Daniela Braga

Daniela Braga, CEO and Co-Founder, Defined.ai

Dr. Daniela Braga is founder and CEO of Defined.ai, one of the fastest-growing scale-ups in the AI space. With two decades of experience across research, industry, and entrepreneurship, and a hybrid background that spans from linguistics to engineering to AI, Dr. Braga is a citizen of the world and one of the world leaders of crowdsourcing adoption in large enterprises.

Dr. Braga has raised more than $63 million, and is the woman founder who raised the largest Series B in an AI company in the U.S. Always looking for the next challenge and to get out of her comfort zone, Dr. Braga has led her company to outstanding achievements in just five years.

Dr. Braga has been recognized as the Entrepreneur of the Year 2019 by the João Vasconcelos Award, and is an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2020 Pacific Northwest finalist. Under her leadership, DefinedCrowd ranked #27 in the Inc 5000 list with an 8550% revenue growth (2016-2019), won the VentureBeat AI Innovation Award (2019); and was featured on the following rankings: Forbes’ America’s Best Startup Employers, Forbes’ America’s Top 50 Most Promising AI Companies (2019); Hottest Start-ups in Lisbon by Wired (2018, 2019); AI 100: The Artificial Intelligence Startups Redefining Industries (2019).

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