Datacurve B Verified
RL environment company · Coding
- Domains
- Coding Private Codebases
- On X
- @datacurve ↗
- Funding
- $17.7M raised · Y Combinator W24 · rounds and investors
- Tier
- B why
- Snapshot
What Datacurve does
Datacurve sells expert-sourced training data for frontier AI labs, including RL environments, long-horizon tasks, agent trajectories, SFT demonstrations, off-the-shelf datasets and benchmarks, with a coding focus.
- Sells
- RL environments and Data
- Leads with
- Coding
- Based in
- San Francisco, USA
- Team
- 26-50
- Website
- datacurve.ai ↗
What Datacurve sells
Read from Datacurve's own website, checked October 11, 2026: the line that puts it in each category.
RL environments
“Durable environments for measuring agentic capabilities where real work happens: long horizons, natural instructions, realistic tools, domain-specific judgment, and partial progress.”
datacurve.ai/products ↗“We build benchmarks that capture task-faithful, domain-sensitive lift”
datacurve.ai/products ↗
Data
“Prebuilt datasets, curated for signal, reviewed for quality, and structured to drop into your training stack without translation work.”
datacurve.ai/products ↗“Demonstrations that set the right behavioral prior for models, captured through bespoke tooling that lets experts work naturally”
datacurve.ai/products ↗
Domains Datacurve covers
Coding leads with
“Datacurve provides the frontier coding data that powers the world's most advanced models.”
datacurve.ai/careers/growth-operations ↗“Software EngineeringData ScienceCyber SecurityMachine LearningResearch”
datacurve.ai/products ↗“From enterprise data systems with layered schemas, to enterprise software systems with evolving business logic and real integration constraints”
datacurve.ai/products ↗
Datacurve competitors and alternatives
The companies that sell the most of the same things in the same domains, and what they share with Datacurve.
- Revelo Also sells RL environments, evals, human data and datasets · also in coding and security
- Idler Also sells RL environments and evals · also in coding, security and enterprise work
- Abundant Also sells RL environments, datasets and evals · also in coding
- Emulated Also sells datasets, RL environments and evals · also in coding
- Proximal Also sells RL environments and evals · also in coding and security
Tier B
Growing: 11 to 50 people, or $3M+ raised.
How much stands behind a tier: usage, who backs it, a confirmed line from its own site or paper, and a clear read on X. High with three of the four, medium with two, low otherwise.
- team 11-50
- raised $18M
- investors: Chemistry, Y Combinator, Balaji Srinivasan
- went through Y Combinator Winter 2024
- in curated RL directories (5 pts)
How we got to tier B
- Adoption: team 11-50; raised $18M; investors: Chemistry, Y Combinator, Balaji Srinivasan; went through Y Combinator Winter 2024. Tier B.
- On X: unclear, none buzz No move.
- In curated RL directories: 5 points, a floor of C.
- Confirmed: a line from its own site or paper places it.
A clear view on X moves a tier one step up or down; most entries don't move. How tiers work.
Datacurve funding
- Raised
- $17.7Mstated total
- Latest round
- Series A $15M2025-10 · led by Chemistry
- Accelerator
- Y Combinator W24
Backed byY Combinator Winter 2024ChemistryMark Goldberg
Rounds
- Series A · $15M · 2025-10 · led by Chemistry
the company announced a $15 million Series A round, led by Mark Goldberg at Chemistry with participation from employees at DeepMind, Vercel, Anthropic, and OpenAI.
- Read: “the company announced a $15 million Series A round, led by Mark Goldberg at Chemistry with participation from employees at DeepMind, Vercel, Anthropic, and OpenAI.”
- Found word for word on a page found by search: techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/datacurve-raises-15-million-to-take-on-scaleai
- The quote states the amount and who led it
- Also named by 3 other pages read
- Seed · $2.7M
The Series A comes after a $2.7 million seed round, which drew investment from former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan.
- Read: “The Series A comes after a $2.7 million seed round, which drew investment from former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan.”
- Found word for word on a page found by search: techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/datacurve-raises-15-million-to-take-on-scaleai
- The quote states the amount; no lead is named in it
- Also named by 3 other pages read
Accelerator
- Y Combinator Winter 2024
- Y Combinator's company directory lists Datacurve with the website datacurve.ai, in its Winter 2024 batch
- Checkable on YC's page: ycombinator.com/companies/datacurve
- 4 pages read also name Y Combinator
Funds 2
- Chemistry led a round
Named in the round quoted above.
- Mark Goldberg led a round
Named in the round quoted above.
Angels 1
- Balaji Srinivasan
Named in the round quoted above.
Every figure is quoted from its own site, its accelerator or a funding announcement; a round's amount and lead appear only when its quote states them. Startup databases are never used as evidence. Checked 2026-10-11. How funding is checked.
Training methods
Methods Datacurve uses, offers or builds for, with public evidence: its own website says so, or two independent sites do.
- SFT Supervised Fine-Tuning On its own website
“…\\ Get in touch - Agent trajectories \\ \\ Full traces of expert execution, including tool calls, checks, pivots, and recoveries, so agents learn the shape of real work, not just the finished answer.\\ \\ Get in touch - Supervised fine-tuning \\ \\ Demonstrations that set the right behavioral prior for models, captured through bespoke tooling that lets experts work naturally while preserving the operating judgment behind the work.\\ \\ Get in touch”
datacurve.ai
Where Datacurve sits
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Latest from Datacurve on X
@datacurve ↗Next: browse all environments. Entry from the RL Research daily scrape of public sources, 2026-11-05 snapshot.