Today, we’re announcing our $5.5M Seed round to build the first human data marketplace. Backed by Sebastian Thrun (Founder of Waymo), Aglaé (Venture Fund of Bernard Arnault), K5 Global, Diplo, Parable VC, Cox Exponential (CX2), Daniel Greenberg (Founder of MSCHF), Harrison Shih (DoorDash Labs), Kent Lacob (Owner of Golden State Warriors), and more. This brings our total financing to $9 million. (Thread)

This raise follows the explosive growth of our consumer app, which has hit number 1 on the app store in 4 countries (Finance Category). Our users are now uploading anywhere from 3 - 4.5 million files per day. With our top earner making $7,400 per month. We’ve collected 12,000+ structured datasets created spanning egocentric data, medical data (e.g., radiology scans), urban travel data, etc. Several leading AI labs and enterprises are now actively purchasing our user-generated datasets for frontier model training.

This group of investors also unlocks hundreds of previously locked doors to some of the leading AI labs, robotics companies, consumer brands, and more, which will allow us to present thousands of new data tasks to the hundreds of thousands of data contributors on the Kled app. A huge thank you to our other existing investors: Luca Netz (Founder of Pudgy Penguins), 24kGoldn, Abe Burns (Slow Rush Ventures), Adam Cohen (Founder of Stic), Everbloom, Ricky Horwitz (Former CMO of Pika), Magic Labs, A16Z Scout, Bain Scout, Zach Greenberger (Former CBO of Lyft), Max Marchione (Founder of Superpower), Paul Yacoubian (Founder of Copy AI), PandaBoi, and everyone else!