Cryptographic AI data collection company Sapien has completed a $10.5 million seed round of financing, led by Variant

encrypted AI data collection startup Sapien has completed a $10.5 million seed round financing, 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 Base, and Trevor Koverko, founder of Polymath and author of the RWA standard ERC1400, who are incentivizing an increasing number of data providers using USDC stablecoin or a rewards points system.

According to RootData, Sapien is a scalable data labeling solution that gamifies the data labeling process using rewards on the blockchain.