Braden Hancock — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-founder of Snorkel AI, an AI company that raised $235 million and achieved a $1.3 billion valuation.
Partner at Laude, an institutional investment firm with a portfolio including Perplexity and LMArena.
Led GenAI evaluation R&D for Llama 3, an open LLM family with over 1 billion downloads.
An AI researcher with experience at Stanford, MIT, Johns Hopkins, Google, and Meta, publishing in NeurIPS, AAAI, and ACL.
An angel investor and startup advisor for companies such as Gusto and Martian AI.

Biography

Braden Hancock is an AI researcher and investor known for co-founding Snorkel AI. This company, which focuses on data and evaluations for AI, successfully raised $235 million and reached a $1.3 billion valuation. He currently serves as a Partner at Laude, an institutional investment firm whose portfolio includes companies like Perplexity and LMArena.