What Kili Technology does
Kili Technology is an enterprise-grade SaaS platform that transforms raw data — images, video, text, PDFs, audio, and LiDAR — into high-quality training datasets for AI projects. Unlike pure crowdsourced labeling marketplaces, Kili is sold as a software platform that customers run on their own data with their own labeling teams, in-house experts, or vetted Kili partners, and is designed for regulated industries that can't ship sensitive data offshore.
The product spans the full lifecycle of training-data work: multi-modal annotation for computer vision, NLP, document AI, and audio; active learning to prioritize the most informative samples to label; quality control workflows with consensus, gold standards, and reviewer dashboards; RLHF and SFT pipelines for tuning LLMs; and enterprise governance (RBAC, audit logs, on-prem deployment, GDPR compliance). Kili has reported helping customers reduce annotation time by 50% and achieve 94% labeling precision across multi-modal data types.
In 2024-2025 Kili leaned hard into generative AI fine-tuning — supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, preference comparison, and red-teaming workflows for foundation-model customers — positioning itself as the European answer to Scale AI and Snorkel for enterprises.
Who it's for
Kili Technology targets ML platform teams, applied research groups, and AI engineering organizations at enterprises in banking, defense, automotive, healthcare, and government, plus foundation-model labs that need high-quality SFT/RLHF data inside their own VPC.
Pricing
Kili is sold via custom enterprise pricing tied to project volume, modalities, seats, and deployment model (SaaS, VPC, or on-prem). A community/trial plan is available for evaluation.
Team & funding
Kili Technology was founded in 2018 in Paris by Edouard d'Archimbaud (CEO, ex-head of BNP Paribas's AI lab) and François-Xavier Leduc (COO), with Antoine Lemarchand as co-founder. The company has raised $31.9M total: a €5.7M ($7M) seed in early 2021 led by Serena Capital and e.ventures with angels including Olivier Pomel (Datadog CEO) and Nicolas Dessaigne (Algolia CEO), and a $25M Series A in 2021 led by Balderton Capital with Serena Capital and Headline.
Position vs competitors
Kili Technology competes with Scale AI, Snorkel AI, Labelbox, SuperAnnotate, V7, Surge AI, and Encord. Its differentiation is a software-first model (vs. Scale's services-heavy approach), strong European data-sovereignty story, and a deep enterprise feature set for regulated industries.