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David AI

David AI is an audio data research company that aims to bring AI into the real world through voice, the most important interface to human interaction.

withdavid.ai · San Francisco

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StageSeries BOctober 2025 · led by Meritech[5]
Raised$81Mdisclosed rounds[4]
Headcount119as of Oct 2026[4]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2024[4]
Money

Raised $81M across disclosed rounds.[4]

Series B closed October 2025, led by Meritech.[5]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Meritech, NVIDIA, Alt Capital, First Round Capital, Amplify Partners, Y Combinator, BoxGroup, SV Angel, Liquid 2.[5][6][7]

People

Tomer Cohen, Founder/CEO[1][17][4][12][18]

Ben Wiley, Co-founder and CTO[1][17][4][12][18]

Abhinav Tripathi, Data Product Operations Lead[4][12][1][17][18]

Aditya Pattani, Product & Operations Lead[4][12][1][17][18]

Ajay S., Quality&Team lead[4][12][1][17][18]

Alexander Borovoy, Founding Marketplace Lead[4][12][1][17][18]

Alexia Hernandez, PhD, Product Operations Lead[4][12][1][17][18]

Amy Li, BizOps Lead[4][12][1][17][18]

Anthony G. Lombardi, Data Science Lead[4][12][1][17][18]

Chasen White, Head of Operations[4][12][1][17][18]

Chris Marty, VP, People & Talent[4][12][1][17][18]

Signals
Oct 8 2025fundingAnnouncing Our $50M Series B Led by Meritech company claim, not independently confirmed[5]
May 22 2025fundingAnnouncing Our $25M Series A Led by Alt Capital company claim, not independently confirmed[6]
Jan 16 2025fundingAnnouncing Our $5M Seed Round Led by First Round company claim, not independently confirmed[7]
Comps

Scale AI · scale.com · Named together in the same market map: Sacra's analysis states the closest comparables in AI training data are firms like Scale AI, Surge AI, and Prolific, which sell human generated inputs and evaluations for model training, with David AI as the audio...[14]

Surge AI · surgehq.ai · Named together in the same market map: Sacra's analysis states the closest comparables in AI training data are firms like Scale AI, Surge AI, and Prolific, which sell human generated inputs and evaluations for model training, with David AI as the audio...[14]

Prolific · prolific.com · Named together in the same market map: Sacra's analysis states the closest comparables in AI training data are firms like Scale AI, Surge AI, and Prolific, which sell human generated inputs and evaluations for model training, with David AI as the audio...[14]

Defined.ai · defined.ai · Listed by CB Insights as a top David AI competitor, with a direct comparison page (David AI vs. Defined.ai). Same buyer (AI and ML teams sourcing training data) and same job to be done (procuring AI training data).[13]

Magic Data · magicdatatech.com · Listed by CB Insights as a top David AI competitor, with a direct comparison page (David AI vs. Magic Data). Same buyer (AI teams sourcing training datasets) and same job to be done (training datasets plus annotation services).[13]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[5]

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David AI

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David AI is an audio data research company that aims to bring AI into the real world through voice, the most important interface to human interaction.

withdavid.ai · San Francisco

StageSeries B
Raised$81M
Headcount119
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2024
CompsScale AI +4

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