HUD AI · Jun 2026
HUD announced a $16M Series A led by Standard Capital and framed the company as software for turning data into better AI via RL environments.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
HUD (Human Union Data, Inc.) is a Y Combinator W25-backed platform for building, training, and evaluating RL environments and agent evals, with a vendor marketplace for post-training data and tooling for computer-use/browser-use agents.
Primary product
Platform for building RL environments, evaluations, and post-training data workflows for AI agents
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI agent evaluation and RL training environment platform
Offices
12 jobs at hud
Business model
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$16M
Latest round
Series A · Jun 2026
Latest amount
$16M
Jun 2026 · Standard Capital
Mar 2025 · Y Combinator
Jan 2025
Frontier-AI-oriented, high-velocity, and research-heavy; the team emphasizes shipping in the open, publishing research, and using AI tools deeply in day-to-day engineering. Official materials describe a mostly in-person Bay Area team with some remote flexibility and a team that includes Olympiad medalists and researchers.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Yes
Compensation
YC job postings list Research Engineer and Full-Stack Engineer compensation at roughly $140K-$250K, with additional role ranges shown around $70K-$170K for other positions. The company also signals high-caliber hiring, visa/relocation support, and strong benefits.
Benefits
Pricing
Freemium + usage-based cloud pricing + custom enterprise pricing
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Estimated revenue
About $1.1M ARR (estimated)
Estimated monthly visits
1.1K
Traffic estimate as of Mar 2026
HUD AI · Jun 2026
HUD announced a $16M Series A led by Standard Capital and framed the company as software for turning data into better AI via RL environments.
LinkedIn · Jun 2026
HUD hosted a hackathon at YC with 200+ builders and promoted RL environments for autonomous farming, gene editing, city planning, world simulations, and games.
Standard Capital Changelog · Jun 2026
Standard Capital said it led HUD's Series A and described vendors already selling millions of dollars a month of data to labs through HUD.
HUD AI blog · Jun 2026
HUD announced native support for GitHub Agentic Workflows, positioning its product as production context for agentic coding inside GitHub workflows.
HUD AI case studies · Jan 2026
HUD highlighted production-debugging RL environments across Sentry, Supabase, Railway, and Kubernetes, describing 24 real production tasks.