AI Data Collection Startup Sapien Raises $10.5M Seed Funding Led by Variant

The Sapien team, led by Rowan Stone, the former co-creator of Coinbase’s layer 2 network Base, and Trevor Koverko, founder of Polymath and author of RWA standard ERC1400, are incentivizing a growing army of data providers – which can be anything from people labeling everyday items or traffic signs with a mobile device, to pinpointing particular types of cancer cells – with either USDC stablecoin or a system of reward points.