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
Location
California, United States
Transaction Type
Buyout

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