
Our Mission: We’re bringing humanity to artificial intelligence. Born from AI veterans from Scale, Amazon, Meta, MIT, and beyond, Perle is passionate about empowering teams to bring human wisdom to…

Our Mission: We’re bringing humanity to artificial intelligence. Born from AI veterans from Scale, Amazon, Meta, MIT, and beyond, Perle is passionate about empowering teams to bring human wisdom to…
What they do: Provides expert-led training data, evaluation, and red-team services for multimodal AI systems
Founded: March 2024 (originally as Kiva AI); rebranded to Perle in February 2025
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Network size: Claims ~15,000 vetted experts across ~70 countries
Funding: Announced $9M seed led by Framework Ventures (Aug 7, 2025); total disclosed funding reported as $17.5M
Training data, model evaluation, and safety/red‑teaming for multimodal AI systems
2024
Technology, Information and Internet
USD 9,000,000
Perle announced this round and stated it brought total funding to USD 17.5M
USD 8,500,000
Announced earlier round reported as ~USD 8.5M led by CoinFund
“Institutional crypto-native and VC interest (e.g., Framework Ventures, CoinFund) including participation in seed/pre-seed rounds”
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About Perle Perle powers the most ambitious AI initiatives in the world with human intelligence at scale. We work with the world’s leading model builders and enterprises to deliver expert-in-the-loop data, model evaluation, and trust systems that make AI safe, responsible, efficient and exceptionally high-performing.
Our clients don’t buy software, they buy outcomes: accuracy, reliability, and defensibility.
We’re an early-stage, founder-led company operating in the highest-stakes markets of AI. Every hire defines how we win.
The Opportunity
We are assembling a closed, invitation-level network of exceptional scientific minds to contribute to frontier AI systems at the highest level of rigor.
This is not annotation. This is scientific adjudication.
We are selecting 10 individuals per discipline in:
Mathematics
Physics
Neuroscience
Chemistry
Admission is limited. Standards are uncompromising.
The Profile
Examples Of The Caliber We Seek
The Work
Selected researchers will:
Evaluate advanced scientific reasoning produced by state-of-the-art AI systems
Assess multi-step derivations, proofs, theoretical arguments, and domain-specific outputs
Identify subtle conceptual flaws or logical inconsistencies
Provide research-grade corrective feedback
This requires deep subject mastery. Surface familiarity is insufficient. The standard is publication-level rigor.
Why this is Distinct
Minimum Threshold Candidates Must Demonstrate The Following
All credentials will be verified. A technical screening will assess depth of reasoning. Selection is competitive and limited to a small cohort per field.
Our Positioning We are building a network of the most accomplished scientific researchers in developing regions, individuals whose academic records match global standards and whose intellectual drive makes them exceptional contributors to frontier AI systems.
If you believe your credentials and analytical rigor place you among the strongest researchers in your field, we invite you to apply.
Application Submission If you believe your credentials and analytical rigor place you among the strongest researchers in your field, we invite you to submit your formal application.
Please complete the required data form to begin the confidential review process: https://forms.gle/4zF93iDXnSRN35YL7.
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