# Mundo AI

> Mundo AI (YC W25) builds high-quality multilingual training data for AI models, tackling the shortage of non-English data that leaves most of the world's languages underserved by today's models. The company partners with native speakers and runs end-to-end operations in the countries where target languages are spoken, using proprietary software for data collection, generation, annotation, and quality assurance. Founded in 2024 by four University of British Columbia alumni, its customers are AI labs and companies training or improving non-English and multimodal models.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Jason Liao (Co-Founder & CEO), Garreth Lee (Co-Founder), Kenneth Wu (Co-Founder), Naijide Anwaer (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~4-20 employees
- **Products:** Multilingual Training Data Library, In-Country Data Operations, Proprietary Data Platform
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch, Launched a multilingual data library for AI labs, Reported roughly $660K in revenue in 2025 with a small team

## Products & services

- **Multilingual Training Data Library** — A growing library of novel, high-quality non-English datasets built with native speakers for pretraining and fine-tuning language models.
- **In-Country Data Operations** — End-to-end data collection, generation, and annotation run in the countries where the target language is spoken, ensuring cultural relevance and quality.
- **Proprietary Data Platform** — Internal software for streamlining collection, generation, annotation, and quality assurance across languages and modalities.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch
- Launched a multilingual data library for AI labs
- Reported roughly $660K in revenue in 2025 with a small team
- Founding team includes the first Indonesian at Hugging Face and a former Cohere technical staff member

## Latest updates

- **2025-02** — Launched via Y Combinator W25 as a multilingual training data library for AI labs.
- **2025-03** — Announced $500K seed funding and expanded native-speaker data operations.
- **2025-09** — Reported roughly $660K in revenue; positioning shifted toward 'the data layer for perceptual intelligence,' signaling expansion beyond text into multimodal data.

## Links

- Website: https://mundoai.world
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mundoai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/hellomundoai

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Last updated: 2026-07-30