
Protege is an AI training data platform that shortens procurement time for high-quality, multimodal training datasets while preserving governance and intellectual property controls. The platform…

Protege is an AI training data platform that shortens procurement time for high-quality, multimodal training datasets while preserving governance and intellectual property controls. The platform…
What they do: AI training-data platform that curates, licenses, and delivers real-world multimodal datasets for model development
Founded: 2024
Headquarters / HQ: New York (documented in profiles)
Recent funding: $30M Series A extension led by Andreessen Horowitz (Jan 2026); prior Series A $25M (Aug 2025); $10M seed (Sep 2024)
Founders / leadership: Bobby Samuels (CEO & co-founder); Travis May (Chairman & co-founder)
Bridging the gap between data holders and AI developers by enabling compliant, high-quality dataset sourcing and licensing for model training and evaluation.
2024
Data Infrastructure and Analytics
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Seed round with participation from SV Angel, Liquid 2 Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Flex Capital, Adam D'Angelo, Travis May, and others
25000000
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Extension that expanded the August 2025 Series A, bringing cumulative funding to $65M since founding
“Includes participation from prominent investors such as CRV, Footwork, Andreessen Horowitz, Bloomberg Beta, Flex Capital, SV Angel, Liquid 2 Ventures, Adam D'Angelo, Travis May, and others”
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Company Overview: We are building Protege to solve the biggest unmet need in AI — getting access to the right training data. The process today is time intensive, incredibly expensive, and often ends in failure. The Protege platform facilitates the secure, efficient, and privacy-centric exchange of AI training data.
Solving AI’s data problem is a generational opportunity. We’re backed by world-class investors and already powering partnerships with some of the most ambitious teams in AI. The company that succeeds will be one of the largest in AI — and in tech.
We’re a lean, fast-moving, high-trust team of builders who are obsessed with velocity and impact. Our culture is built for people who thrive on ambiguity, own outcomes, and want to shape the future of data and AI.
Role Overview You will own how customers access, evaluate, and receive data—from samples and evaluation sets to full contractual deliveries. You’ll define the product surfaces and mechanisms through which data leaves the platform, ensuring delivery is secure, repeatable, rights-compliant, and increasingly scalable . As Protege shifts from bespoke delivery to a product-led platform, you’ll shape the path toward staged self-service access .
What You Will Own Define delivery as a product capability
Enforce privacy & rights at Point of Access
Reduce delivery bespoke work
Design the path to self-service
Represent delivery state in the platform
Cross-Functional Alignment
You’ll work closely with:
PM, Data Inventory & Partner Systems: ensure what’s discoverable is deliverable
PM, Privacy, Rights & Trust: enforce eligibility and compliance at access time
GTM & Partnerships: improve sampling and evaluation velocity
Engineering: owns ingestion execution and infrastructure
Who You Are
What Success Looks Like
Strategic Impact This role directly influences revenue velocity, customer trust, platform scalability, and Protege’s long-term self-service posture—because data delivery is where platform value becomes real.
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