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Sama
Sama (formerly Samasource, founded 2008 by Leila Janah) sells data annotation, model validation and data strategy services, delivered through a ML-assisted platform and full-time, trained annotation teams. Customers include Fortune 2000 firms such as Google, GM, Ford, Microsoft, Walmart and NVIDIA, and revenue comes from enterprise service contracts. It raised a $70M Series B led by CDPQ in 2021 and about $84.8M in total funding. In April 2026 it announced 1,108 redundancies in Nairobi after Meta ended a major contract, and Wikipedia reports it ended its Kenya and Uganda operations on 15 September 2026.
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