Company record
Mercor
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Mercor organizes human experts to power the AI economy, offering expert work for AI labs, custom evals and the APEX benchmarks of frontier-model performance. mercor.com
Funding
- $350M Series C, announced October 27, 2025. Led by Felicis. Sources: techcrunch.com.
Whether AI names Mercor
- On the AI infrastructure map: named or cited in 0 of 50 answers to Presspool's AI infrastructure questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 0 of 8, Claude 0 of 8, Perplexity 0 of 8, Gemini 0 of 8, Copilot 0 of 8, Google AI Mode 0 of 6, Google AI Overviews 0 of 4). See the map. AI named or cited 33 of the 54 companies on the map in that sample; Mercor was not one of them. AI names these companies most on AI infrastructure questions: Lambda (17 of 50), Crusoe (13 of 50), Together AI (11 of 50), Fireworks AI (10 of 50), Groq (10 of 50), LangChain (10 of 50) and Modal (10 of 50).
- Machine Relations Index: Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026.
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Mercor in each weekly sample of Presspool's AI infrastructure questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | AI infrastructure |
|---|---|
| September 21, 2026 | 0 of 39 |
| October 5, 2026 | 0 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 0 of 50 |
| October 19, 2026 | 2 of 56 |
| October 26, 2026 | 3 of 53 |
| November 2, 2026 | 0 of 50 |
Related records
Also on the AI infrastructure map: Arcade, Baseten, Braintrust, Clockwork.io, Crusoe, Daytona, DeepInfra, Encord, Exa, fal, Fiddler AI, Firecrawl and 41 more on the map.
Felicis, which led this round, also led LMArena ($150M Series A, January 6, 2026) and DeepJudge ($41.2M Series A, November 4, 2025). It is also named as an investor in Phonic ($27.5 million Series A, October 29, 2026) and Arda Industries ($160 million Series A, October 20, 2026).