Wirestock Raises $23M and Shifts to Supplying Multimodal Data for AI Developers

Friends, a quick AI update: Wirestock closed a $23M Series A and is now focused on supplying multimodal datasets to AI labs.

Summary:
- In 2023 the company pivoted from a stock platform to a dataset provider (images, video, 3D, design).
- The platform hosts 700,000+ creators; Wirestock has paid contributors $15M and reports $40M ARR.
- It now supplies data to six leading foundation‑model developers, built annotation teams, and is scaling enterprise sales.

Why it matters: demand for high‑quality multimodal data is growing and accelerates creative model development.

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