SignSplit exits stealth with $400M seed round at $1B valuation
What's the deal? SignSplitDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has raised $400 million in a seed round led by W Group, emerging from stealth at a $1 billion valuation. The Delaware-based public benefit corporation, incorporated two years ago, is building infrastructure for what it calls the "signed-data economy."
What's the endgame? SignSplit lets people and institutions protect, license, and contribute their data, work, and likeness to companies training artificial intelligence. The platform manages consent, provenance, rights, and compensation, so contributors share in the value their data creates.
Why now? The company argues the next generation of AI will depend on real-world human data across models, robotics, science, healthcare, and media. "AI was already learning from the data produced by billions of people," without infrastructure letting them participate in the resulting economy, co-founder and chief executive officer Alessandro Monterosso said (translated from Italian).
The round includes equity plus a multi-year package of strategic resources to accelerate the platform's build-out, distribution, and international growth. W Group, a global fintech and technology ecosystem serving more than 40 million users, was the sole participant.
Who's behind it? Monterosso, an Italian entrepreneur born in 1990, trained as a nurse researcher and worked in pediatric oncology trials before co-founding PatchAiDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a clinical-trials data startup sold in 2021. He runs SignSplit with Glib Denisov, its founder, executive chairman, and chief product officer.
The platform is currently invitation-only, operating a waitlist. It centres on four actions: signing data to establish consent and provenance; licensing or contributing it to data and research pools; splitting the value through compensation; and verifying what has been signed.
The signal: At $400 million, this ranks above roughly 99% of all seed rounds ever recorded in enterprise software, based on a sample of more than 28,000 deals. The size reflects how hard investors are betting on the scramble to source legitimate, consented human data for AI — and on the idea that the people generating it should get paid.
Read more: forbes.it, signsplit.com, prnewswire.com
Image credit: SignSplit Inc.
