superannotate team

SuperAnnotate unifies your AI pipeline and simplifies dataset creation, curation, and model evaluation, enabling you to build, fine-tune and deploy better models faster.

Milestones

August 2018

Brothers Tigran and Vahan drop out from PhD to found SuperAnnotate.

January 2019

SuperAnnotate joins Berkeley's SkyDeck accelerator program and moves its headquarters to Silicon Valley.

April 2020

SuperAnnotate releases the first of its kind image annotation platform to the public.

June 2020

SuperAnnotate announces $3 million in Seed funding led by Point Nine Capital.

July 2021

SuperAnnotate announces a $14.5 million Series A round led by Base10 Partners.

January 2022

SuperAnnotate rolls out native integration with AWS, GCP and Azure which allows customers to import data directly into the platform.

August, 2023

SuperAnnotate launches GenAI software to fine-tune top performing large language models (LLMs).

November 2024

SuperAnnotate announces a $36 million Series B funding round led by Socium Ventures, a venture capital fund backed by Cox Enterprises, with additional participation from NVIDIA, Databricks Ventures, Lionel Messi's Play Time Ventures, and existing investors.

Founders

vahan petrosyan

Vahan Petrosyan

CEO
BIO

Vahan Petrosyan

CEO

Before SuperAnnotate, Vahan was working on his Ph.D. research in image segmentation at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. The algorithms he developed during his studies became the basis of SuperAnnotate’s platform. The growing demand for his technology in various computer vision applications eventually led him to drop out of his Ph.D. program to start the company.

tigran petrosyan

Tigran Petrosyan

President
BIO

Tigran Petrosyan

President

Physicist turned tech enthusiast and entrepreneur. After earning his master’s degree in Physics from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, Tigran pursued his Ph.D. in Biomedical Imaging and Photonics. Just before graduating, Tigran dropped out of his Ph.D. program to start SuperAnnotate with his brother, following his passion for building comprehensive teams and making products people love.

jason liang

Jason Liang

SVP of Business Development
BIO

Jason Liang

SVP of Business Development

Jason loves building and growing companies at the forefront of machine learning and artificial intelligence. As a Director of Business Development at DataRobot, Jason led several key technology alliance partnerships in cloud, analytics, and data management. He also led business development and operations at Qeexo, driving the deployment of almost 200 million machine learning models into production. Jason has an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and an undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

davit badalyan

Davit Badalyan

CTO
BIO

Davit Badalyan

CTO

David completed his master’s degree in Microelectronic Circuits and Systems in 2007 and worked at Synopsys as an R&D engineer and supervisor from 2005 to 2012. Before joining SuperAnnotate, he spent four years in the hardware design field at Singapore Technologies Kinetics before leading the web development team at Workfront, a leading project management software provider.