#acqui-hire

#acqui-hire

Handshake began in 2013 as a platform for hiring college grads and launched a human data labeling business about a year ago to serve foundational AI model companies. Cleanlab, founded in 2021, is a startup that provides software for improving the quality of data produced by human labelers. The deal's purpose is primarily to acquire talent, aka an acqui-hire, adding nine key Cleanlab employees to Handshake's research organization.

The startup began as a "weekend hackathon" sparked by a question by Cooper's mother, who is an executive coach: could an AI tool automate the drudgery of report writing so she could spend more time on the human coaching work she loves? Over the past two years, Convogo has helped "thousands" of coaches and partnered with the "world's top leadership development firms," per an email bearing news of the acquisition sent by Convogo.