Artificial intelligence data foundry company Centific Global Solutions Inc. has raised $60 million in new funding from Jenny Lee of Granite Asia Management Pte. Ltd.

The company plans to use the funding, announced Tuesday, to scale up its AI infrastructure platform, enhance research and development for safe multimodal AI and expand enterprise partnerships globally. Founded in 2020, Centific offers an AI data foundry, a platform that provides the tools, infrastructure and human expertise needed to collect, curate and refine high-quality data for training, fine-tuning and safely deploying AI models at large scale.

Centific’s frontier AI data foundry supports centralized orchestration of datasets and workflows, including supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning from human feedback, red-teaming and synthetic data generation. It offers modular tools such as AI Workbench, Data Studio, RAG Studio and Safe AI Studio.

The company’s platform is built to operate across cloud, on-premises, edge and hybrid environments, with Centific leveraging Databricks and Nvidia Corp.’s CUDA-accelerated computing. The platform integrates tightly with Nvidia’s edge hardware to offer robust infrastructure flexibility and secure, scalable deployment options.

The platform also offers a plugin-based architecture to allow customers to mix and match components such as model catalogs and data marketplaces under platform-as-a-service or software-as-a-service metering models.

The company also maintains a global network of more than 1.8 million domain experts, including Ph.D.s, data scientists and vertical specialists, who supervise data labeling, validate datasets and work to reduce bias and hallucinations. The platform can also generate synthetic data to fill gaps when real-world data is scarce, helping clients in privacy-sensitive or regulated sectors bypass data scarcity and compliance issues.

Though Centific is not a household name or even particularly well-known outside the AI community, its customers need little introduction. They include OpenAI, Anthropic PBC, xAI Inc., Mistral AI SAS, Microsoft Corp., Google LLC, Dell Technologies Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd., Nvidia and Amazon Web Services Inc.

“This funding round isn’t about necessity, it’s about ambition,” Chief Executive Venkat Rangapuram said in a statement. “Having trained most [of] the world’s leading AI models, our Zero Distance Innovation ethos now pivots to enterprise impact, unlocking industries’ ability to deploy safe, scalable AI at speed and scale.”

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