Perle Labs founder, Ahmed Rashad, will be presenting at the Marvin Founders Q1 2026 Showcase Thursday, February 19, as part of a curated event featuring 13 companies founded by McKinsey & Company alumni, open to investors, founders, and select operators.
📅 Thursday, February 19th | 2:00–3:30 PM EST | Held Virtually
Why We're There
The bottleneck is always the data.
AI is moving from generating tweets to making life-or-death decisions, medical diagnoses, autonomous vehicles, military systems. When AI enters operating rooms, warehouses, and battlefields, the margin for error disappears.
Perle Labs is building the sovereign intelligence layer for AI: expert-validated, human-verified, on-chain auditable. Infrastructure for governments and enterprises that can't afford to trust black-box data pipelines.
Why This Matters for Perle
These companies are building in domains where AI failure is unacceptable, cancer diagnostics, environmental monitoring, agricultural systems, and public health.
That's exactly the thesis behind Perle Labs. Chatbots can hallucinate and recover. Robots can't. Medical diagnostics can't. Autonomous systems can't.
As AI moves into these high-stakes environments, the demand for trustworthy, human-verified data will only grow. We're building the infrastructure to meet that demand.
The Perle Labs Story
Ahmed spent years building data operations at Scale AI, the company valued at $29B that secured a $300M DoD (CDAO) contract (AI on classified networks) and a $14.3B investment from Meta.
He saw firsthand what works and where the system breaks. The incumbents were never designed to handle what's coming next.
Perle is the evolution of that playbook: same rigor, on-chain transparency.
We raised $17.5M from Framework Ventures, CoinFund, Protagonist, HashKey, and Peer VC. In our beta, we completed 1.7 million tasks and earned 333 million points in under two months.
Join Us
📅 Thursday, February 19th | 2:00–3:30 PM EST
Season 1 is live at perle.xyz
