Ashley Mo on LinkedIn · Jun 2026
Hiring post that reiterates the mission, frontier-labs customer focus, and operational scale-up plans.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Liva AI is a San Francisco-based YC S25 startup building consented, rights-cleared human voice and video datasets for AI model training. It sells off-the-shelf and custom data licensing services aimed at making voice and multimodal AI feel more human across emotion, nuance, context, and intent.
Primary product
Consent-first human voice and video datasets for training realistic AI models
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
10-20
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI data collection / multimodal datasets
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
B2B dataset licensing
custom data collection services
off-the-shelf dataset sales
Funding
People & investors
Work & culture
Early-stage YC-backed team with a research-heavy, execution-oriented culture focused on building the world’s richest library of human voice and video data and shipping data-collection infrastructure quickly.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
YC job postings show Founding Engineer at $140K-$250K plus 0.50%-1.48% equity, Founding Operations Lead at $120K-$150K plus 0.50%-1.00% equity, Founding Growth Lead at $60K-$180K, and Operations Intern at $20-$35/hour. Benefits listed include lunch/dinner, gym, and health insurance.
Benefits
Daily lunch and dinner covered
Free gym membership
Health insurance
Product & market
Pricing
Quote-based dataset licensing with both off-the-shelf dataset access and custom data licensing engagements
Differentiators
- —Consent-first and rights-cleared human data
- —In-house collection instead of scraping
- —No synthetic or third-party purchased data
- —Diverse accents, emotions, languages, and contexts
- —Targeted for voice and multimodal model training
- —Explicit focus on human-like emotional and conversational realism
Technology
Mixpanel
Google Analytics
TypeScript
OpenAI
React
Python
Docker
Nuance
Node.js
Next.js
AWS
Customers
AI labs
frontier AI labs
voice-agent companies
companies building or integrating voice/video models
researchers building voice, video, and multimodal generation models
Competitors
Scale AI
Defined.ai
Appen
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
approximately $220K ARR
Estimated monthly visits
2.3K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
HUGE Magazine · Feb 2026
Feature on Liva AI’s consent-first voice/video dataset business, competitive positioning, and early customer signal.
Y Combinator on LinkedIn · Aug 2025
YC announced Liva AI’s launch, describing it as a provider of high-quality human voice and video data for realistic AI models.
Fondo
Launch write-up describing Liva AI’s in-house, rights-cleared voice and video datasets and its customer focus on model labs.
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