Deccan AI Announces Funding to Fuel Market Expansion
The company supports the frontier model work of leading AI companies such as Google and Snowflake.
Deccan AI, a fast growing startup that specialises in pristine data for AI model training and evaluations, has raised funding from Prosus Ventures. The funds will be used to accelerate product development, expand the team, and fuel market expansion.
“We are excited to support Deccan AI as it plays a critical role in powering the next generation of AI models,” Apoorve Goyal, Managing Director, Prosus, said.
The company supports the frontier model work of leading AI companies such as Google and Snowflake.
Deccan has a specialized platform, an elite workforce of over 500,000 freelancers (e.g. IIT graduates and PhDs), and deep expertise in cutting-edge GenAI use cases such as agentic evaluations, coding tasks, and multi-modal data.
High-quality data is the lifeblood of AI models, yet there is a constant challenge in generating the vast datasets required to train and evaluate sophisticated models. Deccan AI was founded to solve this critical need.
"We see a significant opportunity to empower top AI labs with the high-quality human data they need to build truly intelligent systems. This funding will enable us to expand our capabilities, invest further in ML research, and strengthen our presence, particularly in the Bay Area," Rukesh Reddy, Founder of Deccan AI, said.
The startup said Snowflake recently utilised Deccan AI for validation and testing.
“For evaluating powerful RAG and Agentic systems, you need high quality data. Deccan AI provided us with exactly that. The team also worked very closely with us as we improved our benchmarking process and they were able to turn on a dime,” Rajhans Samdani, Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake, said.