DESIGN ARENA CREATORS RAISE $7.9 MILLION TO BRING TASTE TO AI MODELS

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Intelligence, maker of Design Arena, raised $7.9 million in seed funding led by Index Ventures, with Conviction, A*, and Valkyrie also participating. The platform lets users rank AI-generated designs and now serves 5.3 million users while generating $60 million in ARR by selling human feedback data to frontier AI labs. This crowdsourced evaluation model has mixed results industry-wide: Yupp shut down despite $33 million raised, while LM Arena secured $150 million at a $1.7 billion valuation in January.