DeepReach Inc. GTM brain

DeepReach supplies real-world wearable capture data to physical AI developers through a network of local collection partners.

category

Physical AI training data

market profile

  • text: Robotics and world-model developers need demonstrations of real work across varied environments rather than a single controlled setting.
  • text: The business has two sides: model builders buying training data and local partners operating capture networks.

personas

  • title: Head of data at a robotics foundation model lab
    pains:
    • Training data lacks variation in tasks, workers and physical environments.
    • Collecting and quality checking real-world demonstrations at scale requires hardware and local access.
  • title: Robotics research lead
    pains:
    • Policies trained on narrow settings may not generalize to messy workplaces.
    • Needs relevant, usable and permissioned capture data for targeted manipulation tasks.
  • title: Local data collection partner
    pains:
    • Has access to real workers and locations but needs devices, task specifications and reliable payments.
    • Must assess variable approved-hour earnings before committing resources.

icp

  • text: Frontier model labs and robotics companies training physical AI with substantial real-world data requirements.
  • text: Local operators able to access diverse workplaces and manage teams collecting approved task footage.

message pillars

  • text: Offer partners a way to start a collection business.
  • text: Match collection tasks to each partner's capabilities.
  • text: Capture work across many settings for model training.

objections

  • objection: Is the data sufficiently diverse, consented and useful for our model?
    response: Review representative samples, permissions, collection conditions and quality criteria against a targeted evaluation task.
  • objection: Can a collection partner count on the advertised earnings?
    response: Treat the published hourly example as illustrative; actual earnings depend on available tasks, geography and accepted quality.

competitors

  • name: XDOF
    why: Collects robotics training demonstrations using teleoperation and wearable sensors.
  • name: Scale AI
    why: Provides physical AI collection and annotation for robotics labs.
  • name: Build AI
    why: Offers egocentric physical labor datasets and its own capture hardware.

keywords

  • physical AI training data
  • robotics egocentric video dataset
  • wearable robot data collection
  • human demonstration data
  • robot manipulation training data
  • real world multimodal data

voice

  • entrepreneurial
  • practical and accessible
  • community-focused

signals

  • text: A robotics lab is expanding physical AI training and seeks data from more settings or task categories.
  • text: A prospective local partner has access to workplaces, collectors and enough capacity to manage multiple devices.

stack

  • wearable stereo capture devices

hiring

  • Robotics Research Intern
  • Member of Technical Staff, ML Infrastructure
  • Member of Technical Staff, Computer Vision
  • Member of Technical Staff, VLA
  • Teleoperation Operator

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • YC directory
  • partner applications
  • SEO

confidence

medium

Founders

  • name: Tim Li
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Tim Li is co-founder and CEO of DeepReach. He has spent a decade building cross-border networks of people: HireIO, a Silicon Valley cross-border staffing platform he scaled to eight-figure ARR, and Talex, an expert network of ~7,000 annotators across ten countries working on LLM training data. At DeepReach he leads strategy, hardware operations, supplier networks and commercial. He works across US and Chinese supply chains and is bilingual in English and Mandarin.
  • name: Chris Liu
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: Co-founder at DeepReach Inc. Founding MLE & tech lead of Aven scaling to #1 in DM volume in the US. Research Scientist at Meta working on core ML systems. PhD in computer vision from USC. B.S. from Peking University.

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