# Shaip

> Shaip, part of Ubiquity, supplies training and evaluation data for AI teams through managed collection, transcription, annotation, de-identification, and dataset licensing. Its specialties include clinical data, multilingual speech, generative AI evaluation, computer vision, and physical AI.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Vatsal Ghiya (Co-founder and former CEO), Chetan Parikh (Co-founder), Hardik Parikh (Co-founder; SVP and Business Head)
- **Products:** ShaipCloud, Shaip Data Platform, Data collection, annotation, and transcription, Data catalogs and licensing, LLM and GenAI evaluation
- **Notable:** Reported delivery of 20,500+ speech hours across 40 languages through 3,000+ linguists in 30 weeks., Announced successful completion of a SOC 2 Type II audit for its data platform in June 2024., Established healthcare dataset distribution through Databricks Marketplace and Protege.

## Products & services

- **ShaipCloud** — Managed AI training-data platform publicly launched in January 2021, covering text, images, audio, and video.
- **Shaip Data Platform** — Collection and validation platform with Shaip Manage for requirements and workforce coordination, Shaip Work for contributor tasks, and Shaip Intelligence for automated data checks.
- **Data collection, annotation, and transcription** — Custom multilingual and multimodal data projects, including expert medical labeling and privacy-focused de-identification.
- **Data catalogs and licensing** — Off-the-shelf clinical records, physician dictation, speech, image, text, and physical AI datasets.
- **LLM and GenAI evaluation** — Managed supervised fine-tuning data, human preference data, model evaluation, multilingual review, and benchmark datasets.
- **Generative AI platform** — Platform for AI application experimentation, evaluation, and monitoring, announced July 2024.
- **Physical AI data operations** — Task-based motion capture and multimodal demonstration data for embodied AI and humanoid robotics.

## Achievements

- Reported delivery of 20,500+ speech hours across 40 languages through 3,000+ linguists in 30 weeks.
- Announced successful completion of a SOC 2 Type II audit for its data platform in June 2024.
- Established healthcare dataset distribution through Databricks Marketplace and Protege.
- Reported a physical AI collection program delivering 5,000 valid motion-capture hours per month in 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Announced a physical AI data collection program scaled to 5,000 valid hours per month.
- **2026-02** — Ubiquity announced its agreement to acquire Shaip on February 12; Shaip’s current About page confirms it became part of Ubiquity that month.
- **2025-03** — Expanded healthcare data availability through Protege.

## Links

- Website: https://www.shaip.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shaip/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/weareShaip
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weareshaip/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weareshaip/

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Last updated: 2026-10-23