HUD (YC W25) — Platform for building RL environments and evals
HUD is the platform for building high quality post training datasets. Our mission is to enable a generation of data entrepreneurs.
HUD is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Platform for building RL environments and evals. The founders listed are Jay Ram (Founder/CEO), Lorenss Martinsons (Founder), Parth Patel (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, March 2, 2025).
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HUD is the platform for building high quality post training datasets.
Our 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.
Jay Ram
Founder/CEO
Lorenss Martinsons
Founder
Parth Patel
Founder/CTO
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