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HUD + Standard Capital Series A

2026-06-18 · 16:32 UTC ·Standard Capital ·1 min read

Brief

HUD — in an interview between Dalton of Standard Capital and HUD’s founders — presents a platform for creating post‑training datasets used by 50+ companies to build RL environments, monetize evaluations, or train models. The founders outline a mission to enable data entrepreneurs and note HUD has raised $16M to date from investors including YC and several notable angels.

Why it matters

HUD is a platform for building high‑quality post‑training datasets and is used by over 50 businesses to build RL environments, sell them to AI labs, or train their own models.

Key details

  • HUD has raised $16M in total funding, with investors including Standard Capital, Y Combinator, Exceptional Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, Twenty Two Ventures and angels such as Dylan Patel, Roon (@tsslz) from OpenAI, Ivan Burazin, and Theo Browne.
  • Dalton from Standard Capital interviews HUD’s founders about their Series A announcement in a video published June 18, 2026 on Standard Capital’s YouTube channel.
Source evidence

Dalton from Standard Capital sits down with the founders of HUD to discuss their Series A announcement.

HUD is the platform for building high quality post training datasets. Over 50 businesses use HUD to build RL environments, sell them to AI labs, or train their own models from them.

HUD's mission is to enable a generation of data entrepreneurs. The previous generation built apps to impact the world. We believe people will build infrastructure around data, both digital and physical, that align AIs to their specific goals.

HUD has raised $16M in total funding from Standard Capital, Y Combinator, Exceptional Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, Twenty Two Ventures, amazing angels such as Dylan Patel from SemiAnalysis, Roon (@tsslz) from OpenAI, Ivan Burazin from Daytona, Theo Browne, and more!

HUD: https://www.hud.ai/
HUD on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hud-evals/
HUD on X: https://x.com/hud_evals

Standard Capital: https://www.standardcap.com/
Standard Capital on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/standard-capital-ventures/
Standard Capital on X: https://x.com/Standard_Cap

Channel: Standard Capital
Published: 2026-06-18
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWV7n-HDyLM