Eric Landau

We were very honoured to welcome Britain’s Minister for AI, @KanishkaNarayan MP, to commemorate the opening of our brand new London office! We’re excited about this next chapter as we continue to scale here in London. From the very beginning, @ulrikstighansen and I believed the UK was one of the best places in the world to build and grow a company due to the exceptional talent shaped by world-class universities, strong institutions, and a globally diverse workforce. This opening ceremony was quite a moment as I remember back to our first office, a single white room that could hardly hold a handful of people. Now we have close to 40 nationalities represented in our London office alone. That's nearly one fourth of the world! A huge thank you to Kanishka for joining us, and to every person who has helped make @encord_team into what it is today.

Read the @WSJ's article here: wsj.com/articles/ventu…

Thrilled to be featured in the @WSJ yesterday in their coverage of the surge in physical AI investment. When Ulrik and I started @encord_team, this wasn't a category many were paying attention to. Consumer humanoid robots were a distant promise, and the idea that multimodal data infrastructure would be a priority for the world's most advanced AI teams seemed ambitious. Now it’s a cover story. Last year I noted that physical AI hadn't had its ChatGPT moment yet. The WSJ’s piece is proof that its moment is finally arriving. From the article, physical AI investment in 2026 is on pace to nearly double last year's. As the data supply chain to support it is being built, the volume stored on our platform has grown from 1 petabyte to 5 in less than 12 months. We raised our Series C to support the data infrastructure for the teams at the center of this shift. Glad to see this attention coming as AI is brought to the physical world.

In the wake of @encord_team's Series C, @ulrikstighansen and I appreciated the invite to @10DowningStreet to discuss the current state of AI and how the UK government can help foster the domestic startup ecosystem. We had a great session and are very excited about the progress being made in the UK tech environment. Thank you to James Carroll for hosting us and Dom Hallas for the support!

Today we’re announcing that @encord_team has raised a $60M Series C led by Wellington Management, with participation from existing and new investors including Y Combinator, CRV, N47, Crane Venture Partners, Harpoon Ventures, Bright Pixel, and Isomer Capital. This brings our total funding to $110M. The world of AI has already changed dramatically since @ulrikstighansen and I started hacking in my parents’ dining room during YC in 2021. But we think the biggest inflection point is actually happening right now. AI is breaking out of the chatbox and into the physical world. Autonomous vehicles are navigating roads. Surgical robots are operating in hospitals. Warehouse systems are making real-time decisions on factory floors. These aren’t prototypes. They’re deployed systems, and their number will grow to tens of millions in the next few years. As these AI systems become multimodal, autonomous, and embedded in critical applications, the quality, governance, and usability of data become make-or-break. These systems are only as good as the data they are fed, and there is very little margin for error. That’s why we’ve built Encord to be the platform AI teams rely on when the stakes are high, to manage, curate, annotate, and align the data their models depend on. Today, more than 300 of the world’s most advanced AI teams trust Encord to train and run their AI on the right data. With this round, we’re going all in on the next frontier of AI because the teams building the most consequential systems in the world deserve the best data infrastructure. We’ve only reached this point through a concoction of hard work, unwavering support, and the shared belief of many people.  To our team, customers, and investors: thank you for getting us here. The hard part is still ahead, and so is the best part. @Wellington_Mgmt @ycombinator @crane_vc @brpxcapital @HarpoonVentures @CRV @N47capital @isomercapital @scott_sage @LarsenJensenUSA @tjrylander