YC Spring 2026 (P26) founder

Armin Kiani

Founder of Hub, Real-world training data for frontier AI labs and robotics.

Company

Armin Kiani is listed as a founder of 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.

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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...

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    Born too late to explore Earth, too early to explore the stars, born just in time to solve embodied AGI.

    Born too late to explore Earth, too early to explore the stars, born just in time to solve embodied AGI.

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    🌎 The hardest part of building a global data network isn't the tech. It's finding contributors in places nobody's looked yet. That's...

    🌎 The hardest part of building a global data network isn't the tech. It's finding contributors in places nobody's looked yet. That's what Scouts solves

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    Camera rolls are the raw material. Hub is the processing layer. Labs get the refined dataset. Everyone gets paid. That's the supply c...

    Camera rolls are the raw material. Hub is the processing layer. Labs get the refined dataset. Everyone gets paid. That's the supply chain

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    Frontier AI models speak about 20 languages well There are roughly 7,000 spoken on earth. The gap is not a research problem. It's a bus...

    Frontier AI models speak about 20 languages well There are roughly 7,000 spoken on earth. The gap is not a research problem. It's a business model problem. For the 6,980 languages the big labs don't prioritize, there's no scraped corpus, no licensed dataset, no synthetic...

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    Something I keep coming back to. The data training AI comes from everywhere. Voices from Lagos. Streets in Medellín. Kitchens in São P...

    Something I keep coming back to. The data training AI comes from everywhere. Voices from Lagos. Streets in Medellín. Kitchens in São Paulo. That texture of human life is inside every major model. Most of the people who made it possible don't know. I've watched what happens when...

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    Data that doesn't exist in any existing corpus. Go

    Data that doesn't exist in any existing corpus. Go