Perceptron announces $6.5M strategic round to expand AI data monetization

Perceptron announced a successful funding round of $6.5M from leading Web3 investors. The funding will go toward building AI infrastructure and sourcing AI training data from a Web3 community. 

Perceptron closed a strategic funding round, gathering some of the leading Web3 investors and ecosystem partners. The backers for the latest funding include Sigma Capital, Selini Capital, and other trading firms and Web3 investors. 

“Our mission is to create the world’s first decentralized AI data mesh where user interactions directly fuel AI growth. We’ve already shown that mission can become a reality, as evidenced by our ability to scale to hundreds of thousands of nodes organically. Now, with this funding, we are launching our data-questing platform, which will allow AI companies to commission specific, high-value datasets directly from our community,” said Peter Anthony, co-founder and CEO of Perceptron.

The latest funding is the biggest and widest for Perceptron. The startup was incubated in the Colloseum ecosystem. In June 2025, Blockmesh merged with Perceptron Network to create the current project. 

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