Mercor

Mercor is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company that connects domain experts with AI labs to train and evaluate models. Founded in 2023 by Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha, Mercor has rapidly grown to become a leading AI talent marketplace. The company offers a platform where professionals from various fields, including law, medicine, engineering, and finance, can engage in high-value work at the frontier of AI. Mercor's services include matching experts with AI labs for data labeling and model training, providing AI research benchmarks like the APEX index to measure AI's real-world impact, and offering enterprise solutions for Fortune 500 companies deploying AI in production. As of October 2025, Mercor managed over 30,000 contractors and was valued at $10 billion after a $350 million Series C funding round. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.