YC Spring 2026 (P26) company

Hub

Real-world training data for frontier AI labs and robotics.

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About Hub

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.

Public traction evidence

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    Hiring a Sao Paulo field operator

    Hiring a Sao Paulo field operator

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    Real people are getting paid to record their everyday life. That's Hub. This week, every hour pays 25% more.

    Real people are getting paid to record their everyday life. That's Hub. This week, every hour pays 25% more.

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    The actual race in robotics isn't the hardware 1X raised $100M, Tesla is scaling Optimus, Boston Dynamics has been at it for decades. They all hit the same wall. Real-world training data that doesn't exist at the scale they need. A robot trained on simulation fails in a real Show more

    The actual race in robotics isn't the hardware 1X raised $100M, Tesla is scaling Optimus, Boston Dynamics has been at it for decades. They all hit the same wall. Real-world training data that doesn't exist at the scale they need. A robot trained on simulation fails in a real...

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    AI learned to talk from the internet It'll learn to act from us Backed by Y Combinator

    AI learned to talk from the internet It'll learn to act from us Backed by Y Combinator

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    Tuesday, June 2nd: @ycombinator demo day in 2 weeks. Woke up in São Paulo. Sourcing egocentric data collection for one of the biggest l...

    Tuesday, June 2nd: @ycombinator demo day in 2 weeks. Woke up in São Paulo. Sourcing egocentric data collection for one of the biggest labs in the world. Boots on the ground, scaling to 1M+ hours across LATAM & the US. You have to live the motto. "Make something people want"...

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    🌎 The next economy runs on real-world human data Every street. Every voice. Every daily life. Most people living in it are unaware the...

    🌎 The next economy runs on real-world human data Every street. Every voice. Every daily life. Most people living in it are unaware they’re sitting on something the world hasn’t yet priced. We're hiring a network of Field Recruiters who want to change that in their city. Part...

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    AI, shaped by humanity. Quote Y Combinator @ycombinator · Jun 15 Hub (@hubxyz) provides real-world training data to frontier AI labs and robotics. Human labor is half of global GDP. Almost none of it has ever been recorded. Hub opens access to it through a global network of contributors capturing hard-to-access data. Congrats on the launch,

    AI, shaped by humanity. Quote Y Combinator @ycombinator · Jun 15 Hub (@hubxyz) provides real-world training data to frontier AI labs and robotics. Human labor is half of global GDP. Almost none of it has ever been recorded. Hub opens access to it through a global network of...

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    ⚰️ The open web is dying. Not slowly NYT in court. Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers by default. Reddit paywalled to everyone except Googl...

    ⚰️ The open web is dying. Not slowly NYT in court. Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers by default. Reddit paywalled to everyone except Google and OpenAI. Cloudflare's CEO said bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027. If your AI strategy depends on scraping the public...