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Luel is a human-data infrastructure company operating a rights-cleared data marketplace and collection engine for multimodal AI training data. Customers submit a dataset spec (modality, scenario, instructions, devices, QA rules); Luel scopes the project, recruits from a vetted global contributor network of 500K+ people across ~100 countries, runs multi-stage QA, and delivers licensed, audit-ready datasets (video, audio, images, screen recordings, sensor streams) within days, with new campaigns deployable in under 24 hours. Customers include generative AI labs, robotics companies, major social platforms, universities, hospitals, banks and ML research groups. Revenue comes from custom datasets, an off-the-shelf catalog, and marketplace listings. Luel is part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.

Seed · $31M · 2026-05

OmicsBank deploys software behind hospital firewalls to clean, standardize (FHIR / OMOP CDM) and de-identify fragmented EHR, DICOM imaging, digital pathology and genomic/multi-omics data at the source, turning it into research-ready longitudinal patient datasets. Its customers are pharma and biotech companies, CROs, health systems and frontier AI labs, who use the data for drug discovery, real-world evidence studies, disease-enriched cohort selection and clinical AI model training. The company targets a structural bias in biomedical data: South Asia is nearly 25% of the world's population but accounts for 2% or less of participants in global genomic and GWAS studies.

Seed · 2026-08

SignSplit, founded in 2024 as a Delaware public benefit corporation by Alessandro Monterosso and Glib Denisov, runs a "signed data" platform where individuals and organizations set licensing terms and provenance for their data, works and digital likenesses, and AI/robotics companies and research institutions source purpose-built data pools; contributors are paid under those terms.

Seed · 2026-10 · Valuation $1.0B

Kaiyu Data (Kai望数据), founded in 2022 in Beijing, builds an AI data automation platform and provides one-stop AI data solutions for automakers, autonomous driving companies, and other cross-industry enterprises.

Strategic · $21M · 2026-08

Shututech, founded in 2024 in Shenzhen, China, develops intelligent decision-making systems and multimodal embodied data collection and modeling technology for robotics. Its SynaData pipeline extracts high-precision multimodal embodied training data from monocular internet video.

Series A · $689K · 2026-09

Veridion, formerly Soleadify, is a Bucharest-based company founded in 2019 that uses AI to build a continuously updated database of about 640 million businesses across 249 countries and territories, serving market intelligence, credit, insurance, procurement and compliance customers such as Experian.

Series A · $28M · 2026-09

Perceptron (Perceptron Network) is a ~2024-founded decentralized AI-data-infrastructure startup with a UK/UAE/Israel team. It condenses global data collection into a single contributor mesh, letting AI companies commission specific, human-verified datasets on-demand via its data-questing platform, delivered in days by ~800K nodes and 300K+ daily contributors across 150+ countries at ~90% lower cost than centralized data vendors. It merged with the 700K-node BlockMesh network in June 2025 to form an end-to-end DePIN data pipeline with token incentives.

Strategic · $7M · 2026-07

Dealroom.co runs a private-market intelligence platform out of Amsterdam, founded in 2013 by former investment banker Yoram Wijngaarde. It sells structured data on startups, scale-ups, investors and technology ecosystems to venture funds, corporates and public-sector clients. The pipeline pairs machine learning and data engineering with human verification: entities are extracted and normalised from news, company registers and investor portfolios, then reviewed in-house. Dealroom says it covers more than three million companies with over a hundred data points each. A second line of business builds public-facing ecosystem maps for more than a hundred regional tech communities worldwide, which doubles as a proprietary data channel. Government agencies and trade registers across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia are among its partners. It competes with PitchBook, Crunchbase and CB Insights.

Undisclosed · 2026-01

YOU Identity (YOUID, whoyouare.ai) is a personal data ownership and monetization platform: individuals decide whether their personal data may be shared and get paid when they opt in, addressing third parties monetizing people's data without consent or compensation. Users can reserve a ".you" identifier and join a referral-based waitlist.