Maxinsights has raised $30 million in a seed round led by Peak XV and simultaneously launched two products, MaxLoop and MaxGlove, aimed at improving the collection, quality control and processing of real-world training data for physical AI systems.
The round included participation from Tola Capital, South Park Commons, INCE Capital and Alumni Ventures, the company said. Maxinsights reported it has captured more than 2 million hours of real-world footage, including 1.5 million model-ready hours, using over 5,000 contractors across six countries to record everyday tasks.
Maxinsights data scale and pipeline
Maxinsights collects first-person footage of people performing tasks in homes, restaurants, hotels and other real-world settings. The company said it handles collection, quality control, annotation, curation and delivery within its own platform. Footage is checked through automated and human review for issues including image quality, task completion, visibility, synchronization and metadata. Proprietary models then label environment, task, subtasks and instructions, along with hand poses, body movement and interactions with objects.
Customers can search and rebalance datasets by task, location, behavior and complexity before receiving raw or processed data, and feedback from customers and models can be incorporated into subsequent collection. Maxinsights said all 200,000 hours of egocentric data used to train Genesis AI’s GENE-26.5 model came from Maxinsights, and described itself as the largest data provider for Dyna Robotics’ Dyna-2 World-Action Model.
“We built the whole pipeline ourselves, from the hand-tracking models to the platform that scores every operator’s footage as it arrives, because nobody was going to sell us the pieces that make messy real-world data usable,” founder and CEO Yuguang (YG) Yuan said in the annnouncement. “Robots get deployed into real kitchens, not staged ones, and something unexpected happens every few minutes. Edge cases are the job, and the only way to get them is to record real work in real homes. Collecting one great hour of data is easy, and holding quality across millions of hours and thousands of people is what we built the company to do.”
More than 5,000 contractors across six countries use Maxinsights camera hardware while performing tasks such as loading dishwashers, preparing food and washing cars. The company hires and manages workers through staffing firms rather than outsourcing collection to third-party data vendors.
MaxLoop and MaxGlove
Maxinsights introduced MaxLoop, software that evaluates and corrects data collection as it happens, and MaxGlove, a sensor glove developed with Genesis AI to capture touch and force information that video alone cannot provide. MaxLoop scores footage as it arrives and returns same-day feedback to operators, compared with one to two weeks previously. Maxinsights said MaxLoop has reduced review costs by about 80% and can process about 450,000 hours of footage a month; its models extract information including hand pose, object state, contact and force from individual clips.
MaxGlove is designed to capture grip force, pressure, resistance, slipping and other physical signals and to work with Maxinsights’ existing egocentric data-collection system. The glove will be deployed through the contractor network. Maxinsights said existing sensor gloves can require lengthy calibration and may provide only 10 to 20 minutes of usable capture a day. The company is targeting 1 million hours of force data in 2027. Maxinsights said force and torque data could help robot models determine how firmly to grasp objects, recognize secure contact and adjust when objects shift or slip.
The company was founded by Yuan and CTO Kun Wang. Yuan previously co-founded industrial robotics company Mega Gear Robotics, while Wang previously worked at Google X and Waymo and later co-founded autonomous-driving company QCraft. Maxinsights said its engineering team includes people with experience at Google, Microsoft, Meta, Waymo and Hulu.
Based in Santa Clara, Calif. with offices in China and Indonesia, Maxinsights serves more than 30 customers, including AI labs and foundation-model developers, with eight customers on recurring contracts. The company said offices in Turkey and Mexico are planned as well.
