Luel
Luel is a YC Winter 2026 (W26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Luel
Summary
Luel sources and licenses rights-cleared multimodal training data for frontier AI teams. It converts everyday human speech and actions into structured, high-quality datasets, replacing the ad-hoc data collection work those teams would otherwise do themselves. Customers can commission bespoke data collections or purchase off-the-shelf datasets through Luel's marketplace.
Business model
A fee per dataset, either custom-commissioned or purchased off the shelf through the marketplace.
Go-to-market
Frontier AI research and development teams are the buyers; they engage through a direct data-request flow for bespoke collections or self-serve through the dataset marketplace.
From the Y Combinator listing
Turning everyday words and actions into usable training data.
Luel is a sourcing and licensing platform for rights-cleared multimodal training data at scale. We work with frontier AI teams to provide high-quality bespoke data collections and off-the-shelf datasets.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Infrastructure
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Inigo Lenderking
- William Namgyal
Score every batch against your own thesis
GPAgent's sourcing agent reads every company in a batch, scores each one against your fund's thesis in a private workspace, and lines up the founders worth meeting before Demo Day. You decide who to contact. Your scores, notes, and pipeline never appear on these pages.
How Accelerator intelligence works