Companies / Data vendor
Zedge
Listed operator of creator communities (Zedge Marketplace, GuruShots) whose DataSeeds.AI unit makes rights-cleared multimodal datasets to order for AI developers. Recorded here: 1 funding event, 1 revenue figure and 3 market records.
zedge.netLatest record 26 Oct 2026
disclosed funding raised
What Zedge earns
Revenue, run rates and ARR as each was published. Run rates are often a best month times twelve, and gross figures include what passes through to experts.
- FY2026MeasureGuruShots digital goods and services revenue (the segment that includes DataSeeds.AI), GuruShots (includes DataSeeds)Figure$2M
Funding and acquisitions
- 25 Sep 2026EventDirect investment (private placement of Class B common stock and warrants), to grow DataSeeds.AIAmount$7.7M
In the brokerage market
Aug 2026, transaction
human model-evaluation services (ranking and review by GuruShots players, humans only)
Zedge's 10-K says it entered into its first agreement for model-evaluation services in August 2026, delivered through a minigame inside GuruShots where only human players take part. It states no customer, value or volume. It says GuruShots players cast close to 2.3 billion perceived votes a month on one another's photographs, and that Zedge does not itself perform data annotation.
Zedge, Inc., SEC Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 31 July 2026, 28 Oct 2026
Jul 2026, intermediary
approximately 50 million images with AI training rights at 31 July 2026
Zedge says it obtained rights to previously uploaded photographs by inviting players to opt in 'in exchange for virtual currency they can use in the game', and that its terms of service now grant the rights for newly uploaded content. GuruShots stages more than 300 competitions a month with more than 403,000 photographs uploaded. DataSeeds revenue is concentrated in a small number of enterprise customers, who place discrete projects rather than recurring contracts; no price per image is stated.
Oct 2026, transaction
Its first six-figure order, in the fiscal year to 31 July 2026
Zedge's fourth-quarter release says DataSeeds.AI won repeat orders from new and existing customers in fiscal 2026, including its first six-figure order, and an initial model-evaluation engagement. It names no customer and states no order value, image count or DataSeeds revenue; Howard Jonas led a $7.7 million insider investment in Zedge in September 2026 to grow DataSeeds.
Zedge, Inc., Form 8-K Exhibit 99.1, fourth quarter and fiscal 2026 results, 26 Oct 2026
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