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FULL $KLED SEGMENT w/@useKled & @avipat_ 👇 Funding momentum: • Viral moment helped lock in a $5.5M raise, Avi got it closed! • Backers include Waymo founder, a16z, Bain Capital, Aglae, Warriors ownership group Business traction: • $35M contracts in pipeline, could reach $50M+ ARR potential • Multi-million contracts already live in the KLED app • Example interesting contract: $20M robotics data contract, to have the hands in video of house work. Product + demand: • Users capture real-world data for AI training via wearable hardware (wrist cams, phone mounts, etc.) • Some creators earning ~$7K/month completing data tasks Network growth: • 300K users signed up • 5M uploads, tracking toward 7M/day • Avg user uploads 30–50 images/day Distribution: • Partnership with @whop to tap into 15M users • No explicit buyback promises • Benchmark: $25M ARR needed for ~$750M Series A valuation.

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)





we built the largest opt in human data collection effort in history. - 3 million files uploaded daily - 200,000+ data contributors in 2 weeks - data contributors earning up to $6,400 per month 12,000+ structured datasets created spanning egocentric data, medical data (e.g., radiology scans), urban travel data, etc. all collected through distributed human-in-the-loop capture. (thread)




