
Data & Infrastructure · Toronto, Canada
Wynd Labs
Wynd Labs builds critical data infrastructure for AI models through its Grass bandwidth-sharing network and sophisticated pipelines for processing billions of videos, transcripts, and audio files at scale. The company serves leading AI research organizations as a cash flow positive provider of high-quality datasets for large language model training.
Backed by Polychain Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Bitscale Capital and 4 more
- Location
- Remote
- 9 roles
- Team size
- 11-50
- Founded 2022
- Total raised
- $3.5M
- Seed · last round Dec '23
- Salary range
- $75–250k
- + equity · 2 of 9 roles
- Open roles
- 9
Open positions · 9
About Wynd Labs
Wynd Labs builds the critical data infrastructure layer that powers the world's most advanced AI models, operating one of the largest distributed web crawlers globally through its proprietary Grass bandwidth-sharing network. The company has constructed sophisticated pipelines for ingesting, segmenting, and annotating billions of videos, transcripts, and audio files, enabling frontier AI labs to create high-quality datasets at scale for pre-training and retraining large language models. Serving as a trusted partner to leading AI research organizations, Wynd Labs maintains one of the largest repositories of public web data and recently emerged from stealth as a cash flow positive, rapidly growing company. The organization operates as a lean, globally distributed team of approximately 40 people, with a flat structure designed around self-directed individual contributors who own their work end-to-end, with roughly 60% of the team focused on engineering roles.
Culture & values
The organization is flat by design with absolutely no people managers.
The CTO serves as the product manager across every workstream and every team member is a self-directed individual contributor.
Communication is paramount in a flat structure and proactive communication is non-negotiable.
Low ego, high output; no job is too big or too small and everyone contributes wherever needed.
The team values people who make everyone around them better, not just those who keep things moving.
The culture emphasizes building hard problems and doing work that matters, not comfort.
Self-starters who learn fast are sought after; if you don't know something, you research it and figure it out.
The team is fully remote and globally distributed, with no red tape and fast decision-making.
Teams collaborate across the organization rather than remaining siloed in narrow functions.
The environment prioritizes substance over ceremony and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with open web data and AI.
Funding
$3.5Mtotal raised
- Dec 2023 · SeedPolychain Capital, Tribe Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Typhon Ventures, Mozaik, Advisors Anonymous, Bitscale Capital$3.5M
- Polychain Capital

- AAAdvisors Anonymous
- Big Brain Holdings

- Bitscale Capital

- Mozaik

- Tribe Capital

- Typhon Ventures

Company at a glance
The team at Wynd Labs
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Team breakdown
Team Distribution
- Engineering42%
- Business Operations25%
- Sales & Business Development17%
- Leadership8%
- Specialized8%
Where the Team Studied
- 1.Carnegie Mellon University
- 2.Cornell University
- 3.UNSW Sydney
- 4.Nanyang Technological University
- 5.University of Minnesota
Team Worked At
- Bright Data
- Cisco
- Amazon
- Visa
Location
Team Composition
14 people- Engineering and Technical8
- Administrative1
- Customer Service1
- General Management1 senior1
- Operations1
- Sales1
Frequently asked questions
Of 9 open roles, Wynd Labs has 9 remote positions.
Wynd Labs is based in United States.
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