Datumo押注AI评估是一个无代码企业品类；Salesforce参投1550万美元

做的是什么生意

A Seoul-based AI data and evaluation company: crowdsourced data labeling, licensed pretraining datasets, and Datumo Eval, a no-code platform that scores and monitors LLM outputs for unsafe, biased or incorrect responses.

启动资金：~$28M total raised through August 2025, including the $15.5M Series B

起因

David Kim, a former AI researcher at Korea's Agency for Defense Development, found data labeling painfully slow and founded Datumo (then SelectStar) in 2018 with five KAIST alumni. The crowdsourced labeling app passed $1M revenue in its first year and built a base of enterprise clients in Korea.

经过

As the LLM ecosystem matured, clients began asking Datumo to score their model outputs and compare them to alternatives. The company doubled down: it launched Datumo Eval, a full-stack no-code evaluation platform that auto-generates test data and checks for unsafe, biased or incorrect responses, and released Korea's first benchmark dataset focused on AI trust and safety. The Aug 2025 $15.5M Series B, which brought total funding to about $28M, was earmarked for R&D in automated evaluation tools and global go-to-market in South Korea, Japan and the US.

结果

Still scaling: as of August 2025 Datumo had 150 employees in Seoul, a Silicon Valley office opened in March 2025, and it was positioning Datumo Eval against evaluation/monitoring players like Galileo and Arize AI rather than competing only on data.

可借鉴之处

服务客户群是发现渠道：Datumo不是凭空发明评估产品——标注客户提出了需求，这让转型风险更低，并且立即就有销量。