{"id":172863,"date":"2023-09-26T16:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T21:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/kolena-a-startup-building-tools-to-test-ai-models-raises-15m"},"modified":"2023-09-26T16:27:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T21:27:36","slug":"kolena-a-startup-building-tools-to-test-ai-models-raises-15m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/kolena-a-startup-building-tools-to-test-ai-models-raises-15m","title":{"rendered":"Kolena, a startup building tools to test AI models, raises $15M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kolena-a-startup-building-tools-to-test-ai-models-raises-15m2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kolena.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kolena<\/a>, a startup building tools to test, benchmark and validate the performance of AI models, today announced that it raised $15 million in a funding round led by Lobby Capital with participation from SignalFire and Bloomberg Beta.<\/p>\n<p>The new cash brings Kolena\u2019s total raised to $21 million, and will be put toward growing the company\u2019s research team, partnering with regulatory bodies and expanding Kolena\u2019s sales and marketing efforts, co-founder and CEO Mohamed Elgendy told TechCrunch in an email interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe use cases for AI are enormous, but AI lacks trust from both builders and the public,\u201d Elgendy said. \u201cThis technology must be rolled out in a way that makes digital experiences better, not worse. The genie isn\u2019t going back in the bottle, but as an industry we can make sure we make the right wishes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolena, a startup building tools to test, benchmark and validate the performance of AI models, today announced that it raised $15 million in a funding round led by Lobby Capital with participation from SignalFire and Bloomberg Beta. The new cash brings Kolena\u2019s total raised to $21 million, and will be put toward growing the company\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}