PANews reported on March 11 that Kled AI, the AI ​​data marketplace within the Solana ecosystem, announced the completion of a $5.5 million seed round of financing. Participants included Waymo founder Sebastian Thrun, Bernard Arnault's Aglaé Ventures, K5 Global, Diplo, Parable VC, and Cox Exponential, bringing the total funding to $9 million.

Kled AI aims to build a marketplace for human data, where users contribute data by uploading files through its consumer app. The platform has collected over 12,000 structured datasets, covering egocentric data, medical data, city travel data, and more, which are available for purchase by AI labs and companies for model training.