Jocelyn D'Arcy (Poindexter Labs)

Jocelyn D'Arcy (Poindexter Labs): £2M Seed Round

Jocelyn D'Arcy, founder of London-based Poindexter Labs, announces a £2M seed round led by Episode 1 Ventures; the company provides end-to-end LLM training data and benchmarking. She recounts her path from 20 years as a maths teacher and vice principal into data annotation via maths olympiad tasks, assembling ~40 elite annotators and scaling from a $200k/month operation to $1.6M revenue in six months, mostly taken from competitors. She argues incumbent workflows inherited from autonomous-vehicle labeling punish sending tasks forward and make teams ~5x less efficient, and says her goal is to force incumbents to fix their processes rather than capture the entire ~$10B market. Afterward the hosts react, musing that competitors may end up needing to acquire Poindexter.

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