Hub
Hub is a YC Spring 2026 (P26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 10.
About Hub
Summary
Hub captures physical, real-world data, including egocentric video, hand tracking, teleoperation trajectories, and synchronized sensor streams, to train embodied AI and robotics models. A global network of contributors collects this data across commercial and residential environments, replacing synthetic generation and public-web scraping with high-fidelity, original captures. Frontier AI labs and leading robotics companies use Hub's annotated, production-ready multimodal datasets where no adequate substitute exists.
Business model
Custom dataset requests priced per project or delivery.
Go-to-market
Frontier AI labs and top robotics companies are the primary buyers, who request custom datasets directly through Hub's site. Contributors join via HubApp to supply captures, making the model a two-sided network combining a self-serve contributor side with a direct enterprise sales motion on the buyer side.
From the Y Combinator listing
Real-world training data for frontier AI labs and robotics.
Hub is a distributed real-world data infrastructure company that captures the lived richness of human experience, including voice, nuance, and perspective to train the next generation of AI models. Through HubApp, our global network spanning 150+ countries sources high-fidelity, original data that cannot be found on the public web or generated synthetically. We provide a completely automated pipeline coupled with human-in-the-loop validation to deliver production-ready multimodal data to frontier AI labs and Fortune 500 companies.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Infrastructure
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 10
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
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