Today’s most capable models are increasingly constrained by access to data. Public datasets are largely exhausted. The internet has been scraped. AI models now need high-quality, real-world data to continue advancing. That’s why we’re excited to announce a $30M Series A investment in Protege, the platform building the real-world data infrastructure for AI. @withprotegeai connects the world’s leading AI builders with massive, multimodal datasets across healthcare, video, audio, motion capture, and more, unlocking data that has historically been fragmented, inaccessible, or prohibitively slow to use at scale. Protege has already found an impressive product-market fit, and is a core data partner to the majority of MAG7 public companies, as well as many of the largest private players in AI. We couldn’t think of a better team to build this company than Bobby Samuels (cofounder & CEO) and Travis May (cofounder and Chairman), who spent a decade building Datavant and LiveRamp into two of the biggest exits in the data space, alongside fellow cofounders Engy Ziedan (Chief Scientific Officer) and Richard Ho (CTO), who bring deep data and technical expertise. By @daisydwolf and Eva Steinman @BobbySamuels @engyziedan(a16z)