Articles from Rapidata
Rapidata, a company that accelerates AI development through scalable, on-demand data labeling via digital ads, today announced an $8.5 million seed round co-led by Canaan Partners and IA Ventures with participation from Acequia Capital and BlueYard. The AI infrastructure and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) startup is tackling one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks: the slow, manual process of collecting large-scale human feedback to train and improve models. Its technology delivers fast, global, on-demand human data, cutting timelines from weeks to hours. The funding will be used to scale Rapidata’s global human data network and support growing demand from AI companies that need faster, more reliable feedback to train, validate, and improve their models in an increasingly competitive market.
By Rapidata · Via Business Wire · February 19, 2026