Leila Janah, an American businesswoman who worked to end poverty in underserved countries, has died. She was 37. Janah’s company Samasource — a for-profit organization that employs low-income workers ...
The startup community has lost another moral leader today. Leila Janah, a serial entrepreneur who was the CEO and founder of machine learning training data company Samasource, passed away at the age ...
Kerry A. Dolan is a San Francisco-based editor covering billionaires. "Samasource stood out to us as an organization with strong leadership, demonstrated impact, and an ability to scale," Jacquelline ...
Samasource, a young San Francisco nonprofit group, is interested in tackling extreme poverty head on - but it's not giving any handouts. The organization uses the Internet to connect an untapped ...
While impact sourcing has been around for some time, little real detail has been available about the impact of such a model. Samasource – which operates in Haiti, Ghana, India, Uganda and Kenya – has ...
Forget microfinance. Leila Chiriyath Janah is betting that "microwork" can be an even more successful route to alleviate poverty. Samasource, her three year old San Francisco nonprofit, has found ...
The tech community has been left reeling after the death of Samasource founder and CEO Leila Janah passed away Friday at the age of 37. The cause of death, according to the company’s website, was ...
“The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn’t considered ‘sexy’ among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease,” says Leila Janah. So she founded Samasource, an ...
Leila Janah, a social entrepreneur who poured her energy into creating job opportunities for the world’s poorest communities, has died at 37, one of the companies she founded said. Samasource, the ...
AI training data provider Samasource has raised a $14.8 million Series A funding round led by Ridge Ventures. The San Francisco-headquartered company delivers Fortune 100 companies with the inputs ...