Pays thousands of people in six countries to wear cameras while doing household, restaurant and hotel work, and sells the egocentric footage as training data to physical-AI labs.
Santa Clara company (CEO Yuguang 'YG' Yuan, CTO Kun Wang) that collects first-person video of real work for robot and physical-AI training: contractors hired through staffing firms wear its camera gear while cooking, cleaning and doing hotel housekeeping; the footage is checked, annotated and delivered. On 2026-10-27 it announced a $30M seed round led by PeakXV with Tola Capital, South Park Commons, INCE Capital and Alumni Ventures, and launched MaxLoop (live quality control of footage) and MaxGlove (grip force and object weight data). It has offices in China and Indonesia. The company says it has captured more than 2 million hours, 1.5 million of them model-ready, and serves more than 30 customers.
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Maxinsights has nearly 4,000 collectors wearing cameras to record everyday actions and turns the footage into robot training data; its founder says the company holds about 2 million hours of first-person data and ARR is around $250M.
