Ivan Lee - Datasaur Founder

Ivan Lee is the CEO and Founder of Datasaur.ai. He graduated with a Computer Science B.S. from Stanford University. He was chosen for the selective Mayfield Fellows entrepreneurship program in 2010. Ivan went on to found Loki Studios, an iOS game studio. After raising institutional funding from DCM's A-Fund and launching a profitable game, Loki was acquired by Yahoo.

Ivan spent the next 10 years building AI products at a number of companies, most recently at Apple. He discovered that while the industry was focused on Computer Vision tooling, there was a significant gap in serving Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies and labeling raw text and audio data - most companies were using a painful combination of spreadsheets, open source tooling and clunky in-house tools.

Placing a big bet on the potential of NLP, he built Datasaur to focus on democratizing access. Datasaur now serves data science teams at institutions such as Google, Netflix, Zoom, Qualtrics, Stanford, Harvard, Oxford and more.

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Datasaur’s enhanced Search extension streamlines data labeling by enabling instant, precise searches with advanced filtering, logic building, and bulk actions, boosting both speed and accuracy across large datasets. Designed for non-technical users, it empowers reviewers and labelers to efficiently manage complex annotation tasks.

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A New Way to Label Text: Span + Line Labeling
A New Way to Label Text: Span + Line Labeling
May 5, 2025

We’ve introduced a new mixed labeling type that supports labeling spans within a line while also categorizing entire lines separately. This allows you to configure questions for each line and still perform regular span labeling. Perfect for use cases that require dual-level granularity like transcripts, contracts, or forms.

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April Feature Updates: Mixed Labeling, Smarter Search, and More Project Control
April Feature Updates: Mixed Labeling, Smarter Search, and More Project Control
April 28, 2025

We’re back with a fresh batch of updates aimed at making your labeling experience faster, more precise, and easier to manage. From new labeling types to better search functionality and project organization, here’s what’s new in the Datasaur platform.

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