About Cleanlab
Cleanlab is an AI reliability platform that helps enterprises detect and fix errors in AI datasets and outputs. Its flagship product, Cleanlab Studio, uses automated data-centric AI to find and correct label errors, hallucinations, and low-quality outputs in structured and unstructured data. The company serves Fortune 500 enterprises and was acquired by Handshake in January 2026.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$30M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Founders
Curtis Northcutt
PhD in CS from MIT; inventor of confident learning and the Cleanlab algorithms; previously at Google, Meta/Oculus, Amazon, Microsoft, and NASA.
LinkedInJonas Mueller
PhD in CS/ML from MIT; previously led deep learning research and open-source AutoML at Amazon Web Services; 20+ publications at top ML venues.
Anish Athalye
PhD in CS/Systems from MIT; best paper award at ICML 2018; 30,000+ GitHub stars across open-source projects.
LinkedInWhat happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
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I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.