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Prolific

Active · Making diverse, high-quality data easily available to anyone, anywhere

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Why it ranks

How the rank works
18signal of 100 · rising 3
  • team of 180Team size · YC's directory+11.7
  • went through YCProgram · this site+4
  • hiringHiring · Titles (titles.fru.dev), YC+2

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Competitors

AIAPTO, Inc.Shared: quality data, high qualityPlug and PlayJapanStartup →AIOutsetShared: quality data, high quality, researchYC S23San FranciscoStartup →AISelectstar, Inc.Shared: quality data, high quality, modelPlug and PlaySouth KoreaStartup →AISieveShared: quality data, high quality, trainYC W22San FranciscoStartup →AIGetDotShared: quality data, high quality, decisionYC S21BerlinStartup →
Companies closest to Prolific
Company
APTO, Inc.Shared: quality data, high qualityPlug and Play Not statedAI
OutsetShared: quality data, high quality, researchYC S23ActiveAI, Data
Selectstar, Inc.Shared: quality data, high quality, modelPlug and Play Not statedAI, Data
SieveShared: quality data, high quality, trainYC W22 +1ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
GetDotShared: quality data, high quality, decisionYC S21ActiveAI, Data

Adjacent

Developer toolsSalidoShared: data easily, manage500 Global 2014United StatesStartup →AIRovi HealthShared: quality data, high qualityYC F25New York CityStartup →DataLogarithm LabsShared: quality dataYC W20San FranciscoStartup →AIsieveShared: quality data, high quality, humanYC X25New York CityStartup →AIForestrat.aiShared: quality data, high quality, researchPlug and PlayUnited StatesStartup →
Companies next to Prolific
Company
SalidoShared: data easily, manage500 Global 2014Not statedDevtools
Rovi HealthShared: quality data, high qualityYC F25ActiveAI
Logarithm LabsShared: quality dataYC W20ActiveData, Devtools
sieveShared: quality data, high quality, humanYC X25ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
Forestrat.aiShared: quality data, high quality, researchPlug and Play Not statedAI

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Company
MudafyThe LatAm tech-enabled real estate broker to buy and sell houses.team of 75ActiveAI
Short StoryModern ecommerce for petite womenteam of 120hiringActiveAI
Arpeggio BioArpeggio Bio develops drugs targeting transcription factors using AI…team of 20ActiveAI
AudioFocusHearing aids that work in noisy places, like restaurants, using ML.team of 4InactiveAI
BeaconsAn AI-powered, all-in-one business platform for content creatorsteam of 25hiringActiveAI
CoLabHuman and AI design review for hardwareteam of 150ActiveAI, Devtools

About Prolific

Prolific helps dedicated research teams to collect the very highest-quality human-powered data - at scale - using our simple-to-use platform to target and manage participants from our diverse, vetted participant pool. The truth matters: the best decisions, and biggest discoveries, are built on the highest-quality data. And with the increasing proliferation of AI, access to reliable, diverse data to develop and train AI models has never been more important. Created by researchers for researchers, Prolific was founded to provide a better way for researchers and organisations to get high-quality human data and feedback at scale for important research. Now, more than 30,000 researchers across academia and industry use Prolific to gather definitive human data and feedback from reliable, engaged and fairly-treated participants – with a new study launched every 3 minutes.

YC batch
S19 · Summer 2019
Status, per YC
Active
Category
AI
Team size
180
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Checked
6h ago

YC tags: AIOps, Marketplace

Prolific in S19: 176 companies, 26% AI

Prolific: questions

Which YC batch was Prolific in?

Prolific was in Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch (S19).

Is Prolific still active?

Y Combinator lists Prolific as active.

Where is Prolific based?

Prolific lists London, England, United Kingdom as its location on YC's directory.