- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"field": "total_funding", "conflict": "Inc42 and YCDB report ~$2.5M total; CB Insights reports $3.35M", "source_urls": ["https://inc42.com/buzz/indian-data-annotation-startup-playment-acquired-by-telus-international/", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/playment", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/playment"]}, {"field": "founders", "conflict": "Tracxn lists Himanshu Sahu as co-founder; primary sources (Forbes, Inc42, YC, BusinessWire) list Siddharth Mall, Akshay Lal, Ajinkya Malasane", "source_urls": ["https://tracxn.com/d/companies/playment/__TeNTJTTTZW3SYhV55kC0EvlMGTnnVthvqljoqvjj1eM", "https://www.forbes.com/profile/playment/", "https://inc42.com/buzz/indian-data-annotation-startup-playment-acquired-by-telus-international/"]}, {"field": "employee_count", "conflict": "85 at acquisition (Inc42 Jul 2021) vs 50 (YC profile) vs 90 (YCDB) vs 1,000 FTE + 300K freelancers (Forbes Mar 2020, likely includes crowd workforce)", "source_urls": ["https://inc42.com/buzz/indian-data-annotation-startup-playment-acquired-by-telus-international/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/playment", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/playment", "https://www.forbes.com/profile/playment/"]}, {"field": "headquarters", "conflict": "Primary HQ Bengaluru/Bangalore, India; CB Insights also lists San Francisco, California", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/playment", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/playment"]}, {"field": "founded_date", "conflict": "Incepted August 2015 vs launched November 2015 vs generically '2015'", "source_urls": ["https://inc42.com/flash-feed/playment-funding/", "https://inc42.com/buzz/indian-data-annotation-startup-playment-acquired-by-telus-international/", "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210706005219/en/TELUS-International-Acquires-Playment-Firmly-Staking-Its-Leadership-in-the-Global-Data-Annotation-Market"]}, {"field": "acquisition_price", "conflict": "Deal terms undisclosed in press; SEC/Stifel filings disclose only partial share-based retention/earnout ($1M + 2×$1.75M) to selling employees, not total purchase price", "source_urls": ["https://inc42.com/buzz/indian-data-annotation-startup-playment-acquired-by-telus-international/", "https://www.stifel.com/prospectusfiles/PD_4612.pdf", "https://thelogic.co/briefing/telus-international-acquires-indias-playment/"]}, {"field": "client_count", "conflict": "Forbes (Mar 2020) cites 100+ companies; Inc42 (Jul 2021) cites 200+ ML teams", "source_urls": ["https://www.forbes.com/profile/playment/", "https://inc42.com/buzz/indian-data-annotation-startup-playment-acquired-by-telus-international/"]}, {"field": "yc_founder_listing", "conflict": "YC company page lists only Akshay Lal under Active Founders; other two co-founders not shown", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/playment", "https://www.forbes.com/profile/playment/"]}]]
- source urls
- ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playment", "https://inc42.com/buzz/ai-crowdsourcing-playment-funding/", "https://inc42.com/buzz/indian-data-annotation-startup-playment-acquired-by-telus-international/", "https://inc42.com/flash-feed/playment-funding/", "https://playment.io", "https://thelogic.co/briefing/telus-international-acquires-indias-playment/", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/playment/__TeNTJTTTZW3SYhV55kC0EvlMGTnnVthvqljoqvjj1eM", "https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/saif-partners-invests-rs-4-7-cr-in-playment-116070200582_1.html", "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210706005219/en/TELUS-International-Acquires-Playment-Firmly-Staking-Its-Leadership-in-the-Global-Data-Annotation-Market", "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251031413123/en/TELUS-Completes-Privatization-of-TELUS-Digital", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/playment", "https://www.forbes.com/profile/playment/", "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1825155/000162828021021886/q32021exhibit991.htm", "https://www.stifel.com/prospectusfiles/PD_4612.pdf", "https://www.vccircle.com/exclusive-saif-partners-backs-marketplace-crowdsourced-work-playment", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/playment", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/playment"]