Deccan AI secures Series A funding led by A91 Partners
26 Mar 2026, 11:58 AMSusquehanna International Group and Prosus Ventures participated in the funding round.
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Deccan AI, a startup supplying post-training data and evaluation work, has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by A91 Partners.
Susquehanna International Group and Prosus Ventures participated in the funding round.
The startup will use the fresh capital to expand its enterprise-focused AI offerings and boost its platform capabilities for deploying and evaluating AI systems.
Deccan AI, founded in October 2024 by Rukesh Reddy, provides high-fidelity, human-curated data, RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback), and expert evaluation services to improve foundation models and agentic workflows. It specialises in training data for AI labs and enterprise AI, with focus on domain expertise in coding, math, and logic.
The startup, headquartered in San Francisco, counts Google DeepMind and Snowflake as its customers. It also has an operations team in Hyderabad.
The market for AI training services has grown rapidly in tandem with the rise of large language models. Companies such as Scale AI and its rival Surge AI, along with startups Turing and Mercor, are competing to offer data labeling, evaluation, and reinforcement learning services.
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