Kled AI Raises $5.5M to Build Human Data Marketplace

Background on Kled AI and the data economy

Kled AI was founded in 2024 by entrepreneur Avi Patel along with co-founder and CTO Elie Dev. The startup was created to address one of the largest challenges in artificial intelligence development: access to high-quality and legally licensable datasets.

Most AI models today rely heavily on web-scraped data or proprietary collections gathered by large technology companies. This approach has raised growing concerns around copyright, privacy, and consent.

Kled AI takes a different approach by allowing individuals to voluntarily upload personal datasets through a consumer application. These datasets are then organized into structured collections that can be licensed to AI companies for training models.

The concept positions personal data as an asset that users can control and monetize directly.

Kled AI Raises $5.5M to Build Human Data Marketplace

Kled AI Raises $5.5M to Build Human Data Marketplace through a seed funding round led by several high-profile investors.

Participants in the round include:

• Sebastian Thrun, founder of Waymo
• Aglaé Ventures, backed by Bernard Arnault’s family office
• K5 Global
• Parable Ventures
• Cox Exponential (CX2)

The round also attracted support from several prominent individuals including musician Diplo, MSCHF founder Daniel Greenberg, and Harrison Shih from DoorDash Labs. With this funding, the company plans to expand its engineering team and accelerate development of its consumer data marketplace.

Rapid growth of the Kled AI app

The Kled AI mobile app has seen rapid adoption since launch.

According to the company, the platform has already collected more than 12,000 structured datasets across multiple categories. These include:

• Egocentric data such as daily-life recordings
• Medical imaging and scans
• Urban mobility and travel data
• Multimedia datasets including images and video

Users contribute files through simple in-app tasks and are rewarded based on the quality and demand of their data. By early 2026, the app reached the number one ranking in the finance category in four countries.

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How the Kled AI data marketplace works

The Kled platform operates as a two-sided marketplace connecting individuals and AI companies. Users upload personal datasets through the mobile app by completing tasks such as scanning documents, recording video footage, or sharing other forms of data.

These uploads are aggregated into structured datasets. AI companies can then license these datasets for model training.

Participants receive compensation depending on the demand and value of their contributions. According to the company, some users have reportedly earned as much as $7,400 per month. The platform also includes privacy controls that allow users to manage how their data is shared or anonymized.

Why AI companies need structured datasets

Artificial intelligence models require massive amounts of high-quality training data to improve performance.

As AI development accelerates, the demand for diverse datasets continues to grow. However, many technology companies are facing legal challenges related to the use of scraped content for training.

Platforms like Kled aim to solve this issue by creating legally licensed datasets that are voluntarily contributed by individuals. This approach may reduce regulatory risk while giving users ownership and control over how their data is used.