DataVendor launches public beta as a marketplace for AI training data, boosted by Y Combinator
ycombinator · x · 2026-10-23
DataVendor announced its public beta, positioning itself as infrastructure for buying and selling data — serving everyone from lab researchers to companies monetizing datasets. The team claims data is the fundamental bottleneck for AI progress and spent two years building the platform. Angel investor aaronepstein called it "the default way to buy and sell data," and Y Combinator's official account retweeted the launch. No pricing or scale figures were shared.
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