Andreessen Horowitz Leads $15 Million Seed for AI Data Platform Poseidon
Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto fund has led a $15 million seed financing for Poseidon, a start-up building a decentralized data layer aimed at supplying legally licensed, high-quality datasets for physical artificial-intelligence applications. Other participants in the round were not disclosed. Poseidon was incubated within Story Protocol and will run on that blockchain-based intellectual-property platform. The company says its infrastructure will collect, curate and license real-world data—such as information gathered by robots, autonomous vehicles and voice systems—to alleviate what it calls the biggest bottleneck for next-generation AI models.
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Poseidon, an AI-focused decentralized data layer built on the Story protocol, raised a $15M seed led by a16z (@danielgkuhn / The Block) https://t.co/EErisvB3is https://t.co/fS4Yt9rukj https://t.co/ZOzeer1FAj
Crypto Fundraising #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 AI-focused data layer built on Story Protocol @psdnai raised $15M in a Seed funding round led by @a16zcrypto. https://t.co/BSqjixq2AM https://t.co/yKVtbr1brk
Chris Dixon Excited to announce we’re leading a $15M seed round in Poseidon, which was incubated by @StoryProtocol and is building a decentralized data layer to coordinate supply and demand for AI training data. The first generation of AI foundation models were trained on data that seemed https://t.co/wY564wdHK3
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