Avala
San Francisco, US · Founded 2020 · 157 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
Avala builds custom auto-labeling AI agents trained on a customer's own sensor data (LiDAR cuboids, camera bounding boxes, polylines, segmentation masks) and provides managed inference infrastructure to run them at production scale. It targets Physical AI and autonomous driving programs, combining a 15,000+ human expert workforce for seed labeling and corner-case verification with model fine-tuning and continuous retraining.
Founders & leadership
Avala was founded in 2020 by Emal Alwis.
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Emal AlwisinFounder, CEO/CTO
Investors · 4
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- What does Avala do?
- Avala builds custom auto-labeling AI agents trained on a customer's own sensor data (LiDAR cuboids, camera bounding boxes, polylines, segmentation masks) and provides managed inference infrastructure to run them at production scale. It targets Physical AI and autonomous driving programs, combining a 15,000+ human expert workforce for seed labeling and corner-case verification with model fine-tuning and continuous retraining.
- Who founded Avala?
- Avala was founded by Emal Alwis in 2020.
- Who are Avala's investors?
- Avala's investors include Flybridge Capital Partners, MaC Venture Capital, Wonder Ventures, at.inc/.
- Where is Avala headquartered?
- Avala is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
