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Mercor

HR Tech · San Francisco, US · mercor.com

Human-in-the-loop AI platform that recruits and manages experts for training AI models.

Founders

Brendan Foody (United States · ♂) — A Bay Area debate-team friend and Thiel Fellow who dropped out of Georgetown to build Mercor, an AI-powered platform for sourcing and evaluating talent.
Adarsh Hiremath (United States · ♂) — A Harvard computer-science and ML researcher who left college as a Thiel Fellow to co-found Mercor with his high-school debate teammates.
Surya Midha (United States · ♂) — A Georgetown dropout and Thiel Fellow who co-founded Mercor with childhood friends to match human talent to AI work.

People & leadership

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Oct 2025	Series C Mercor raised $350 million at a $10 billion valuation for its expert platform for AI training.	$350M
Sep 2024	Series A San Francisco AI hiring platform Mercor raised a $30M Series A at a $250M valuation led by Benchmark.	$30M

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