AI Data Collection Startup Sapien Raises $10.5M Seed Round

On October 30th, AI data collection startup Sapien closed a $10.5 million seed round led by Variant with participation from Primitive Ventures, Animoca, Yield Game Guild and HF0. The Sapien team is led by Rowan Stone, former co-founder of the Coinbase Layer2 Network Base, and Trevor Koverko, founder of Polymath and author of the RWA standard ERC1400. Sapien uses the USDC stablecoin, or Reward Points system, to reward data providers.