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Sama Receives the 2023 Real Leaders Impact Award

Sama Wins 2023 Business Intelligence Group Innovation Award

Wendy Gonzalez Named One of The Top 100 Women in Tech to Watch

Sama Executive Appointed to Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence Working Group

Computer Vision Expert Duncan Curtis Joins Sama Leadership Team as Senior Vice President of Product

Wendy Gonzalez Named 2022 Woman of the Year by Business Intelligence Group

Sama Made the Inc. 5000 List! (For the 3rd time)

We Made CB Insights’ AI 100 List: The most promising AI startups of 2022

Wendy Gonzalez Won Responsible AI Leader of the Year Award

101 Most Innovative Machine Learning Startups & Companies (San Francisco)

Wendy Gonzalez Nominated for Women in AI Awards 2022

Honorable Mention in Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards

How AI Plays A Role In Everyday Life (And What It Means For Leaders)

B Lab has named Sama ONE OF THE BEST FOR THE WORLD™ 2021!

Sama Adds Squarespace Executive Kinjil Mathur to Advisory Board

Sama Names Tony MacDonald as CFO and Molli Barnes as Senior Vice President of Global People

Technology Solving the “Prosperity Paradox” – Guest: Wendy Gonzalez, CEO of Sama

Changing the world with Wendy Gonzalez

How Machine Learning Is Shaping The Future Of Advertising

Sama Appoints Facebook/eBay Veteran and Former East Palo Alto Mayor Regina Wallace-Jones, to its Board of Directors

How An Ethical AI Startup Makes A Triple-Bottom Line Impact

Sama Made Inc.’s 2021 Best in Business

Sama Partners with Mila to Solve Key Problems in AI Development

Great CEOs Podcast – with Jim Schleckser from Inc. CEO Project and Wendy Gonzalez from Sama

Reducing Food Waste: Wendy Gonzalez Of Sama On How They Are Helping To Eliminate Food Waste

Sama Raises $70M Series B to Deliver the Most Accurate Training Data Powering the World’s Most Ambitious AI Applications

Women-led data labeling AI startup raises $70M in Series B

Sama aims to bring greater equality to crowd-labeling of datasets with new $70M

Sama taps into $70M to build ‘first end-to-end AI platform’ for training data

San Francisco AI startup Sama eyes Montréal R&D expansion with $70 million Series B round

Sama Made the Inc. 5000 List (For the Second Year in a Row!)

Sama Honored On Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies For The Second Year In a Row

Sama Provides the Data to Fight Food Waste and Power Cashierless Checkout

Montreal Attracts Record Investments

Is Your AI Ethical? Three Ways To Bake Impact Into Your Business Model

Sama Validates Its Ethical AI Supply Chain Through A Randomized Control Study With MIT

Scenes From Silicon Valley’s Cautious Return to the Office

MarTech Interview with Wendy Gonzalez, CEO at Sama

Despite A.I.’s Rapid Development, We’re Still Missing ‘Ethical A.I.’ from Start to Finish, Says Sama CEO Wendy Gonzalez

Sama Becomes First AI Company to Receive Validation From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Impact Model With Randomized Control Trial Study

The Impact of a Tech-Centered Vocational Training and Employment Program for Youth in Kenya

2021 Software Companies to Watch List

Honorable Mention in Fast Company’s 2021 World-Changing Ideas Awards

Sama Recognized in the 2021 Forbes AI 50 List

Metrics Matter: Three Ways to Leverage Impact Metrics to Drive Business Value

How AI Trends Could Transform The Healthcare Industry

Bay Area Profit-Purpose Company Samasource Rebrands a Year After Founder’s Death

How A Purpose-Driven Startup Managed The Death Of Its Founder, Funding, And The Pandemic

Sama Names Wendy Gonzalez as Chief Executive Officer

AI Technology Can Enhance Human-Centered Work Instead Of Threaten It

Cornell Tech Puts Computer Vision into Practice on Clothing

Today’s AI Solutions Require Quality, Unbiased Training Data

Sama Becomes First AI Company to Receive B Corporation Certification

The Ghost Workers Powering The AI Economy

AR, VR, Autonomy, Automation, Healthcare: What’s Hot In AI Right Now

Sama Wins 2020 Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough Award for Best Image Processing Solution

LinkedIn Unveils Tool to Help Combat AI Bias

Women Leading The AI Industry: “Never stop learning”, With Wendy Gonzalez of Sama

Sama Honored on Inc. Magazine’s Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies—the Inc. 5000

If data is the new oil, where’s the refinery?

How Samasource Is Powering AI for 25% of the Fortune 50

FBR Featured Guest: Wendy Gonzalez

AI bias detection (aka: the fate of our data-driven world)

Announcing nominees for the second annual Women in AI Awards

data-security-sama

Why Diversity is Essential for Quality Data to Train AI

How Ethical is Your AI?

Changing the World Through AI and Training Data

Adaptability During COVID

Goodbye Tourists, Hello Labelers

The Pandemic Brings Some African Tech Workers Luxe Lodging

E-Commerce Runs On Data Powered By AI

How Samasource’s CEO Helped Turn a Non-Profit into a Fully Sustaining For-Profit

Samasource Expands Product Team With Strategic New Hire; Announces Research & Development Team Growth

The Curious Case of Data Annotation and AI

Interim CEO shares how Samasource is moving ahead after founder’s death

Don’t Let Bad Data Sour Your A.I.

Samasource Secures $14.8M Series A Funding to Further Scale Business and AI Capabilities

Samasource Raises $14.8M for Global AI Data Biz Driven From Africa

Above the Trend Line

Samasource Joins Both Partnership on AI and Mila

These Companies Claim to Provide “Fair-Trade” Data Work. Do They?

AI’s New Workforce: The Data-Labelling Industry Spreads Globally

Samasource Announces Company Growth Ahead of Exhibition of Fashion R&D Open Source Dataset at CVPR 2019

See The World: Samasource VP on Gender Equity, AI and A Global Perspective

Samasource, Artificial Intelligence Leader, Opens Office in Montréal

Samasource Shows Fashion R&D Image Annotation Set

Capturing The Value Of Technology For The Future Of Work In Kenya

Big Tech’s AI Runs on Datasets Labeled By Marginalized People

Samasource and Cornell Tech Announce i-Materialist-Fashion

Google & Microsoft Banking on Africa’s AI Labeling Workforce

Samasource and Cornell Tech Announce i-Materialist Fashion, A Robust, Free Open Source Fashion Dataset for Research and Development

Using Artificial Intelligence to Customize Content Without Bias

Will AI Kill Development?

How Silicon Valley Machine Learning is Transforming Lives in Kenya

Building AI Datasets in Uganda

How Do You Teach Artificial Intelligence?

Here’s How Samasource is Connecting People in Slums to High-Paying Jobs

Connecting People with Digital Work, the Gig Economy, and More

Samasource is Preparing the World’s Poorest for Work in the 21st Century

Our Awards

2022 Fast Company World Changing Ideas

Inc.’s 5,000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America

2021 Inc. Magazine Best Workplaces

2020 AI Breakthrough Award for Best Image Processing Solution

2021 B Corp Award for “Best for the World” in Workforce

With Sama, Go Beyond Your Data