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Mercor

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Mercor

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Interviewed in TWiST 500. observed

fresh · evidence today 5 sources no confidence data
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What we have established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 Evidence sufficient to publish Not yet

    The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is reachable but not in the ranked index. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

Funding
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Adoption
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Developer
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momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings
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Opportunity & risk

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Capital timeline every dated signal, across tiers

  1. rumor Mercor acquires Deeptune to build AI training environments ↗
  2. rumor Mercor's Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia over 'dual-pricing' valuation tricks ↗
  3. rumor Mercor acquires Sepal AI ↗
  4. rumor AI startup Mercor now valued at $10B with new $350M funding round ↗
  5. rumor Mercor, the AI Startup Fueling ChatGPT's Expertise, Is Now Valued at $10B ↗
  6. rumor AI Recruiting Startup Mercor Rockets to $2B Valuation ↗

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk high · 0.93

Gray-market attention, not quality. 32+ HN mentions (peak 600 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: 5 recent unverified rumors circulating · heavy gray-market attention · no primary-source corroboration. ▲ 600 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor 2026-04-27 ↗

Raw observations 15 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name Mercor observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 600 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 superseded 0.20
community.hn.mentions 32 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42842968", "title": "AI Recruiting Startup Mercor Rockets to $2B Valuation", "points": 3, "created_at": "2025-01-27", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verifica observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-10 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42842968", "title": "AI Recruiting Startup Mercor Rockets to $2B Valuation", "points": 3, "created_at": "2025-01-27", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verifica observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-10 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42842968", "title": "AI Recruiting Startup Mercor Rockets to $2B Valuation", "points": 3, "created_at": "2025-01-27", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verifica observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-10 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919630", "title": "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor", "points": 600, "created_at": "2026-04-27"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-04-27 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919630", "title": "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor", "points": 600, "created_at": "2026-04-27"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-04-27 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919630", "title": "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor", "points": 600, "created_at": "2026-04-27"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-04-27 normalized 0.20
description Interviewed in TWiST 500. observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.60
funding.round.source_url https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/nvidia-reportedly-explores-stake-ai-204528438.html observed https 2026-09-19 normalized 0.80
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M5W2PWEC1TB61P74TFW5G049", "signals": [{"quote": "we're very fortunate that in our portfolio, we have many companies like that, whether it's like Circle or Android, lit observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-26 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M5W2PWEC1TB61P74TFW5G049", "signals": [{"quote": "whether Stripe, Andrew, Lapp and Mercore, these were all seed investments for us.", "stance": "neutral", "confidence": observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-26 promoted 0.50
source.document.reference {"kind": "podcast", "title": "520. The Inner Workings of Seed Investing at GC, Why Sector Focus Can Be Limiting, Why Seed Milestones Are Obsolete, and Who to Hire Among Your First 10 Employees (Yuri S observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-26 normalized 0.95