News Releases

• CloudFactory Strengthens Leadership Team with Three C-Level Appointments - July 23, 2024
• CloudFactory Appoints Kevin Johnston as CEO, Mark Sears Transitions to Executive Chairman - Jan 9, 2024
• CloudFactory launches Accelerated Annotation, a new Vision AI product - Jan 18, 2023
• CloudFactory wins Medium-sized Company of the Year at The AI Journal Global Excellence Awards 2022 - Dec 22, 2022
• CloudFactory Acquires Hasty, a Leading Platform to Accelerate Vision AI - Sept 8, 2022
• CloudFactory Appoints Pieter Nel CTO to Lead Data-centric AI Strategy - Aug. 1, 2022
• CloudFactory Launches Turnkey Data Annotation Solution for Computer Vision - Oct. 28, 2020
• CloudFactory Appoints Endava CEO John Cotterell to Board of Directors - Aug. 19, 2020
• CloudFactory Secures $65 Million in Growth Equity Funding Led by FTV Capital - Nov. 20, 2019
• CloudFactory Expands Mission in Kenya with Launch of New Digital Skills Learning Initiative - May 9, 2019
• CloudFactory Launches New Solutions and Partnerships to Accelerate AI Innovation - April 30, 2019
• CloudFactory Opens Global Headquarters in U.K., Appoints New CTO to Lead Tech Innovation - June 12, 2018
• CloudFactory Announces $7.3M Series B - May 24, 2017
• Startups and Fast-Growing Business Now Have Scalable Way to Automate and Outsource Work - April 19, 2016
• CloudFactory Introduces Flexible Service and Pricing Model for SpeakerText Transcription Service - Aug. 13, 2015
• CloudFactory Receives $2 Million Investment from The Rockefeller Foundation to Tap Skilled Kenya Workforce - Feb. 13, 2015
• CloudFactory Raises $3 Million To Build Human-Powered Services into Software Platforms - Oct. 10, 2014
• CloudFactory Honored for Leadership in Impact Sourcing - Oct. 30, 2013
• CloudFactory Acquires Key Crowdsourcing Competitor and Launches Next Generation Platform - Feb. 27, 2013
• CloudFactory announces plans for 5,000 new computer jobs in Nepal this year - Feb. 14, 2013
• CloudFactory Raises Growth Capital To Create Jobs for 1 Million People - Sept. 26, 2012
• CloudFactory launches at Techcrunch Disrupt SF: a third world startup fighting poverty by connecting businesses to Cloud Labor - Sept. 12, 2011

Media Coverage

• Dataconomy - Applying AI Solutions at the Startup, Growth and Enterprise Stages - June 11, 2020
• VentureBeat - CloudFactory Raises $65 Million to Prep and Process Data Sets - Nov. 20, 2019
• Triangle Business Journal - 2019 Best Places to Work Awards (Small Companies) - Sept. 13, 2019
• Forbes - The Ghost Workers Powering The AI Economy - Sept. 2, 2019
• Data Engineering Podcast - Data Labeling That You Can Feel Good About - July 15, 2019
• AiThority - AiThority Interview with Mark Sears, Founder and CEO at CloudFactory - July 5, 2019
• VentureBeat - Essential tips for scaling quality AI data labeling - June 12, 2019
• Forbes - AI Challenges and Why Legal is a Great Place to Kick-Start Great NLP - May 14, 2019
• Business Daily Africa - Safaricom in youth digital skills training deal - May 12, 2019
• Dataconomy - The Right Workforce Turns Data into Rocket Fuel for AI Projects - May 10, 2019
• Forbes - How A High-Growth Social Impact Culture Is Connecting A Million People To Online Work - May 9, 2019
• CIO East Africa - CloudFactory expands mission in Kenya with launch of new digital skills learning initiative - May 9, 2019
• Robotic Business Review - Why Humans Will Remain at Center of an Automated Workforce - March 18, 2019
• Forbes - Successful AI Development Means Fielding the Best Team - January 7, 2019
• Forbes - AI Bias and The 'People Factor' in AI Development - November 13, 2018
• WRAL TechWire - Inside the Big Top Bash: Profiling the 5 Presenters from Stealth to Scaling Up - October 23, 2018
• Information Management - Building Artificial Intelligence Aptitudes: Examining Myths and Realities - October 5, 2018
• Artificially Intelligent - AI in the Cloud and Around the World with Mark Sears - October 2, 2018
• Dataconomy - Why AI is Far from Replacing People - September 20, 2018
• EuroNews - AI is Coming to a Workplace Near You - June 14, 2018
• InsideBigData - AI Technology and the Critical Role People Will Play in Driving AI Forward - June 14, 2018
• EuroNews - How AI is Changing the World of Work and Recruitment - June 13, 2018
• ITEuropa - CloudFactory Moves Global HQ to Europe - June 13, 2018
• Startup365 - CloudFactory Opens Global Headquarters in UK, Appoints New CTO to Lead Tech Innovation - June 12, 2018
• Information Management - 3 Critical Jobs Driving Success with AI Projects - May 17, 2018
• SET - Harnessing the power of digital technology in Nepal: CloudFactory - May 4, 2018
• Nepali Times - A factory in the clouds - Aug. 18, 2017
• ExitEvent - CloudFactory: A Growing Case Study in the Triple Bottom Line - June 19, 2017
• Mixergy - The company behind Silicon Valley’s dirty little secret - Feb. 27, 2017
• Fortune - 5 Tech Startups to Watch in Durham, N.C. - March 13, 2016
• The Wall Street Journal - CloudFactory Raises $2M to Continue Spreading Tech Skills in Nepal, Kenya - Feb. 13, 2015
• Triangle Business Journal - Bandwidth's Kaestner part of $3M funder by Nepal outfit with Durham ties - Oct. 10, 2014
• Exit Event - $3M VC Deal Gets CloudFactory Closer to 1 Million "Cloudworker" Mission - Oct. 10, 2014
• Global Sourcing Council - The Business Case for Impact Sourcing - June 24, 2014
• IAOP - Pulse Magazine - Outsourcing is changing the world through impact sourcing - May 14, 2014
• The Rockefeller Foundation - The Financial and Social Value of Impact Sourcing - Feb. 21, 2014
• Global Sourcing Council - An Interview with CloudFactory, Winner of the 3S Award in Community Engagement - Nov. 15, 2013
• World Bank - Connecting to Work: How ICTs Are Expanding Job Opportunities Worldwide - Sept. 10, 2013
• Huffington Post - Can You Use Facebook? You've Got A Job In Kathmandu, Nepal, On The New CloudFactory Started By A Digital Entrepreneur - March 5, 2013
• TechCrunch - CloudFactory Launches CloudFactory 2.0 Platform After Acquiring SpeakerText and Humanoid - March 3, 2013
• NepaliTimes - Crowdsourcing in the cloud - Feb. 22, 2013
• KhabarSouthAsia - CloudFactory aspires to create a million jobs - Nov. 29, 2012
• GigaOm - Sector RoadMap: crowd labor platforms in 2012 - Nov. 4, 2012
• CNBC - Tasksumers Get a Tiny Job, Earn a Tiny Payment. Repeat. - Oct. 10, 2012
• YourStory - CloudFactory - Introducing 'Grameen Bank Approaches' To Outsourcing - Oct. 7, 2012
• Creators - CloudFactory and the Global eWorker Revolution by Chris Durst and Michael Haaren on Creators - Oct. 4, 2012
• TechInAsia - Nepal Startup CloudFactory Raises $700,000 Round of Funding - Sept. 27, 2012
• TechHustlers - The Story Behind Mark Sears Cloud Labor Assembly Line, CloudFactory - Aug. 22, 2012
• TrendHunter - Socially Empowering Digital Apps - CloudFactory Provides Jobs Through an Online Work Force - June 26, 2012
• Springwise - Online platform enables outsourcing of digital work and creates jobs in developing countries - June 13, 2012
• PSFK - How Cloudsourcing Will Change The Future Of Work - June 2, 2012
• TechBlorge - $2 an hour workers join virtual production line - April 19, 2012
• The Next Web - CloudFactory - Online Work for One Million People - April 17, 2012
• TechInAsia - CloudFactory, From the Heights of Nepal, Can Put 1 Million Cloud Workers Into Business - March 22, 2012
• Forbes - How Crowdsourcing Is Tackling Poverty In The Developing World - March 21, 2012
• Crowdsortium - A new member : CloudFactory - Aug. 26, 2011