Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Dataset curation companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 186 dataset curation companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 38,783 professional contacts across them, including 3,518 with verified work emails. San Francisco is the largest hub.
This list covers dataset curation companies headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest dataset curation companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19,890 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 25 years, providing high-quality, diverse datasets that power the world's leading AI models.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 6,538 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “iMerit is a leader in expert data solutions for training, tuning and evaluating AI models and computer vision systems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,272 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Objectways is an AI data solutions company trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises and high-growth AI teams worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 977 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “provides ML data operations support with Human-in-the-loop for LLMs and autonomous systems, focusing on AI/ML model training and annotation services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 899 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With 30+ years of experience in data annotation, we support AI innovators to build smarter AI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 770 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thoth AI is a global AI data solutions company with R&D operations in Silicon Valley, working with AI teams to support the design, development, and deployment of production-grade…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 751 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cogito Tech is a global managed service provider specializing in scalable data development tailored for AI model development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 654 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Productive Playhouse is the execution partner technical program managers trust when scale, compliance, and quality can’t slip.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 526 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pareto.AI is a talent-first human data collection platform for AI research, empowering the top 0.01% of expert labelers to deliver the highest-quality training data.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 401 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Build Super Accurate AI with us.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 374 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Revelo provides data infrastructure for frontier model AI code generation, including expert annotators, eval frameworks, and reinforcement learning gyms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 356 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SuperAnnotate bridges the gap between cutting-edge AI innovation and the high-quality human data that powers it - helping advanced AI teams build more intelligent models.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 331 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DataForce delivers high-quality, multimodal training data and services to power the next generation of AI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 328 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shaip, by Ubiquity, provides end-to-end AI data services-data collection, licensing, validation, transcription, and annotation-across text, audio, image, and video.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 231 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Abaka AI delivers human intelligence data for frontier AI, helping power advanced systems through a trustworthy data platform.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Defined.ai is the leading provider of ethical AI data, offering the world’s biggest ethical AI data marketplace alongside subscriptions for flexible data access and custom…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recognized as the 'Most Innovative Biotech Company, 2024', by Fast Company!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 164 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rancho BioSciences is an international fee for service data curation company with analysis and developer services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Label Your Data is a data annotation & labeling company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wow AI | Powered by AIxBlock - is an.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “McKesson Compile utilizes a technology-first approach to transform messy and disparate datasets into clean, analytics-ready data for life science companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Liberty Source PBC is a U.S-based provider of human-in-the-loop data services that help companies realize maximum value from their Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Roboflow creates software-as-a-service products to make building with computer vision easy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The AI Data Labeling Marketplace: Find, hire, and securely pay vetted AI Trainers/data labelers across 110+ countries & any domain expertise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “People Data Labs (PDL) is the leading provider of high-quality, compliant data on people, companies, and job postings.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: dataset curation companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names dataset curation companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of dataset curation companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name dataset curation companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
Showing 25 of 186 dataset curation companies based in the United States
See the full list, filter by size, metro and specialty, and get verified emails and direct dials for all 3,518 reachable decision-makers.
Free signup · no credit card
Dataset curation companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 186 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among dataset curation companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “dataset curation companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names dataset curation companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among dataset curation companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,518 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Dataset curation companies by metro
- Dataset curation companies in San Francisco26
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names dataset curation companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many dataset curation companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 186 dataset curation companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
APPEN, headquartered in Kirkland, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most dataset curation companies?
San Francisco leads with 26 headquartered companies, followed by New York (13) and San Jose (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,518 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 186 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
Ready to reach these companies? Verified emails and direct dials for all 186 dataset curation companies based in the United States. Start with a free account, no credit card.
Download this list →Related lists
Dataset curation companies by geography
About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
More company lists
- All company lists
- Lists by location
- Lists A-Z
- New lists
- Dataset curation companies based in India
- Dataset curation companies based in the United Kingdom
- AI companies based in the United States
- Cybersecurity companies based in the United States
- Manufacturing companies based in the United States
- Media companies based in the United States