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Yonder LLC, founded in 2017 and based in Austin, Texas, develops an application designed to help brands contextualize online information. The company aims to define the authentic internet category by providing cultural context to information as it circulates online. Yonder believes that adding this context is essential to prevent the dehumanization of information, which can contribute to issues such as fake accounts, misinformation, and disinformation. By striving to enhance the flow of information, Yonder seeks to foster a more trustworthy and open digital environment, countering trends of information gatekeeping and mistrust.

LightTag is a startup that offers a text annotation platform aimed at assisting data scientists in generating training data for AI systems. The platform features a user-friendly interface that simplifies the annotation process, allowing project managers to define the number of annotators for each task. LightTag automatically allocates work among team members and provides options to aggregate or review annotations by individual annotators. The solution is fully managed and includes daily backups, long data retention, and a redundant server cluster to ensure high availability. By integrating machine learning and optimized layouts, LightTag enables efficient tracking of project progress, inter-annotator agreement, and individual annotator performance. This functionality is designed to help data researchers streamline the annotation process and securely collect data for their AI initiatives.