
Protege is an AI training data platform that connects AI developers with data holders. For AI developers, Protege offers a vast collection of high-quality training data across numerous modalities and…

Protege is an AI training data platform that connects AI developers with data holders. For AI developers, Protege offers a vast collection of high-quality training data across numerous modalities and…
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
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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: As a Data Solutions Lead in the Healthcare vertical, you will guide prospects and customers through the definition and delivery of healthcare datasets. Your job will be to understand what customers are building, identify the data that best fits their needs, and assemble and QA high-quality samples and final deliveries that meet their technical and conceptual specs. Along the way, you’ll ensure timelines and milestones are clearly communicated from the first stages of feasibility to the final data delivery.
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