iMerit
iMerit is a San Jose, California data-services company that provides data annotation, enrichment and AI training services, with delivery centres in India. Its proprietary Ango Hub platform handles annotation, workflow automation and model fine-tuning.
Radha Basu founded the company in 2012 and led it as CEO. TechCrunch reported in July 2025 that it was profitable and had not raised money since 2020, when Khosla Ventures, Omidyar Network, Dell.org and British International Investment invested. The company said it worked with three of the seven major generative AI companies, eight of the top autonomous-vehicle companies and two of the top three cloud providers.
In July 2026, according to SiliconANGLE's report of 26 October 2026, ExlService Holdings acquired iMerit; Basu is now described as executive vice president and head of iMerit at EXL. On 26 October 2026 it launched iMerit Scholars, a platform for AI developers to recruit and manage domain experts who evaluate, fine-tune and validate models, which it said had more than 30,000 vetted professionals in 118 countries.
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