Rapidata
Reinforcement Learning · LLM & Generative AI
$8.5Mlatest round · Seed · Feb 2026 · 8 mo ago
2backers · Plug and Play, BlueYard Capital
200+team · employees, estimated range
2023founded
Overview
Crowd-intelligence labeling and evaluation. Real human feedback for model evaluation, RLHF, and dataset annotation, in days instead of months.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$8.5M
1 round on record
Latest round
$8.5M
Seed · Feb 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Backers
2
Plug and Play, BlueYard Capital
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
20/100
fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 20
Raised a round Seed $8.5M · TNW Startups-technology
Jun 2, 2024
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: I made a tool that lets you collect large amounts of human inputs fast
2023
Founded
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Feb 2026 | $8.5M | — | TNW Startups-technology |
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Financials
Total raised
$8.5M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2026 | $8.5M | Details |
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News
Rapidata: $8.5 Million Seed Funding Closed For Scaling Global Human Feedback Network
Rapidata announced it has raised an $8.5 million seed round to accelerate AI development by scaling on-demand human feedback for model training and evaluation. The round was co-led by Canaan Partners and IA Ventures, with participation from Acequia Capita
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Zurich's Rapidata raises €7.2M to build a real-time human feedback network for AI
Zurich-based Rapidata raised €7.2M to build a global human feedback network that speeds up AI model training with real-time human judgment.
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Rapidata.ai is Has Eliminated the Biggest Bottleneck in AI Development - Human Feedback
Rapidata raises $8.5M to scale on-demand human feedback for AI, helping teams collect global data faster and accelerate model iteration and deployment
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Rapidata emerges to shorten AI model development cycles from months to days with near real-time RLHF
Rapidata treats RLHF as high-speed infrastructure rather than a manual labor problem. Today, the company exclusively announced to us at VentureBeat its emergence with an $8.5 million seed
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Rapidata/OpenAI-4o_t2i_human_preference Datasets at Hugging Face
We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Rapidata/text-2-image-Rich-Human-Feedback Datasets at Hugging Face
We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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NASDAQ Buys RapiData
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Zurich
Switzerland
HQ
200-500 est. staff