# Omdena

> Omdena builds custom AI systems for startups, enterprises and impact organizations through a distributed engineering network, managed delivery and its Umaku review platform. Its work spans geospatial malaria mapping, wildfire detection, insurance claims and practical AI training.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Rudradeb Mitra (Founder & CEO)
- **Products:** Umaku, AI Development, Hire AI Developers, AI Capacity Building / Omdena Academy, AI Research & Development
- **Notable:** An ITU speaker biography documented 1,500+ collaborators from 84 countries on 31 social challenges in the first 17 months., Supported model development for Zzapp Malaria before Zzapp won the US$3 million grand prize in the US$5 million IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition in 2021., Current homepage reports 300+ organizations served and 600+ AI solutions; these are company-reported counts.

## Products & services

- **Umaku** — Delivery platform with commit-triggered scope, code-quality, DevOps and bug reviews, plus boards, documentation and QA tracking.
- **AI Development** — Custom AI from scoping and data pipelines through deployment and monitoring, including generative AI, vision, predictive models and edge AI.
- **Hire AI Developers** — Vetted engineers and delivery squads embedded in client teams.
- **AI Capacity Building / Omdena Academy** — Project-based training and senior mentorship using real data and deliverables.
- **AI Research & Development** — Applied research, prototypes and validation for difficult AI use cases.
- **Datasets and Data Engineering** — Data collection, annotation, labeled datasets, integration and data pipelines.
- **AI Innovation Challenges** — Selected global teams collaborate on bounded partner problems, historically often over eight weeks.

## Achievements

- An ITU speaker biography documented 1,500+ collaborators from 84 countries on 31 social challenges in the first 17 months.
- Supported model development for Zzapp Malaria before Zzapp won the US$3 million grand prize in the US$5 million IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition in 2021.
- Current homepage reports 300+ organizations served and 600+ AI solutions; these are company-reported counts.
- Public repositories cover renewable energy, air quality, water monitoring and other local challenges.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — OmdenaAI’s public GitHub organization lists an August 6 update to llm-observability-webinar; repository activity, not a product launch.
- **2026-07** — Public GitHub organization lists a July 8 update to data-observability-webinar.
- **2026-06** — The AI agent cost guide, published May 25 and updated June 8, emphasizes production reliability and indicative pricing.

## Links

- Website: https://www.omdena.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/omdena/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/OmdenaAI
- GitHub: https://github.com/OmdenaAI
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Omdena
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omdenaglobal/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/OmdenaAI/

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Last updated: 2026-10-23