Intelligence_ai Claims $60M ARR After Six Months
The 10-person team launched DesignArena and announced rapid growth plus seed funding.
Intelligence_ai founders posted that their team scaled from $5M to $60M ARR in six months while reaching 5.5M users on DesignArena. The platform lets users submit requests and ranks competing AI models by live results. They also announced a $7.9M seed round led by Index Ventures. Investors including Y Combinator partners and others quoted the metrics and noted the company remains profitable. A TechCrunch report covered the funding and described DesignArena's role supplying human evaluations to frontier labs.
Today, we're introducing @Intelligence_ai. In 6 months, as a team of 10, we scaled from $5M to $60M ARR and 5.5M users across 190+ countries. We raised a $7.9M seed, led by @IndexVentures with participation from @conviction, @A_StarVC, and @combinator to build DesignArena, a…
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Grace Li@grx_xceToday, we're introducing @Intelligence_ai. In 6 months, as a team of 10, we scaled from $5M to $60M ARR and 5.5M users across 190+ countries. We raised a $7.9M seed, led by @IndexVentures with participation from @conviction, @A_StarVC, and @combinator to build DesignArena, a…
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XM TL Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz"Users tend to be indifferent to which models they’re ranking — as Li puts it, they just want the best output they can get — so their rankings can give critical input to what users really want."
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MV Mike Vernal@mvernalGrace (@grx_xce), Kamryn (@KamrynOhly) and the team at @Intelligence_ai are quietly building an insanely efficiently business. 10 people, $60M ARR, profitable, growing quickly. Congrats!
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AG Ankit Gupta@aguptayup you read those growth metrics right Been such a privilege working with @grx_xce and @KamrynOhly. Epic founders
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JZ Jaden Zhang@jadenqzhangBIG DAY: We’re officially launching, with a $7.9M seed led by @IndexVentures. 10 people and 5.5M users. Grateful to be along for the ride - and we’re hiring 👀
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