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          "vendor_value": "Meta took a 49% minority stake in June 2025 at a valuation above $29 billion.",
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          "record_value": "Meta invested $14.3 billion for a 49% non-voting stake at a $29 billion post-money valuation (Reuters and Scale AI).",
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          "note": "Claim located on vendor materials. SOC 2 reports are not public and no public registry carries them, so a SOC 2 claim can never be stamped above “claim located”. The FedRAMP Marketplace is a script-rendered registry and its listing text could not be read on the check date. Neither confirmed nor refuted."
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        {
          "field": "Founded",
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          "vendor_value": "2016",
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      "model": "Managed service",
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      "checked": true,
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        {
          "field": "Pricing",
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          "vendor_value": "Not published — project-based quotes.",
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      "slug": "mercor",
      "name": "Mercor",
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      "model": "Expert network",
      "founded": "2023",
      "hq": "San Francisco, CA",
      "pricing": "Not published — sales-led, hourly expert rates",
      "pricing_public": false,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/mercor/",
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      "checked": false,
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      "hq": "United States",
      "pricing": "Company pricing not published; expert role ranges are published on its job board",
      "pricing_public": false,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/micro1/",
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      "checked": false,
      "last_checked": null,
      "rollup": null
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      "hq": "San Francisco, CA",
      "pricing": "Not published — enterprise, priced per task",
      "pricing_public": false,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/surge-ai/",
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        {
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          "record_value": "Surge “took in more than $1 billion in revenue last year” (2024), per Reuters reporting carried by PYMNTS on July 1, 2025; the same reporting put Scale AI’s 2024 revenue at roughly $870 million and described the fundraise as Surge’s first.",
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        {
          "field": "Pricing",
          "check": "C1",
          "vendor_value": "Not published — enterprise, priced per task.",
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        {
          "field": "Founded",
          "check": "C8",
          "vendor_value": "2020",
          "stamp": "Unverified",
          "source_label": "Surge AI — surge.ai",
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          "checked_at": "2026-11-08",
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          "note": "Company-stated. No registry record for Surge Labs, Inc. was read in this pass."
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      "name": "Zeton",
      "url": "https://zeton.ai",
      "model": "Data lab",
      "founded": "Not published",
      "hq": "Not published",
      "pricing": "Not published",
      "pricing_public": false,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/zeton/",
      "wave": 4,
      "checked": false,
      "last_checked": null,
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      "slug": "labelbox",
      "name": "Labelbox",
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      "hq": "San Francisco, CA",
      "pricing": "Published — Free tier (500 LBU/mo); Starter $0.10 per LBU; Enterprise custom",
      "pricing_public": true,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/labelbox/",
      "wave": 1,
      "checked": true,
      "last_checked": "2026-11-08",
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        {
          "field": "Pricing",
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          "stamp": "Verified",
          "source_label": "Labelbox documentation — Limits",
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          "checked_at": "2026-11-08",
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          "record_value": "Labelbox units (LBUs), per the documentation’s Limits table: Free — “500 LBU free each month”; Starter — “Fixed rate: $0.10 per LBU”; Enterprise — sales-quoted. Documentation page updated October 5, 2026.",
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          "vendor_value": "2018",
          "stamp": "Unverified",
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          "note": "Company-stated. No registry record was read in this pass."
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      "founded": "2019",
      "hq": "Redwood City, CA",
      "pricing": "Not published — quoted after a scoping call; third-party reports put entry enterprise contracts near $50,000–$60,000/year",
      "pricing_public": false,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/snorkel-ai/",
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      "pricing_public": true,
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      "hq": "Paris, France",
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      "pricing_public": false,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/kili-technology/",
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      "checked": false,
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      "slug": "superannotate",
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      "hq": "San Francisco, CA",
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      "pricing_public": false,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/superannotate/",
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      "checked": false,
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      "founded": "2020",
      "hq": "London, United Kingdom",
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      "pricing_public": false,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/encord/",
      "wave": 3,
      "checked": false,
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      "slug": "cvat",
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      "pricing_public": true,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/cvat/",
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      "pricing_public": true,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/label-studio/",
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      "slug": "lightly-ai",
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      "hq": "Zurich, Switzerland",
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      "pricing_public": false,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/lightly-ai/",
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      "hq": "San Jose, CA (delivery hubs in India)",
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      "pricing_public": false,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/imerit/",
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      "slug": "sama",
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      "url": "https://www.sama.com",
      "model": "Managed service",
      "founded": "2008 (as Samasource)",
      "hq": "San Francisco, CA",
      "pricing": "Not published — managed programs, sales-led",
      "pricing_public": false,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/sama/",
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      "slug": "cloudfactory",
      "name": "CloudFactory",
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      "model": "Managed service",
      "founded": "2010",
      "hq": "Reading, United Kingdom (founded in Kathmandu; US office in Durham, NC)",
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      "pricing_public": false,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/cloudfactory/",
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      "slug": "cogito-tech",
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      "founded": "2011",
      "hq": "Levittown, NY (delivery centers in Noida, India)",
      "pricing": "Not published — project-quoted managed services",
      "pricing_public": false,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/cogito-tech/",
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      "slug": "label-your-data",
      "name": "Label Your Data",
      "url": "https://labelyourdata.com",
      "model": "Managed service",
      "founded": "2020",
      "hq": "Kyiv, Ukraine (offices in the US and EU)",
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      "pricing_public": true,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/label-your-data/",
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      "pricing_public": false,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/troveo/",
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      "pricing_public": false,
      "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/versos-ai/",
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