# Centific

> Centific is a Redmond, Washington-based AI and data company that calls itself the hidden infrastructure behind world-class AI models. Its AI Data Foundry combines a global network of 1.8 million-plus domain experts with platforms for data collection, annotation, RLHF, model evaluation, governance and multimodal orchestration, helping enterprises and frontier model labs move AI from experimentation to production. Founded in 2020 out of the former Pactera EDGE business, Centific is a recognized NVIDIA innovation partner and raised a $60M Series A led by Granite Asia in June 2025.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** Redmond, Washington, United States
- **Founders:** Venkat Rangapuram (CEO & Co-founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 3,300 employees (a majority based in India)
- **Products:** AI Data Foundry, Data Marketplace, OneForma, VerityAI, Pitaya.AI
- **Notable:** Raised a $60M Series A led by Granite Asia in June 2025, Named an NVIDIA innovation partner for Vision and Language AI inferencing, Built a global expert network of 1.8M+ domain experts across 350+ languages and 230+ markets

## Products & services

- **AI Data Foundry** — Full-stack platform to develop, operate and govern production AI - spanning data collection, annotation, RLHF, supervised fine-tuning, model safety and evaluation, with infrastructure-agnostic deployment across cloud, core and edge.
- **Data Marketplace** — A marketplace giving enterprises and model labs access to high-quality, domain-specific and multilingual data for training and evaluating AI.
- **OneForma** — Crowd and expert platform that mobilizes Centific's global network of domain experts for data collection, labeling and human-in-the-loop tasks.
- **VerityAI** — AI governance, validation and trust solution focused on safe, secure and compliant AI deployment - used in smart-city and enterprise settings.
- **Pitaya.AI** — Agentic vision-AI SaaS platform aimed at retail operations, launched at NRF Protect, delivering loss prevention and operational efficiency.
- **RL Environments-as-a-Service (RLEaaS)** — Reinforcement-learning environments offered as a service to train and evaluate agentic AI systems.
- **AI Localization** — Localization and internationalization of AI across 350+ languages and 230+ markets.

## Achievements

- Raised a $60M Series A led by Granite Asia in June 2025
- Named an NVIDIA innovation partner for Vision and Language AI inferencing
- Built a global expert network of 1.8M+ domain experts across 350+ languages and 230+ markets
- Rebranded from Pactera EDGE to Centific in 2023 with a new identity and AI focus
- Reports operating profitably while scaling to ~3,300 employees
- Launched Pitaya.AI agentic vision platform at NRF Protect

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Closed a $60M Series A round led by Granite Asia to fund global expansion.
- **2025-03** — Featured with NVIDIA at GTC 2025 as an innovation partner for Vision and Language AI inferencing.
- **2024-08** — Appointed Vasudevan Sundarababu as Chief Data and AI Officer.
- **2023-02** — Rebranded from Pactera EDGE to Centific with a new name, logo and AI-first identity.

## Links

- Website: https://centific.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/centificglobal/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/CentificGlobal
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/CentificGlobal/

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Last updated: 2026-06-09