Tech Company Financing Transactions
Idler Funding Round
Idler closed a $9 million Seed funding round on 8/20/2026. Investors included Paradigm, Long Journey Ventures and private investors.
Transaction Overview
Company Name
Announced On
8/20/2026
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$9,000,000
Round
Seed
Investors
Proceeds Purpose
The capital will be used to build evaluation systems, benchmarking tools, and reinforcement learning environments for cutting-edge labs. This comes amid rising interest in inflation data and AI infrastructure development.
Company Information
Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Artificial Intelligence
Mailing Address
584 Castro Street 4075
San Francisco, CA 94114
USA
San Francisco, CA 94114
USA
Phone
Undisclosed
Website
Email Address
Not Recorded
Overview
Idler is a frontier data research lab. We build the evals and environments that the world's leading frontier labs use to measure and train their models.
Profile
Social Media
Company News
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Management Team
Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Ivan Chub
Chief Technical Officer
Tony Goss
Founder
Nalu Concepcion
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