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Snorkel AI Series C

Label The World | Reviewed by Sulianne Jhepherd | January 12, 2026
5.6
Deal Information
Company: Snorkel AI
Round: Series C
Amount: $138M
Valuation: $1B
Date: August 2022
Investors: Lightspeed, Greylock
Sector: Enterprise

The Series C for Snorkel AI lands in that uncomfortable middle ground where you can't call it genius or catastrophe. Lightspeed, Greylock are deploying $138M at $1B, which feels like a price negotiated by people who read the same three analyst reports and decided to split the difference. label the world—that's literally what they're betting on. The enterprise thesis makes sense on a whiteboard, but the execution risk is substantial and the competitive moat is more of a competitive puddle. Will this work? Maybe. Will early investors get liquidity? Eventually. Will anyone remember this deal in five years? Absolutely not.

VERDICT: Label The World valued at $1B—either visionary timing or expensive optimism.