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Marketplace for rights-cleared, multimodal AI training data

San Francisco, United StatesFounded 2025AI
Valuation $100–250M Last recorded · 2026
Headcount 100–500 Current team size
Total funding $10–50M Disclosed equity funding
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About Luel

Luel operates as a specialized two-sided marketplace for high-quality, rights-cleared training data for artificial intelligence models. The platform connects AI companies and developers with a network of vetted contributors who create and upload multimodal content, including videos, voice recordings, and audio files.

For enterprise clients, Luel offers a catalog of ready-to-license datasets and the ability to request custom data collections tailored to specific needs, such as training speech-to-text, computer vision, or multimodal assistant models. The company ensures all data is quality-audited, compliant with consent and privacy regulations, and delivered with structured metadata. Enterprise services include dedicated account management and flexible licensing models.

For individual contributors, the platform provides an opportunity to earn income by uploading content that meets specific requirements from AI companies. The process involves finding a suitable task, creating and uploading the content, and receiving payment after the submission is approved. Luel's business model is centered on the sale and licensing of this curated data, facilitating the development of more accurate and robust AI systems by providing the necessary fuel for machine learning.

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At a glance

Status
Operational
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Employees
3
Open positions
None listed
Dealroom signal
54.8/100
Industry
Enterprise Software
Sector
AI, Core AI, MLops, AI Data Preparation and Generation, YC W26
Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Business model
SaaS
Client focus
b2b

Funding history

2 recorded events

Company financing events and reported valuations.

Deal typeDateAmountValuationInvestorsSource
SEED✓Equity / VC May 2026 $32M $126M Orange Collective · Lightspeed Venture Partners · General Catalyst · Paul Graham ↗
SEED✓Equity / VC Jan 2026 $125K $500K Y Combinator —
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Growth signals

Luel website traffic

Latest recorded traffic for Luel is 980K monthly website visits, down 53.3% over the last three months. Luel's team grew 0% over the past year.

Latest monthly visits980K 3-month web change-53.3% 1-year team growth0%
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Investments and acquisitions

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Investors

6 investors on the cap table

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Seed6 investors entered at this stage

Team profiled 5 named & role-tagged
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Key operators 2 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
8 countries with
team presence
🇮🇳 India27.3%
🇺🇸 United States27.3%
🇳🇬 Nigeria24.2%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom9.1%
🇬🇭 Ghana3%
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Market sentiment

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