businessPrivate
Available inEnglish
Founded2015 (2015)
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
HeadquartersBangalore, Karnataka, India
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)Siddharth Mall
Ajinkya Malasane
Akshay Lal
Key peopleSiddharth Mall (CEO)
Ajinkya Malasane(Head of Business Development)
Akshay Lal(Head of Product Development)
IndustryInternet
ServicesData Labeling for Artificial Intelligence
URLplayment.io
Alexa rank990,162 (October 2016)[1]
LaunchedNovember 2015
Current statusActive

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

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.[4] 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[4][5]

Services

Training Data for Machine Learning, Image annotation & Data labeling for Computer Vision, and more.

See also

References
  1. "Playment.in Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-10-26.
  2. "socialedge.org". Archived from the original on 2011-10-22.
  3. "Jobs of the future". The Economist. 2011-04-07. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  4. "Playment raises funding; Adani, BuildTraders & MPS in M&A". www.dealstreetasia.com. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  5. India, Press Trust of (2016-07-02). "Saif Partners invests Rs 4.7 cr in Playment". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2016-10-26.

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