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Upriver, founded in 2024 in San Francisco, USA, deploys AI agents that connect to enterprise data systems to automatically discover and fix data quality issues, maintain data pipelines, and create new datasets, targeting enterprise data teams to address the high labor cost of data quality maintenance.

Seed · $14M · 2026-06

Refuel.ai, founded in 2021 in San Francisco, USA, uses LLMs to automate the creation and labeling of datasets for various business use cases.

Seed · $5M · 2023-06

Nomadic, founded in 2024 in San Francisco, converts autonomous vehicle and robotics footage into structured, searchable datasets for training and evaluation.

Seed · $17M · 2026-04

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

Integer Intelligence, founded in 2020 in Hangzhou, China, is a data management services provider.

Series A · $7M · 2024-08

Spatial-intelligence and synthetic-data provider for embodied AI; develops its own tactile data-collection devices and tactile foundation models, supplying synthetic training data for robotics and autonomous driving.

Angel · 2026-07

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

Human Native AI, founded in 2024 in London, UK, helps film studios, record labels, and other rights holders earn revenue when their content is used for AI training.

Undisclosed · $4M · 2024-06

Heex, founded in 2019 in Paris, France, helps process and analyze the large volumes of data generated by autonomous vehicles.

Seed · $7M · 2024-01

Spike, founded in 2022 in Lithuania, helps healthcare organizations manage and analyze health data using generative AI, with a health data API aggregator platform that pulls biomarker data from 300 sources.

Seed · $4M · 2024-06

Odigos, founded in 2022 in Tel Aviv, automates distributed tracing using open-source technologies to simplify detection of performance issues in complex data systems.

Undisclosed · $13M · 2024-09

Config, founded in 2025 in Seoul, South Korea and San Jose, California, USA, develops training data infrastructure for robotics foundation models.

Seed · $35M · 2026-05 · Valuation $200M