Raised $10M across disclosed rounds.[4]

Latest round closed January 2026.[4]

Round size, post-money valuation, and the full investor list are not publicly disclosed.

Nirmal Krishnan, Co-Founder and CEO[1][3]

Alexander Fung, Co-Founder and CTO[1][3]

David Wu Finkelstein, Creative Director[1]

AfterQuery · afterquery.com · Same buyer and same budget line: frontier AI labs buying expert-authored training data, rubrics, and computer-use trajectories. RL List ranks it in the same dedicated commercial vendor category as Chakra's environment and trajectory business.[16]

Surge AI · surgehq.ai · Same buyer and budget line: frontier model developers purchasing expert-authored training and evaluation data. Basis is inferred from Chakra's stated role as a data supplier to model developers; no cited source names Surge directly.[2]

Scale AI · scale.com · Same buyer and job to be done: outsourced task authoring, grading, and evaluation for model training. Basis is inferred from Chakra's positioning; no cited source names Scale directly.[2]

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[1]

Ask for one referenceable production customer.

Not a recommendation. The first thing this ledger cannot answer.

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