Top Series B Data infrastructure companies

Outlier shut down in 2022, this page remains as a memory of our company and on the resumes of our team.Business intelligence is ready for a change. We don't believe the world needs any more dashboards, charts or data warehouses. What leaders need today is help to make better use of the tools they already have. That is what we do at Outlier: we improve the relationship between people and their data.We believe that success in life and success in business are not separate things, but intertwined as part of our lives. It is important to us that the journey we take with our company is as positive as the destination we hope to reach.

• Series B
• 6.6k employees
• Founded 2015

Through a community of shoppers and a convenient app, Shipt provides personal shopping and delivery and is available to 80% of households in more than 5,000 U.S. cities. Shoppers go above and beyond, communicating in real time about preferences and substitutions. A curated marketplace of retailers, Shipt offers access to a variety of stores and product categories including fresh foods, household essentials, wellness products, office and pet supplies. Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corp. Founded and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Shipt also maintains an office in San Francisco. For more information, visit Shipt.com.

• Series B
• 6.5k employees
• Founded 2014

WhatsApp is a fast, simple and reliable way to talk to anyone in the world. More than 1.5 billion people across 180+ countries use WhatsApp to stay in touch with friends and family, anytime and anywhere. WhatsApp is not only free but also available on multiple mobile devices and in low connectivity areas — making it accessible and reliable wherever you are. It's a simple and secure way to share your favorite moments, send important information or catch up with a friend. WhatsApp helps people connect and share no matter where they are in the world.For many people in the world WhatsApp is a lifeline. We're looking for engineers, designers, researchers, product managers, technical program managers, customer ops, consumer marketing, and more. Come join our teams and make impact at scale.

• Series B
• 5.7k employees
• Founded 2009

Founded in 2009, Alibaba Cloud is a leading cloud computing and artificial intelligence company. Leveraging its proprietary Apsara Cloud operating system, Alibaba Cloud offers a comprehensive suite of cloud services based on a three-tiered architecture of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) to customers worldwide. Alibaba Cloud is the largest provider of public cloud services in China and Asia Pacific. With its large scale and strong foundation in IaaS and PaaS infrastructure, Alibaba Cloud provides enterprises with high-performance and low-cost computing resources, and platform services for large-scale model training, fine-tuning, and inference. Alibaba Cloud aspires to become the most open cloud computing company in the AI era. Alibaba Cloud’s proprietary LLM Qwen is one of the world’s leading LLMs, and has open-sourced Qwens of different sizes with multimodalities, supporting more enterprise customers to realize their AI-driven innovation. Follow us:Twitter: www.twitter.com/alibaba_cloudFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/alibabacloud/

• Series B
• 5.3k employees
• Founded 2009

What Does Sama DoSama gets your AI project to production—and helps you stay there.Sama is chosen by high-performing GenAI and CV teams across the full AIdevelopment lifecycle, combining expert services with reliable execution thatscales—delivering results, dependable datasets, and continuity even as things change.Our services cover the full AI lifecycle:● Data Strategy & Consulting – Aligning data needs to model goals, definingquality standards, and setting the foundation for faster, more confidentdevelopment● Annotation & Labeling – Using full-time, domain-trained teams with built-in QA to deliver precise, production-ready training data.○ Annotation Workflows: Validation, Classification, Tagging, Enrichment○ GenAI Workflows: Prompt Engineering, RAG embedding, Retrieval-AugmentedGeneration (RAG), Content Moderation & Filtering...● Model Evaluation – Scoring, ranking, and validating model outputs throughstructured, rubric-based evaluation and human-in-the-loop reviewWe don’t just deliver data—we embed in your workflows. Our dedicated teams,integrated QA, and platform support accelerate time-to-quality and give you the control and flexibility needed to iterate with speed and confidence.

• Series B
• 4.3k employees
• Founded 2008