Crowdsourcing Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

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.

The best AI models aren’t just trained and evaluated with human data; they’re built with superhuman data. The strongest datasets emerge through collective intelligence, where humans and machines work together to outperform either one alone. At Centaur, we create superior quality data by turning annotation into an arena where experts and AI compete.

We provides tools, data and systems to facilitate real-time insights, decluttering outbreak detection and enhancing risk mitigation. Our surveillance is used by industry, public heath and consumers globally.

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination."​ Playment is a fully managed data labeling platform generating training data for computer vision models at scale. We empower companies in the Autonomous Vehicle, Drones, Mapping, and similar spaces with high precision annotation services - No matter how complex. We’re helping companies and research institutions like Drive AI, Starsky Robotics, CYNGN, and UIUC focus on their core areas of development. Our platform is powered by a trained workforce of 300,000+ users and managed by our human intelligence experts who build your tasks and deliver results with assured quality. Support Annotation types: Bounding Boxes, Cuboids, Polygons, and Polylines, Point annotations, Segmentation(coming soon) for both image and video data types. Interested to hear more? please check out https://playment.io Use Cases we worked on: Autonomous vehicles, drones, satellite imagery, precision agriculture, Retail / eCommerce, sports analytics