According to BlockBeats, on October 30, CoinDesk reported that AI data collection startup Sapien completed a $10.5 million seed round of financing, led by Variant, with participation from Primitive Ventures, Animoca, Yield Game Guild and HF0.

It is reported that Sapien is a startup that aims to incentivize people to provide various data for use by artificial intelligence. The Sapien team is led by Rowan Stone (co-founder of the former Coinbase second-layer network Base) and Trevor Koverko (founder of Polymath and author of the RWA standard ERC1400), who incentivize the growing team of data providers by providing USDC stablecoins or reward points to data providers (whether marking everyday objects or traffic signs with mobile devices, or locating specific types of cancer cells).