Datacurve, a Y Combinator graduate, has raised a $15 million Series A round led by Chemistry to focus on high-quality data for software development. The company uses a "bounty hunter" system to attract skilled software engineers to complete datasets and has distributed over $1 million in bounties.
Datacurve emphasizes a positive user experience, treating data collection as a consumer product. This approach aims to attract talent, as the company believes that intrinsic motivation is more important than financial incentives. Datacurve is creating an infrastructure for post-training data collection to attract and retain experts in their domains, initially focusing on software engineering but with potential applications in finance, marketing, and medicine.