Meet The Stanford AI Lab Alums That Raised $15 Million To Optimize Machine Learning In 2019, after spending five years developing a ML platform at Stanford's AI Lab, the research team decided to spin out of the lab and create a company called Snorkel AI. Today, Snorkel AI came out of stealth mode announcing it had raised $15 million from investors like Greylock, GV, and In-Q-Tel.