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Nitski: RL environments are Mercor's fastest-growing data modality
“The data type that's growing the fastest for us is environments.”
Nitski: Mercor sees rapidly growing demand for cybersecurity AI data
“We see very Rapidly increasing demand for cyber defensive capabilities via data, and very interesting data types”
Mercor shifts human data services to RL environments across modalities
“The data types also change very frequently. So we're, we've moved from supervised fine tuning to preference ranking to Rubric based annotation to now RL environments across a whole bunch of different modalities.”
Mercor Straps Cameras to Electricians and Scientists for AI Training Data
“We're doing a ton of data collection in the physical world as well, especially across skilled domains where you have electricians and mechanics and scientists strapping cameras to their head to record things.”
Foody: Mercor's AI agent has conducted over 5M interviews
“We have our interview question agent that where we've done over five million interviews and ask all the questions in the interviews.”
Foody: Three former Mercor employees founded $100M+ startups
“We've had Three employees that have founded companies worth in excess of a hundred million dollars.”
General Catalyst issued Mercor's seed term sheet at $23M valuation
“They gave us a term sheet within 36 hours for 2.3 million dollars at a twenty three million dollar post-money valuation.”
Mercor engineers rely heavily on Cursor, Claude Code, and Cognition
“Like, the amount of utility that our engineers get from Cursor and Cloud Code and Cognition is incredible, and same thing for-”
Lazarte: I would not have invested in Mercor without Brex
“Frankly, I don't think I would have invested in Mercor if I hadn't invested in Brex.”
Hiremath: Mercor founders dropped out before raising seed or getting Thiel Fellowships
“No seed round, a little bit of revenue, no series A, no Teal Fellowship, nothing. We were just three friends working in a small office in Palo Alto with our amazing team in India.”
Hiremath: Mercor's AI Interviewer Can Launch in Under 10 Seconds
“You can literally spin up this interview in under 10 seconds.”
Hiremath: Top AI labs use Mercor to hire talent for model post-training
“It looks exactly the same as placing someone to work at any company, right? So just like Mercore might work with startups making their first hires or companies hiring in a more traditional full-time capacity. It's the exact same thing for a lot of the large AI…”
Hiremath: Mercor is moving toward fully automating its internal hiring process
“Maybe running our entire, you know, internal hiring process for Mercore in a completely automated way, meaning Brandon, Surya, and I don't even talk to someone when they come into the office, and then we walk in the conference room to meet them the first time,…”
Hiremath: Mercor's board consists only of its co-founders and Benchmark
“It's, you know, Brendan, Suri, and I, and Benchmark on the board.”
Mercor Founders Paid Themselves $500 per Month Before Seed Funding
“We changed our like salaries and gusto to 500 dollars a month.”
Hiremath: Mercor originally launched as a software development shop
“Brendon Suria and I started working together without any business ambition. Necessarily. We just started a dev shop together.”
Hiremath: Mercor pivoted to recruitment after hiring Indian developers
“And what we ended up doing is recruiting these really, really exceptional folks from India to help us out with our dev shop. And then very, very quickly we realized, you know, the software was one thing, but we had found some really, really exceptional people …”