Human Archive

Human Archive is a data laboratory modeling human embodied intelligence, collecting and labeling multimodal egocentric data to advance understanding of how humans think, move, and interact with the world. Founded by Stanford and Berkeley researchers and backed by Y Combinator, the company operates a massive data collection network with over 100,000 contributors and 500+ industry partners across diverse environments including homes, hotels, restaurants, agriculture, industrial sites, construction, and retail. The platform captures, labels, and synchronizes video, sensor, audio, and long-horizon data, with off-the-shelf offerings including RGB, RGB-D, audio, tactile, and motion capture data. Human Archive's data infrastructure serves as foundational infrastructure for automating manual labor, increasing global abundance, and advancing research in brain function, cognition, spatial computing, and prosthetics. The company provides researchers with customer dashboards and data samples, and is actively building teams across hardware (embedded engineering, camera systems, firmware, manufacturing) and software (research engineering). Founded in 2026 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Human Archive has raised $8.7M in Series A funding from investors including Y Combinator, Wing Venture Capital, and Newark Venture Partners.