Deccan AI Announces Funding From Prosus Ventures to Accelerate Growth
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 28, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deccan AI, a fast growing startup that specializes in pristine data for AI model training and evaluations, has raised funding from Prosus Ventures. The investment will accelerate product development, expand the team, and fuel market expansion.
High-quality data is the lifeblood of AI models, yet there is a constant challenge in generating the vast datasets required to train and evaluate sophisticated models. Deccan AI was founded to solve this critical need. The company supports the frontier model work of leading AI companies such as Google and Snowflake. Deccan has a specialized platform, an elite workforce of over 500,000 freelancers (e.g. IIT graduates and PhDs), and deep expertise in cutting-edge GenAI use cases such as agentic evaluations, coding tasks, and multi-modal data.
"This investment from Prosus Ventures is a powerful validation of our vision to provide the essential fuel for the AI revolution," said Rukesh Reddy, Founder of Deccan AI. "We see a significant opportunity to empower top AI labs with the high-quality human data they need to build truly intelligent systems. This funding will enable us to expand our capabilities, invest further in ML research, and strengthen our presence, particularly in the Bay Area."
"We are excited to support Deccan AI as it plays a critical role in powering the next generation of AI models," said Apoorve Goyal, Managing Director, Prosus.
Deccan AI's rigorous quality control process, high-caliber team, and well-researched workflows ensure consistently high-quality data. This is reflected in recent positive customer feedback. Snowflake recently utilized Deccan AI for validation and testing. "For evaluating powerful RAG and Agentic systems, you need high quality data," said Rajhans Samdani, Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake. "Deccan AI provided us with exactly that. The team also worked very closely with us as we improved our benchmarking process and they were able to turn on a dime."
About Prosus Ventures
Prosus Ventures is the venture investing arm of Prosus, one of the world's largest technology investors. Prosus Ventures backs innovative companies across Europe, the Americas, and Asia, focusing on sectors such as SaaS, e-commerce, fintech, and B2B.
About Deccan AI
Deccan AI, headquartered in the Bay Area, delivers pristine model training and eval data to top AI labs. Its elite network of freelancers enables expert human-in-the-loop support for complex AI workflows such as agentic evaluations, multi-modal data labeling, and code-based tasks.
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