Multimodal data provider for robotics learning
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Human Archive is a San Francisco-based YC W26 robotics/data startup building the "Common Crawl for embodied intelligence": it collects, labels, and synchronizes multimodal human-action data (video, RGB-D, audio, tactile, mocap, IMU, wrist-camera streams) and sells that data infrastructure to frontier AI and robotics teams.
Primary product
Multimodal datasets and data-collection infrastructure for robotics and world models (including HA-Multi / HA-Ego and researcher dashboard samples)
Founded
2026
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
10-20
Industry
Robotics Engineering
Sub-industry
Multimodal data infrastructure for embodied AI / physical AI
Offices
10 jobs at Human Archive
Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$8.3M
Latest round
Seed · May 2026
Latest amount
$8.2M
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
Founding Ops Team
Investors
Public signals point to a lean, research-heavy, high-ownership culture that moves fast across San Francisco and India, with hands-on work in hardware, operations, and field deployment.
Compensation
Public job posts advertise roughly $100K-$200K plus equity for research roles, $150K-$200K plus equity for head-of-engineering, and CN¥80K-CN¥100K plus equity for an embedded/electrical role; a founder post also mentioned up to ₹1,00,00,000/year for founding operations talent in India.
Benefits
Pricing
subscription access to datasets, plus service/licensing arrangements
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
US$48.5M–US$193.8M (StartupHub estimate; point estimate US$111.7M, 44% confidence)
The company became part of a public privacy and consent controversy over egocentric worker data collection in India; reporting said the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology was looking into consent mechanisms, while Human Archive said it anonymizes data and blurs faces.
SourceHuman Archive reportedly faced rejection or collapsed discussions with some home-services players before working with smaller partners, highlighting partnership friction in its go-to-market model.
SourceFinSMEs · Jun 2026
Confirms the seed round and frames Human Archive as a data platform for human embodied intelligence, with use of proceeds for engineering, hardware, and operations.
The AI Insider · May 2026
Reported the funding round, the multimodal wearable-data approach, and the company’s expansion across hardware, software, and operations.
SiliconANGLE · May 2026
Summarizes the funding round, investor group, hardware stack, and competitive landscape for Human Archive.
Analytics India Magazine · May 2026
Covers the privacy controversy, the physical-AI market thesis, and reported worker-compensation ranges in the broader debate around consent and surveillance.
TechCrunch · May 2026
Explains Human Archive’s $8.2M funding, the founder team, its multimodal data-collection hardware, worker pay, privacy scrutiny, and expansion plans.