Datacurve
YC W24San Francisco, US · Founded 2024 · 4 employees · 6 known investors
Datacurve develops research and data collection infrastructure for training AI systems. The company creates annotated datasets and evaluation frameworks to enable AI model development across various domains.
Also known as Shipd · Uncle GPT
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareUnited States of AmericaAmerica / Canada
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W24)
Datacurve was founded in 2024 by Serena Ge and Charley Lee.
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Serena Gein𝕏Co-Founder, CEOSerena Ge began coding in high school and built a training application used by Team Canada athletes. She attended the University of Waterloo for computer science before leaving to work with Cohere's CTO on language model improvements through synthetic data generation. She is now building data production systems at Datacurve.
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Charley Leein𝕏Co-FounderCharley Lee studied computer science at the University of Waterloo and interned at Google before focusing on AI research in multi-modal reinforcement learning and agent training. He is now building data infrastructure for large language models at Datacurve, a company he developed through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch.
Investors · 6
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$15M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2025
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Competitors · 7
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Cognition AI12 shared keywordsCognition develops Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer agent that plans, writes, tests, and deploys production code within existing development environments to augment human engineering teams.
Anthropic12 shared keywordsAnthropic is an AI safety research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company conducts frontier AI research, applies safety techniques, and deploys systems through products and partnerships.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Datacurve do?
- Datacurve develops research and data collection infrastructure for training AI systems. The company creates annotated datasets and evaluation frameworks to enable AI model development across various domains.
- Who founded Datacurve?
- Datacurve was founded by Serena Ge, Charley Lee in 2024.
- Who are Datacurve's investors?
- Datacurve's investors include Afore Capital, Homebrew, Northside Ventures, Y Combinator, Balaji Srinivasan, Chemistry.
- How much funding has Datacurve raised?
- Datacurve has disclosed $15M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
- Where is Datacurve headquartered?
- Datacurve is headquartered in San Francisco, US.