Handshake Acquires Cleanlab
January 29, 2026
Handshake has acquired Cleanlab to integrate Cleanlab’s data-quality, confident learning, and LLM-evaluation research and technologies into Handshake’s talent and AI services. The acquisition positions Handshake to offer stronger data-quality and model-evaluation capabilities to frontier AI labs and enterprise customers, while Cleanlab’s open-source package will remain available under a more permissive Apache-2.0 license.
- Buyers
- Handshake
- Targets
- Cleanlab
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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