
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.
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