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Handshake AI

Mobilizes professional experts to create training data, evaluations, and environments for AI.

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Website
joinhandshake.com/ai
Founded
2014
Primary offering
Expert data & evaluation
Category
Expert networks & human feedback
Tags
Expert networks & human feedback, RL environments, AI evaluation, Enterprise AI, Data licensing
Legal entity
Stryder Corp. d/b/a Handshake; privacy policy covers joinhandshake.com/ai

What Handshake AI sells

Brings professionals into AI training and testing work. Their expertise also shapes practice tasks for AI.

Headline metrics

MetricValueAs ofSource
Annualized revenue run rate
Nearly $1B AI gross annualized revenue
nearly $1B2026-04-23Dealroom: Handshake AI revenue
ARR
Historical recruiting annual recurring revenue
nearly $100M2021-05-12Parent Series E and cumulative total
Valuation
$3.5B2022-01-19Parent Series F
Total funding (reported)
Derived reported cumulative financing ($235.5M prior total + $200M Series F); listed events total $434M
$435.5M2022-01-19Parent Series E and cumulative total

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