# Pienso

> Pienso is a no-code AI platform that lets domain experts - not just engineers - train, fine-tune, and deploy their own machine learning and large language models without writing a single line of code. Founded by MIT Media Lab alumni Birago Jones and Karthik Dinakar, Pienso keeps humans in the loop and data in the customer's control, with cloud or on-premise deployment for governments, media companies, and regulated enterprises.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** Arlington, Virginia, United States
- **Founders:** Birago Jones (Co-Founder & CEO), Karthik Dinakar (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~24 employees
- **Products:** Pienso No-Code AI Platform, Garden of LLMs, Customer Insights, Content Moderation, Document Intelligence
- **Notable:** Raised $17M+ total funding, including a $10M Series A in March 2024, Recognized by CogX for NLP advancements (2023), Spun out of MIT Media Lab research on content moderation and bullying detection

## Products & services

- **Pienso No-Code AI Platform** — A point-and-click interface that lets non-technical experts annotate data, train and fine-tune models, and deploy them - cloud or on-premise - without writing code.
- **Garden of LLMs** — A controlled collection of large language models customers can fine-tune and deploy with full security and data sovereignty.
- **Customer Insights** — Analyze customer conversations, calls, and text to surface sentiment, topics, and operational signals.
- **Content Moderation** — Detect hate speech, misinformation, and harmful content using human-trained models.
- **Document Intelligence** — Classify, summarize, and extract meaning from large volumes of unstructured documents.
- **Risk Detection** — Surface subtle signals for risk, compliance, and public-safety use cases.

## Achievements

- Raised $17M+ total funding, including a $10M Series A in March 2024
- Recognized by CogX for NLP advancements (2023)
- Spun out of MIT Media Lab research on content moderation and bullying detection
- Deployed with major broadcasters and a US government agency

## Latest updates

- **2024-03** — Closed $10M Series A led by Latimer Ventures to scale sales, marketing, customer success, and engineering.
- **2024-02** — Featured by MIT News for putting user-friendly AI into the hands of problem-solvers.
- **2023-11** — Highlighted work with broadcaster Sky on customer-service analysis.

## Links

- Website: https://pienso.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pienso-us
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/pienso_ml

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Last updated: 2026-06-08