Spintop Ventures invests $2M in 3LC as enterprise traction accelerates

Boulder, CO & Oslo, Norway – February 16, 2026 3LC (www.3lc.ai), the data-centric AI platform company transforming how enterprises build and deploy computer vision models, today announced a $2 million investment from Swedish early-stage technology investor Spintop Ventures.   Spintop Ventures is a leading Nordic VC firm investing in software-driven technology companies in seed stage. […]

Rebecca McDonald
Rebecca McDonald

Breaking the Human Accuracy Barrier in Computer Vision Labeling

Introduction There’s been a lot of excitement lately around how foundation models (such as CLIP, SAM, Grounding DINO, etc.) can come close to human-level performance when labeling common objects, saving a ton of labeling effort and cost. It’s impressive progress. However, it raises an important question: should human performance be used as the ceiling? And […]

Rebecca McDonald
Rebecca McDonald

Scaling an Instance Segmentation Dataset with Active Labeling in 3LC

How we turned 310 labeled fish into tens of thousands – all in a day’s work. The DeepFish dataset comprises nearly 40,000 video frames of fish in diverse ocean habitats. Available at the dataset website, it offers labels for classification, localization, and segmentation tasks. While the entire dataset includes fish/no-fish classification labels, the initial segmentation […]

Rebecca McDonald
Rebecca McDonald

Nexar Dashcam Kaggle Challenge

The Nexar Dashcam Crash Prediction Challenge presented a compelling task: predict whether a collision or near-collision event is imminent based on dashcam video footage. The training dataset comprised 1,500 real-world driving videos, each approximately 40 seconds long, annotated with precise timestamps for both the event (collision or near-collision) and the earliest moment it could be […]

Rebecca McDonald
Rebecca McDonald

Exploring the COCO Dataset

Our CEO, Paul, grabbed his digital mop and started cleaning the COCO dataset in his spare time, and came out with insights (and maybe a few data-cleaning bruises). Learn how we’re turning chaos into clarity and having a blast doing it.

Paul Endresen
Paul Endresen
3LC
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