Mercor Competitor Deccan AI Raises $25M, Sources Experts From India
Deccan AI secures $25M Series A to deliver expert AI post-training data from India, serving Google DeepMind and Snowflake.
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Mercor Competitor Deccan AI Raises $25M, Sources Experts From India
Deccan AI Raises $25M to Fix the Problem in AI Training As frontier labs race to build smarter models, a Hyderabad-rooted startup is quietly solving the quality crisis that no one talks about — and it just landed $25 million to scale faster. Deccan AI, a startup specializing in AI post-training data and model evaluation, has raised in its first major funding round. The Series A was led by A91 Partners, with participation from Susquehanna International Group and Prosus Ventures. Founded just in October 2024, the company has already landed clients such as Google DeepMind and Snowflake — and it's doing it with a workforce rooted in India. Why AI Post-Training Is the Industry's Hardest Unsolved Problem Building an AI model is only half the battle. The harder, costlier, and less glamorous work happens after — refining how the model behaves, evaluating its outputs for errors, and teaching it to interact reliably with real-world software. This phase, known as post-training, is where …
