Intelligence (Design Arena): Seed funding
$7.9 million seed round led by Index Ventures with participation from Conviction (Sarah Guo and Mike Vernal), A*, Valkyrie and others. Intelligence runs Design Arena, a crowdsourced arena where users rank AI-generated designs; frontier labs pay for the resulting preference data.
Dated 3 Aug 2026Source checked 3 Aug 2026Basis: reported
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“announced a $7.9 million seed round led by Index Ventures with participation from Conviction (Sarah Guo and Mike Vernal), A*, Valkyrie, and others.”
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