Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, January 17th, 2025, Chainwire
Reppo Labs, a Crypto x AI company spun out of Protocol Labs Venture Studio in March 2024, has successfully raised $2.2 million in funding to develop critical infrastructure that enables permissionless collaboration on niche datasets between data owners/warehouses and AI developers and agents. Using Reppo as a connective tissue, AI agents can directly relay needs and negotiate data access from owners across the spectrum without intermediaries, unlocking price discovery and demand for data that would otherwise remain siloed. To facilitate this, the team is building an intent-centric Data Exchange, powered by Anoma and secured by Gateway Protocol.
Reppo’s unique approach leverages programmable IP co-ownership as the incentive mechanism to ensure fair use and compensation for data owners—who may not know the immediate value of their data—to benefit from downstream revenue generated by derived IP and its usage.
Raghav (RG) Rmadya, CEO and Founder of Reppo Labs, commented
“Anyone claiming to build a blockchain specifically for AI is most likely a scam. It’s nothing more than a narrative play. Most blockchains today can already support agentic workflows and AI applications. The more likely future is that each agent or application will have its own chain. In such a world, models, agents, and applications will need permissionless ways to self-source their fuel i.e. data to grow and stay relevant. The days of spoon-feeding AI will soon be over.
Unfortunately, current data sources and pipelines are drying up. Ilya Sutskever highlighted this problem at NeurIPS last year, and the recent acquisition of Carbon by Perplexity underscores the growing demand for novel data connectors in the AI industry. Web3 has experimented with DataDAOs as a potential solution, but they are yet to prove scalable. Not all data in the world is user-owned; business-owned data is vast and often untapped. For instance, DePIN node operators generate enormous amounts of operational data that might seem mundane to some but is gold to us.
Incentives for these data owners are completely missing. When off-chain dark data becomes accessible to AI builders and agents, amazing things can happen. One example is our work incubating AI auditors for solar farms on the Glow Network. These auditors, trained entirely on off-chain data, automate and decentralize network audits that currently rely on centralized actors. The same applies to many other DePINs.
The Crypto x AI ecosystem is starved for niche and novel data—the ‘good nectar.’ Anyone building ‘decentralized’ models or agents today either relies on the same on-chain data streams, pre-cleaned and parameterized datasets, or centralized LLMs trained on a mere 0.1% of the world’s data while competing in a zero-sum game. It’s ironic, to say the least.”
Brad Holden, Partner at Protocol VC, said,
“What excites us about Reppo is the team’s ability to contextualize and solve challenges they encountered during their time at Filecoin for the broader Web3 and AI ecosystem. Their focus on making off-chain data accessible to build practical AI/ML models and agents is critical for tackling bottlenecks like insurance underwriting, node auditing, and SLA management for blockchain networks, especially for DePINs that we at Protocol VC are ultra bullish on. Few teams take such a systems approach to solving wicked problems and it was a no-brainer for us to partner with Reppo. I’m ecstatic about their mission to democratize permissionless access to previously untapped data for AI developers and agents.”
The $2.2 million funding included participation from Protocol Labs, CV VC, CMS Holdings, and a significant portion was raised on Echo.xyz, the first allocation being sold out in less than 10 minutes. Notable angel investors include Charles Songhurst, Lincoln from MH Ventures, Dieter Fishbein from Anoma, Thomas France (Ledger co-founder), Nicolas Pinto (Cygni Labs) and more.
About Reppo
Reppo is the permissionless coordination layer for AI Systems to collaborate with Data, Infra, and Capital, democratizing access to resources and empowering developers and agents to build whatever they desire. Headquartered in Cayman Islands, the team comprises global talent with deep expertise in AI/ML, blockchain, crypto, and Web3 ecosystem.
Users can learn more at https://reppo.xyz/ and follow Reppo on Twitter (X) and LinkedIn.
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