Framework Leads $9 million Round in AI Startup Perle

- Raises $9 million in seed funding, bringing its total investment to $17.5 million. - The platform uses blockchain to decentralize data curation and improve AI training. On August 7, 2025, Web3-powered AI startup Perle announced a $9 million seed funding round led by Framework Ventures. This new funding will fuel Perle's efforts to decentralize AI data curation and brings the company's total investment to $17.5 million. Perle will use the capital to launch Perle Labs, a platform that will reward users with blockchain-based incentives for contributing and reviewing high-quality data sets. Unlike traditional approaches that focus on scaling AI models, Perle aims to improve AI reasoning and decision-making with higher-quality, structured data. In the announcement, Ahmed Rashad, CEO of Perle, emphasized that decentralizing data curation is crucial for enhancing AI performance. According to Rashad, this approach can mitigate bias, enable wider global participation, and equip AI models to more effectively manage rare and ambiguous data. On August 7, Vance Spencer, Co-Founder of Framework Ventures, said in a statement, "The pace of AI progress will be driven more by better data than by simply scaling models." Perle Labs will support the entire AI lifecycle, a process that ranges from collecting multimodal data in audio, image, and text formats to fine-tuning the models. By addressing the limitations of current AI models, Perle positions itself at the intersection of Web3 innovation and advanced AI technology.