Company profile · data as of 2026-10-15
Appen
Delivers human-validated datasets for frontier models, agents, speech, and embodied AI systems.
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- Website
- appen.com
- Founded
- 1996
- Primary offering
- Managed AI & data services
- Category
- Managed annotation & multimodal data
- Tags
- Managed annotation & multimodal data, Global crowd, Frontier alignment, Speech data, Physical AI, Model evaluation
What Appen sells
Uses people to prepare and check AI training data. Its work includes speech data and AI programs that act in the physical world.
- Frontier Alignment — Human data and evaluation for post-training (additional training to improve an existing model).
- Agentic AI
- Multimodal and Speech AI
- Physical AI
- Model Integrity
- Research Services
Headline metrics
| Metric | Value | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annualized revenue run rate China annualized revenue run rate | more than $175M | June 2026 | Appen H1 2026 results release and FY2026 guidance |
| Revenue Global revenue | $43.7M | H1 2026 | Appen H1 2026 reviewed financial statements / Appendix 4D |
| Growth rate Global revenue growth | -26.9% | H1 2026 | Appen H1 2026 reviewed financial statements / Appendix 4D |
| Other metric Cash and cash equivalents | $44.7M | 2026-06-30 | Appen H1 2026 reviewed financial statements / Appendix 4D |
Most recent figure per metric kind. Run rate, ARR, revenue, funding and valuation are kept distinct; estimates and forecasts are marked.
Paid work and open routes
- Company careers — Role-specific (careers)
- CrowdGen project network — Set by project (program)
- Sage media-quality evaluator — Up to $15 / hour (listed)
- US project & career listings — Not published (careers)
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