Framework Ventures led a seed round of $17.5 million for Perle. Perle is an AI training platform powered by Web3 which brings human wisdom to AI model. Perle has now raised a total of 17.5 million in seed and pre-seed funding rounds. This marks a significant milestone in the company’s growth and mission. Perle will launch Perle Labs with this new capital
to transform the way human input powers AI. Perle Labs will integrate blockchain infrastructure and incentive designs to provide transparent payments, on chain attribution, and verifiable histories. This will unlock global participation and improve data quality at scale.
As AI models become more sophisticated, they will be judged on how well the handle rare, ambiguous or context-specific data inputs. This is what Ahmed Rashad, CEO of Perle, said. In our benchmarking, high-quality human in-the-loop annotating outperformed Amazon Rekognition (by over 70%)–proving that thoughtful input from humans is essential for closing critical data gaps. Decentralizing this process will unlock global participation, reduce biased and improve model performance.
AI models today are only as good at the data they’re based on. Even the most advanced systems struggle with complex, nuanced problems. Perle Labsis aiming to address these limitations through expanding access to high quality, diverse, and verifiable data sets. This will reward contributors and establish on-chain proof-of-work, while empowering a community to actively shape AI.
Vance Spencer, Co-Founder at Framework Ventures, said that the pace of AI advancement will be more driven by better data rather than scaling models. “That’s the reason we see a synergy between Perle’s powerful training platform and transparent incentive structures enabled through crypto networks – together, they have potential to launch a flywheel which unlocks a new wave of high-quality and useful data.” Its self-serve platform is designed to support the entire AI development lifecycle. This includes multimodal data collection, such as audio, image, and video. The platform supports reinforcement learning from human feedback, assistant fine-tuning and reinforcement learning using human feedback. Perle has already helped leading companies scale agentic training processes for complex use cases. Framework Ventures led Perle’s most recent funding round
a crypto venture capital company known for its early investment in AI, DeFi and blockchain infrastructure projects. Perle’s $ 8.5M previous seed round in October 2024led by CoinFund, with participation from Protagonist HashKey and Peer VC. Perle’s vision is to make high-quality feedback from humans the foundation for next-generation AI. With new capital and a growing partner network, Perle accelerates its vision. Perle is committed in building infrastructure to ensure that progress is not only faster, but smarter, safer and more inclusive.
Perle
Perle transforms the way AI teams access and utilize training data by combining expert knowledge with adaptive workflows. Perle specializes in data acquisition, expert annotating, and model evaluation. It delivers faster and more reliable results for generative AI. Our approach ensures that data quality and context are present where they matter most, helping teams to build more intelligent and trustworthy AI. Visit to learn more. Perle.ai.
Framework Ventures
Framework Ventures, a prominent VC in the crypto industry is known for its early investment in several multi-billion dollars protocols across the DeFi gaming and Web3 gaming industries. In 2022, Framework Ventures raised 400m to fund its third fund. Since then, it has expanded into other maturing verticals such as Web3 gaming, real world assets, and social cryptocurrency. To learn more, visit https://framework.ventures/.
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