Can Data Guardians Network Reshape AI Ethics With Nvidia?
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Published Time: 2025-09-25T17:00:00Z
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Can Data Guardians Network Reshape AI Ethics With Nvidia?
September 25, 2025
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Data Guardians Network has joined Nvidia's Elite Start-Up Program with the aim of scaling AI data governance through decentralised, human systems
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Data Guardians Network has secured a place in Nvidia's selective Inception programme, marking a milestone for the four-month-old startup specialising in AI data governance.
The company, which is developing the world's first Provable Data Governance Framework, joins a programme designed to nurture startups that are advancing AI and data science technologies.
A more human approach to data collection
Data Guardians Network's approach focuses on obtaining AI training datasets from decentralised human contributors, moving away from traditional web scraping methods.
The platform employs gamified interfaces across mobile, web and Telegram applications, enabling users to contribute data and receive immediate payments in USDT cryptocurrency.
Covering multiple data types including image recognition, voice and video understanding, and lip-sync data, the company targets enterprise clients requiring verified datasets.
"Joining Nvidia Inception is a milestone in our mission to build the trusted data layer for AI," says Johanna Cabildo, CEO of Data Guardians Network.
Johanna Cabildo, CEO of Data Guardians Network
The story of Data Guardians Network
Data Guardians Network has secured US$5m in pre-seed funding and established partnerships, including one with DroppGroup.
This collaboration resulted in training AI models that understand the risks of intellectual property infringement, utilizing five million data points covering patents, trademarks and licensing disputes across more than 60 jurisdictions.
DroppGroup implemented these models with enterprise clients including Saudi Aramco and Cisco, using platforms such as LLaMA and aMiGO in real-world production environments.
"D-GN isn't just a crowdsourcing tool – it's live data infrastructure," says Areeb Masood, Head of Enterprise Deployment at DroppGroup. "It let us continuously train models like LLaMA-3, while live deployments with our clients stayed accurate, audit-proof and protected in real time."
Areeb Masood, Head of Enterprise Deployment at DroppGroup
The future of data governance in the AI sphere
The partnership emerges as enterprises face increasing scrutiny over AI training data sources and ethical considerations around dataset compilation.
Data Guardians Network's approach addresses concerns about consent, bias and data quality that often arise with traditional AI training methods based on scraped internet content.
"We're creating the job role of the future, establishing human-verified data to make AI systems trustworthy and useful," Johanna explains.
The company's inclusion in Nvidia's programme provides access to technical resources and market networks, supporting its expansion plans.
"It's been a whirlwind 4 months for D-GN," says Richard Johnson, the firm's COO. "From zero, to our US$5m raise, to Nvidia Inception."
Richard Johnson, COO of Data Guardians Network
"This isn't just about speed though," Richard continues"
"It's proof that building the trusted data layer for AI is no longer optional, it's urgent.
"AI won't cross from mimicry into reasoning without provable, human-verified data infrastructure."
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