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Mercor
expert marketplace, environments emerging
- Domains
- Code · Healthcare · Law · Multi-domain
- Founded
- Est. 2023
- HQ
- San Francisco, USA
- Funding
- Reported ~$10B valuation
- Openness
- Closed
§ Positioning
An expert-marketplace and human-data company now pitching RL environments for domain-specific work — coding, healthcare, law.
Best for · Domain-specific environments needing credentialed human experts.
Team · Founded by Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha.
Focus · Primarily an expert/human-data marketplace; now offering domain-specific RL environments.
Notable customers · OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic (reported)
§ Incumbent
Unranked — adjacent incumbent
Mercor is a major player in the broader human-data and AI services market that has extended into RL environments. It's listed here for context but isn't scored against the environment-native rubric.