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Invisible Technologies
The operations company that became a frontier-lab data supplier: managed expert teams, an RL Data Lab, and the Meridial expert marketplace — valued above $2 billion in 2025 reporting.
| Model | Managed service + RL data lab; Meridial expert marketplace |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2015 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, CA |
| Pricing | Not published — enterprise contracts, sales-led |
| Website | invisibletech.ai |
What Invisible Technologies does
Invisible Technologies was founded in San Francisco in 2015 by Francis Pedraza as an operations-outsourcing company — human experts plus software running business processes. It pivoted into AI: the company states it has trained more than 80% of the world’s top AI models (a company claim, not an audited figure), runs an RL Data Lab building training and evaluation data for model developers, and operates Meridial, a marketplace where expert contractors take on data work.
In January 2025 Matt Fitzpatrick, formerly global head of McKinsey’s QuantumBlack Labs, became CEO, with Pedraza moving to executive chairman. In September 2025 the company raised $100 million led by Vanara Capital at a valuation Bloomberg reported above $2 billion. Its own site lists a core team of 250+ and client logos including AWS, Cohere, ElevenLabs, Microsoft and Thomson Reuters.
Strengths
- Named in Google’s own AI Overview answers for this category — a top-of-market visibility position few vendors hold
- Data lab plus deployment under one roof: training data, RL environments and enterprise rollout
- Funded and valued at unicorn-plus scale ($100M raise, September 2025) with a decade of operating history
Considerations
- Headline claims (80% of top models trained) are the company’s own and not independently audited
- No public pricing of any kind
- Began as a general operations outsourcer; the data-lab practice is newer than the brand
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- iMerit — A managed data-services company that pairs employed specialist teams with its Scholars expert network — and, since 2026, sits inside EXL.
- Sama — The original impact-sourcing annotation company: a Certified B Corp running managed programs with its own full-time workforce in Kenya and Uganda.
- CloudFactory — A managed-workforce company: trained analyst teams in Nepal and Kenya delivering annotation and data processing as a consumption-priced service.
- Cogito Tech — A US-registered managed annotation company whose India-based workforce and specialist consultants concentrate on healthcare, legal and financial AI data.
- Label Your Data — A managed annotation service that does the rarest thing in this market: publishes its per-unit prices, with no minimum order.
- Zilo AI — A Bangalore staffing-and-annotation firm with a distinct model: its annotators work inside the platform you already use, instead of selling you theirs.
- TELUS Digital — The telecom-owned data giant: TELUS’s digital arm runs one of the world’s largest AI data operations, built on the $935M acquisition of Lionbridge AI.
- Innodata — The 1988 data-engineering veteran turned AI data supplier: a NASDAQ-listed managed service whose revenue more than doubled in a year on frontier-lab data work.
- Shaip — A healthcare- and conversational-AI data specialist — collection, licensing and annotation — now operating inside Ubiquity Global Services after its 2026 acquisition.
Frequently asked questions
What does Invisible Technologies do?
The operations company that became a frontier-lab data supplier: managed expert teams, an RL Data Lab, and the Meridial expert marketplace — valued above $2 billion in 2025 reporting.
How much does Invisible Technologies cost?
Invisible Technologies does not publish pricing (not published — enterprise contracts, sales-led). Any figure quoted by third parties is an estimate; budget discovery requires engaging the vendor directly.
Who is Invisible Technologies best for?
Frontier labs and large enterprises that want expert data work and AI deployment run as one managed operation, with a named team accountable for delivery.
Who should not use Invisible Technologies?
Self-serve buyers — there is no platform tier or published rate; every engagement starts with a sales process, and the company’s center of gravity is enterprise operations, not commodity labeling.
Sources
- About Invisible Technologies (founded 2015, team 250+, RL Data Lab) — invisibletech.ai
- Invisible Technologies raises $100M at a reported $2B+ valuation — AlleyWatch (Sep 2025)
- Invisible Technologies appoints McKinsey AI leader as CEO — BusinessWire (Jan 2025)
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Profile last updated: November 8, 2026 · How we write profiles · Corrections: [email protected]