Company
A human data lab
in San Francisco.
We capture what real people know, say and do, and sell it to AI labs as training and evaluation data.
We sell data to labs because we are one. The revenue funds our research.
Cookiy started by running research interviews with real people for hundreds of companies. That work built the recruiting, the AI interviewer and the pipeline we now use to deliver data. It also feeds our own research: human simulation, evals and RL environments. Every dataset we sell helps pay for it.
- 190,000+ research interviews run, with recordings and transcripts.
- 170M+ people reachable through our sourcing network.
- $7M+ raised. Based in San Francisco. Our research →
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Team
Five people. Research, engineering and delivery.
Davin YC Dong
Founder and CEO
Machine learning at Meta and TikTok. CS PhD dropout, University of Michigan. Previously Alibaba and Tencent. Runs the company, data requirements and research collaboration.
LinkedIn ↗Kun Chen
CTO
Former Meta and Airbnb. Several years building AI ventures, specializing in multimodal generation and enterprise voice agents. Built the AI interviewer and the data pipeline.
LinkedIn ↗Tianzhu Qi
Research
Former algorithm engineer at Tencent. PhD background at Cambridge and Stanford. Leads human simulation research and the benchmark program.
LinkedIn ↗Joven Lee
Chief Revenue Officer
Former Nielsen, Statista and Cint. Global research and participant sourcing. Runs the sourcing network and partner relationships.
LinkedIn ↗Kelly Sun
Data programs
Previously TransPerfect and DataForce. Scopes data programs and runs client delivery: who to recruit, what to collect, how to label, how to accept.
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Investors
$7M+ raised.
Our investors back frontier labs as well as AI applications, data infrastructure and embodied intelligence.
Portfolio companies are investments of the respective funds, not Cookiy customers or partners.
- Lightspeed LuminousLead investor. Portfolio includes Unitree Robotics.
- Factorial FundsPortfolio includes Anthropic, Thinking Machines, Mistral AI, xAI, ElevenLabs, Physical Intelligence.
- Liquid 2Portfolio includes Tavus, Applied Intuition, Jasper, Photoroom.
- ConvergePortfolio includes Pinecone, FurtherAI, FeatureByte, Thoughtly.
- UpHonestPortfolio includes Genspark, Turing, Dialpad.
- GoAheadPortfolio includes Colossal, Aurelius and HackerRank.
- TaihillBacks Collov Labs.
Consent
Traceable to a real person.
Every contributor consents to the agreed use. Every dataset is traceable to a verified person or an authorized organization. Our research platform, Cookiy Insights, operates under SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR and HIPAA programs.
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Video on this site is licensed stock footage of real people, used to illustrate the kinds of data we collect.