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Handshake

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Current Fund Global Growth
Invested Global Growth
Founders Garrett Lord Ben Christensen Scott Ringwelski
Co-investors Coatue Kleiner Perkins Lightspeed Spark Capital True Ventures Notable Capital EQT Ventures

Even the world's most powerful AI is only as good as the human experts it learns from. Handshake AI connects the leading labs with millions of students, PhDs and professionals, from surgeons to musicians, scriptwriters to chemists, so their models learn from the very best.

Garrett Lord originally built Handshake to connect students everywhere with great careers. Now that same network is teaching the AI models we use every day. We've partnered with Garrett since he was doing just a few $m in ARR and have been with him every step of the way as he has grown to over $1bn today!