Super excited to announce Perle Labs has raised $17.5m in total funding, with our $9M seed round led by Framework Ventures! Frontier AI models are improving rapidly with improvements in compute and algorithms, but the lack of quality data remains a bottleneck.

Great team over at Perle Labs and looking forward to awesome opps with their product!

We’re proud to have seeded Perle Labs as one of our early AI investments. Amazed at what the team has accomplished so far.

1/ We just co-led a $9M round in Perle Labs, an AI training data platform powered by crypto that brings human wisdom to AI models. Led by Ahmed Rashad, Perle has now raised $17.5 million across their seed and pre-seed rounds. A brief thread 🧵👇

Big One Here Perle Labs adds $9M in seed funding, pushing total raise to $17.5M. 🚨 This is an early project that has been on my radar for a while now. Perle Labs is building an infrastructure layer that lets humans and machines collaborate better during AI model training. It

Congratulations to Perle on raising a $9M seed round. At CoinFund, we're proud pre-seed funders of Ahmed Rashad and team, and we are excited about the intersection of AI and web3!

Super thrilled for CoinFund to continue supporting Ahmed Rashad and the Perle team as they accelerate the scope, quality, and pace of commercial progress of Perle’s data services, and deepen the alignment with web3 in the next phase of growth!

The intersection of web3 and AI looks like humans being rewarded for training models. Dig in with Perle Labs Founder Ahmed Rashad in our upcoming spaces hosted by CoinFund Founder and CEO Jake Brukhman and Partner and Director of Research Evan Feng ⬇️ x.com/i/spaces/1YqKD…

AI doesn’t need more data; it needs better data. As Arthur Ding shared, sometimes 100 well-annotated samples beat 10,000 bad ones.

Open Intelligence Day - KBW 2025 Seoul. 24 Sep A one-day forum connecting builders, researchers, and investors at the frontier of AI × distributed systems. Special shoutout to our partners: Pantera Capital Superteam Korea Story Perle Labs Supermoon 🟣 and media

Welcome Arthur Ding, CCO of Perle Labs, at AI Creators Summit. 🕛 24 September | 1-6 PM KST 📍 luma.com/q4vmmhzd

5/ 🤖 Panel 3: “DeFAI and Beyond: Building the Autonomous Economy” DeFAI is more than a buzzword. It’s the blueprint for an autonomous, AI-powered economy. Hear bold ideas from Jaden | 💙, Han Jin, Arthur Ding, Ram, and Jeremy Millar.

We’re excited to announce Panel 2: “Data & Privacy in an AI World” at AI Creators Summit during #KBW2025. 🕛 24 September | 3:40-4:10 PM KST 📍 luma.com/q4vmmhzd Speakers: evin, Co-Founder of Billions matt b, VP, Growth of FLock.io Arthur Ding, CCO of

Annotating data, but make it Solana speed ⚡️ Perle Labs → now building on Solana.

AI is only as good as the data that trains it 🤖 Welcome Perle -- shipping a marketplace for AI data, powered by Solana

@EricY_me From Data to Intelligence The panel unpacked how to measure data quality for AI, how to incentivize contributors, and debated the balance between meaningful input and noise. Featuring: -Joules Barragan (@thisisjoules) VP Marketing Sahara AI | SaharaAI.com 🔆 -Arthur Ding Arthur Ding, CCO

The wait is over. The Perle Labs beta is now live. AI doesn’t train itself. Every model learns from human insight, and now that layer is finally being recognized and rewarded. Built on Solana. Powered by contributors like you.