Karya provides data generation and annotation services to build culturally sensitive and powerful AI models. They leverage a people-centric platform to deploy tasks and collect diverse, high-quality datasets across numerous languages and dialects. The company focuses on ethical data practices while enabling economic opportunities for rural workers through digital task deployment.
Funding
$1M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
AI and machine learning models require vast amounts of high-quality, labeled data, but sourcing and annotating this data, especially in diverse languages and from specific demographics, can be challenging and expensive. Traditional data labeling often overlooks ethical considerations and provides limited economic opportunities for workers in underserved communities.
Solution
Karya provides a digital work platform that connects AI/ML projects with a network of workers in rural India, enabling the creation of high-quality datasets through microtasks. The platform divides data tasks into smaller, manageable units that can be completed on mobile devices, even in low-bandwidth environments. Karya focuses on ethical data practices, ensuring fair compensation (20x the minimum wage) and skill development for its workers, while providing clients with access to diverse and accurately labeled datasets. The platform supports various data types, including text, image, and audio, and offers custom survey deployment in Indic languages.
Target Audience
Karya's primary customers are AI/ML research teams, data scientists, and organizations requiring high-quality, ethically sourced datasets, particularly those focused on Indic languages and Indian demographics.
Features
- Mobile-first digital work platform accessible in low-network areas
- Task deployment via the Karya Box for offline functionality
- Support for generating, labeling, and annotating diverse data types (text, image, audio)
- Custom survey design and deployment in Indic languages
- ML-based automated quality checks for data validation
- Web portal for creating and managing data tasks
- Catalogue of pre-existing datasets available for licensing
- Research and development services for custom AI/ML model development