Aya Data
London, GB · Founded 2021 · 173 employees on LinkedIn · 6 known investors
Aya Data is an AI consulting firm providing end-to-end services including data collection, annotation, model development, deployment, and optimization for organizations in healthcare, retail, utilities, agriculture, and geospatial sectors. It applies computer vision, natural language processing, and statistical modeling, with a stated focus on building AI expertise in Africa.
Also known as Aya Data
Founders & leadership
Aya Data was founded in 2021 by Ama LS, Freddie Monk, Ama Larbi Siaw, and Ama Larbi-Siaw.
Investors · 6
Also in the syndicate · 3
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$900K disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2024
- $900Kseed roundOct 2024 · 6 sources
54 Collective (lead), 54Collective (lead), angel investors, Microtraction, Savannah Fund
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Aya Data is an AI consulting firm offering services across the AI value chain, including data acquisition, data annotation and labeling, model development, deployment and ongoing optimization. Annotation work spans text, images, video, audio, 3D/LiDAR point clouds and segmentation, alongside computer vision, natural language processing and statistical modeling. For generative AI clients the company offers synthetic dataset generation via prompt engineering with LLMs, LVMs and foundation models, data curation and labeling, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), direct preference optimization, model fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation tuning, red teaming, and audit and quality control of model outputs. A more recent service line covers agentic AI: designing, building and deploying enterprise AI agents and building task-specific video training pipelines used to fine-tune agent performance.
Alongside services, Aya Data develops two of its own products. AyaGrow is an AI-based farm management tool providing tree analytics, health assessment and yield estimation for commercial and smallholder farmers; AyaSpeech is a speech-to-speech translation system focused on low-resource and local African languages. The company states compliance with ISO 9001, GDPR, HIPAA and SOC 2 standards, and positions affordability, security and quality as service commitments.
Published case studies cover agriculture (drone-based palm plantation monitoring, forest growth, maize disease detection via a smartphone app for Ghanaian farmers, strawberry harvesting), healthcare and medtech (medical image labeling for Cydar Medical, 3D vascular scan annotation, digitization of patient records), automotive and autonomous driving (e-scooter image labeling), geospatial (satellite deforestation monitoring, solar lead qualification for Sunsave, heritage site preservation), infrastructure (road crack detection), retail and security (surveillance footage annotation for shoplifting detection, fashion catalog structuring for TRUSS), insurance (vehicle damage annotation for an African insurer), sports sponsorship brand detection with Alegion, logistics document extraction, and police radio transcription.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsAya Data raised US$900,000 in a mix of debt and equity led by 54Collective with angel participation, bringing total funding to US$1.15 million. Proceeds were earmarked for scaling the AyaGrow and AyaSpeech products and hiring.
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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 8
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- Aya Dataayadata.ai · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Aya Data do?
- Aya Data is an AI consulting and data annotation company serving clients across Africa, Europe and Asia.
- Who founded Aya Data?
- Aya Data was founded by Ama LS, Freddie Monk, Ama Larbi Siaw, Ama Larbi-Siaw in 2021.
- Who are Aya Data's investors?
- Aya Data's investors include Microtraction, 54 Collective, Savannah Fund.
- How much funding has Aya Data raised?
- Aya Data has disclosed $900K raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
- Where is Aya Data headquartered?
- Aya Data is headquartered in London, GB.
