Data infrastructure

Prolific

Website
Founded 2014Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Prolific helps dedicated research teams to collect the very highest-quality human-powered data - at scale - using our simple-to-use platform to target and manage participants from our diverse, vetted participant pool.

The truth matters: the best decisions, and biggest discoveries, are built on the highest-quality data. And with the increasing proliferation of AI, access to reliable, diverse data to develop and train AI models has never been more important.

Created by researchers for researchers, Prolific was founded to provide a better way for researchers and organisations to get high-quality human data and feedback at scale for important research.

Now, more than 30,000 researchers across academia and industry use Prolific to gather definitive human data and feedback from reliable, engaged and fairly-treated participants – with a new study launched every 3 minutes.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Phelim Bradley

Founder

Co-Founder and CEO of prolific.co.Prolific is a platform that makes it easy to run high quality online research. We manage a diverse pool of 100,000+ verified participants and provide access to an ecosystem of tools to run research on them. Previously, I did a PhD in Bioinformatics, where I wrote software to analyze and search bacterial data sets using graph data structures.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
180team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2014 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthenriched profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedLondon, England, United Kingdom
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Operating · 4 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

The company website explicitly reports customer or user adoption. This is a source-based assessment of a company claim; scale and revenue are not independently verified.

Company website: home Checked 2026-09-16

Trusted by thousands of organizations

Maturity is an evidence-based assessment, not a success rating. It may understate the current stage where evidence is limited. Coverage records documented areas, not a complete or independently audited company history.

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