Micro1

“micro1 is spending $1B this year buying company operational data ($100K to $2M+ per partnership) and paying experts $60 to $200 an hour to train AI models.”

“micro1 prices each deal on the quality, uniqueness and value of the data: $100K+ for a qualified partnership, $500K+ for large datasets or ongoing work across several teams, and $1M+ for highly unique proprietary data.”

“When bankrupt Spirit Airlines put its operational data up for sale, micro1 submitted a $12.5M late bid for part of it, against Google's winning $10M offer.”

“micro1 has committed $1B over the next twelve months to buying data from companies, per The Next Web, with financing from Citi and Hercules Capital.”

“micro1's AI interviewer builds an exercise from the job description and your skills: a lawyer applying to an M&A pipeline gets a live contract redlining task, for example. It runs on camera, and a proctoring model scores every session live.”

“Micro1: described as a breakout player in AI data with Reuters reporting a multi-hundred million dollar valuation.”

“Micro1 is actively purchasing anonymized corporate data corpora — Slack logs, Google Drive documents, internal databases — from companies of 30–300 employees and reselling processed versions to model labs.”

“There's like these three ingredients, obviously data, algorithms, and compute, and the labs sort of try to focus on all three to build these really powerful models. But what we're seeing is like data is increasingly the most important ingredient. And that's the only thing that we focus on, which I think a lot of researchers really align with.”

“We help the foundational model companies improve their capabilities. And then we also help enterprises evaluate their way into making real agents, production level agents.”