AI-recruited expert workforce for data labeling and model training
micro1 is a data-labeling marketplace founded by 24-year-old Ali Ansari that uses an AI recruitment assistant to source and vet domain experts for RLHF, reasoning data, and robotics training datasets. The company pivoted from AI recruiting in 2025 and grew from an $80M valuation to a $500M Series A in eight months as Scale AI's ties with OpenAI and Google DeepMind unwound.
AI📍 San Francisco, CAFounded 2022
Current Valuation
$500M
as of 2025-Q3
PRIVATE
QL Price
$1.4B
+176% vs last round
QuantLogix's current estimate for micro1, published 2026-10-07 — above the last disclosed round of $500M (2025-Q3).
Confidence
medium
Basis
blended
What backs this price
Last disclosed round
$500M
2025-Q3
weight 0.49
Secondary market print
$716.5M
2026-06-27
weight 0.54
Public-company comparables
$4.3B
2026
weight 0.27
This price sits more than 100% away from the last disclosed round. Past a 2× repricing off a single secondary print, the likeliest explanation is that the print and the round describe different share classes rather than a genuine move. It is published and graded like every other price, but treat it with more care.
How this price has held up
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Which publicly-traded funds already hold it, what $10,000 buys, and whether any route is open to you.
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IPO Outlookprivate
Is micro1 going public?
No. micro1 is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is micro1's valuation in 2026?
micro1 is valued at $500M as of 2025-Q3, set by its Series A ($35M, Sep 2025). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has micro1 filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for micro1.
Who are micro1's investors?
micro1's investors include 01 Advisors.
Is micro1 publicly traded — can you buy micro1 stock?
No. micro1 is a private company — its shares are not listed on any exchange and there is no ticker. The routes to exposure are pre-IPO secondary marketplaces and funds (accredited investors), employee tender offers when the company runs one, and public companies with read-through exposure. QuantLogix maps every route it can verify for micro1 on its Pre-IPO Access Desk.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Company Profile
CEO
Ali Ansari
Founded
2022
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Est. Revenue
$300M (2026)
Growth
+1,686% YoY (valuation $80M → $500M in 8 months)
Last Round
Series A — $35M (Sep 2025) · Lead: 01 Advisors
IPO Status
none
Fundraising Status
Series A · $35M · 1y 1mo ago
none
Secondary Market
Implied price / share
$25
Last round price / share
$17.45
vs last round
+43.3%
Last round price vs secondary price
Secondary price return by period
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series A
$35M
Sep 2025
01 Advisors
—
Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
No verified Hugging Face organization found for micro1 — no attributable open-model footprint. Closed-weights labs are common; this is a distribution signal, not a capability judgment.
Checked huggingface.co as of 2026-10-04. Re-checked weekly.
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▶ Hiring steady
-3% vs 2026-08
Open roles
28
via careers page
Product-build share
61%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 61% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Software Engineer, Data Platforms\\ $200K-280K/yearSenior Database Reliability Engineer\\ $220K-260K/yearAI/ML Engineer\\ $200K-350K/yearForward Deployed Engineer, U.S. Government\\ $300K-500K/yearMember of Technical Staff, Robotics Research\\ $500K-1.5M/yearStrategic Project Lead, Coding/SWE\\ $300K-500K/year
Counted from micro1's live job board as of 2026-09-14; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Ali Ansari
Investors
01 Advisors
Products
AI-vetted expert network for data labeling
RLHF and reasoning training data
Robotics and enterprise AI data services
Competitors
Mercor · Surge AI · Scale AI · Handshake AI
AIData LabelingRLHFGig Marketplaces
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q3. Refreshed quarterly.