Mercor
10/10Not explicitly stated in the article; implied late-stage / decacorn by the ~$10B description.Not specified in the article; the piece describes Mercor as having built a ~$10 billion empire (implying decacorn scale).Not specified in the article.
Description
A company that frees up valuable data from legacy industries and makes it available to AI labs; CEO Brendan Foody is the public face of the business.
Why in News
Profiled by TechCrunch for how AI labs use Mercor to access data that companies won’t share; the article highlights CEO Brendan Foody and the company’s ~ $10B business of monetizing legacy data for AI training.
Founders
Brendan Foody (mentioned as CEO); article does not list other founders.
Published
January 20, 2026
Analysis
Explicitly about Mercor enabling AI labs to access data — clearly about an AI-focused business offering services to AI organizations.