{"id":1048523,"date":"2026-11-11T07:52:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048523"},"modified":"2026-11-11T08:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:32:48","slug":"ai-training-startup-mercor-valued-at-20-billion-in-latest-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/11\/ai-training-startup-mercor-valued-at-20-billion-in-latest-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"AI training startup Mercor valued at $20 billion in latest funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercor said on Tuesday it had raised $750 million in a funding round that valued the AI training startup at $20 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The Series D round drew participation from Benchmark, Felicis, Fundomo, Nvidia and funds managed by affiliates of Apollo, among others. <\/p>\n<p>Here are more details: <\/p>\n<p>Investor enthusiasm for AI has fueled a sharp rise in private funding this year, creating a growing group of heavily capitalized startups carrying multibillion-dollar valuations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercor said on Tuesday it had raised $750 million in a funding round that valued the AI training startup at $20 billion. The Series D round drew participation from Benchmark, Felicis, Fundomo, Nvidia and funds managed by affiliates of Apollo, among others. Here are more details: Investor enthusiasm for AI has fueled a sharp rise in private funding this year, creating a growing group of heavily capitalized startups carrying multibillion-dollar valuations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048547,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048523\/revisions\/1048547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}