We're building the data layer for AGI.
Frontier models are starving. Every lab we spoke to told us the same thing: the public internet is tapped out, and the best data is sitting in drawers, inboxes and hard drives, doing nothing.
So we built Corpora. A two-sided marketplace where anyone can turn the data they have into revenue, and where AI teams can license it in minutes instead of months. We believe every byte deserves a second life. And a third. And a fourth.
We're a small, insanely focused team based in Zurich and San Francisco, backed by top-tier investors and operators from leading AI labs. We grew 40% week over week for eleven straight weeks, and we're just getting started.
The team
Max Kessler
Co-founder & CEO
Dropped out of Stanford CS to work on this. Previously founding engineer at a data-infra startup that got acquired. Thinks in first principles.
Priya Raman
Co-founder & CTO
Ex-Palantir. Built ingestion pipelines processing 4PB a day. Has never met a scraper she couldn't scale.
Jonas Weber
Co-founder & Head of Supply
Ex-McKinsey, ex-ETH. Signed our first 1,000 sellers by hand, mostly over LinkedIn DMs.
Sam Lee
Founding GTM
Two-time founder. Closed seven figures in ARR before we had a pricing page. Runs on cold brew and conviction.
What we believe
- Move fast. The models won't wait, and neither do we.
- Default to yes. Every dataset is licensable until proven otherwise.
- Consent is a journey, not a checkbox.
- Be cracked. We hire people who'd do this for free, then pay them anyway.
We're hiring
We're looking for cracked engineers, data acquisition leads and one in-house lawyer who doesn't ask too many questions. In-person, Zurich or SF. Competitive equity, unlimited PTO, and a front-row seat to history.
*Role may be renamed pending regulatory guidance.