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Wynd Labs

Backed byPolychain Capital
Total raised$3.5M
StageSeed
Hiring pace7 roles / 90d
Founded2022
Team size11-50
HQToronto, Canada
Industries
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About Wynd Labs

Wynd Labs builds the critical data infrastructure layer that powers the world's most advanced AI models, operating one of the largest distributed web crawlers globally through its proprietary Grass bandwidth-sharing network. The company has constructed sophisticated pipelines for ingesting, segmenting, and annotating billions of videos, transcripts, and audio files, enabling frontier AI labs to create high-quality datasets at scale for pre-training and retraining large language models. Serving as a trusted partner to leading AI research organizations, Wynd Labs maintains one of the largest repositories of public web data and recently emerged from stealth as a cash flow positive, rapidly growing company. The organization operates as a lean, globally distributed team of approximately 40 people, with a flat structure designed around self-directed individual contributors who own their work end-to-end, with roughly 60% of the team focused on engineering roles.

Open positions · 8

Company at a glance

Locations
Los Angeles, United States ·San Francisco, United States ·New York City, United States
Investors
Advisors Anonymous ·Big Brain Holdings ·Bitscale Capital ·Mozaik ·Polychain Capital ·Tribe Capital ·Typhon Ventures
Websitewyndlabs.ai
LinkedInLinkedIn

Founders & Leadership

AR

Andrej R

Founder

LinkedIn

Location

About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Engineering42%
  • Business Operations25%
  • Sales & Business Development17%
  • Leadership8%
  • Specialized8%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.Carnegie Mellon University
  2. 2.Cornell University
  3. 3.UNSW Sydney
  4. 4.Nanyang Technological University
  5. 5.University of Minnesota

Team Worked At

  • Bright Data
  • Cisco
  • Amazon
  • Visa

Team Composition

10 people
  • Engineering4
  • Entrepreneurship1 senior1
  • Sales1

Culture & values

The organization is flat by design with absolutely no people managers.

The CTO serves as the product manager across every workstream and every team member is a self-directed individual contributor.

Communication is paramount in a flat structure and proactive communication is non-negotiable.

Low ego, high output; no job is too big or too small and everyone contributes wherever needed.

The team values people who make everyone around them better, not just those who keep things moving.

The culture emphasizes building hard problems and doing work that matters, not comfort.

Self-starters who learn fast are sought after; if you don't know something, you research it and figure it out.

The team is fully remote and globally distributed, with no red tape and fast decision-making.

Teams collaborate across the organization rather than remaining siloed in narrow functions.

The environment prioritizes substance over ceremony and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with open web data and AI.

Funding History

SeedDec 2023

$3.5M

raised

Wynd Network, a decentralized internet bandwidth currency service, raised a $3.5M seed round led by Polychain Capital and Tribe Capital; Bitscale, Big Brain, Advisors Anonymous, Typhon V and Mozaik participated.

Polychain CapitalTribe CapitalBig Brain HoldingsTyphon VenturesMozaikAdvisors Anonymous+1

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