Anveio
TheDataCompanyofBangladesh
Who We Are
- 10+ YoE, AWS (EC2, Bedrock) & Patreon (Payments)
- Seattle-based, born in Bangladesh.
- Anveio is a US‑based C‑corp with a subsidiary in Bangladesh.
- Mission: Turn Bangladesh into the world’s most efficient source of AI data.

Partners
- Dr. Tazia Sardar, DPTAdvisor
- Dr. Md Abdullah Yousuf, DOAdvisor
$1,600 · Daybreak Blue
$2,500
What we do
We pay farms in Bangladesh to record drone video, then we enrich it and format it, and then license it to AI companies.
- Licenses renew yearly, so the same hour of footage is sold per customer per year.
- $40/hr for exclusive contracts.
Why Now
- AI data industry is seeing unprecedented growth.
- Seller revenue grew up to 71× between 2025 and 2026.
- Buyer spending is expected to grow 7.8× between 2025 and 2027.
- Latest models are powerful enough to create overwhelming comparative advantage against non-AI incumbents in Bangladesh.
- Historical farming data becomes more valuable over time and makes AI better at agriculture, business, world-modeling, and more.
Mercor
Handshake
micro1
Snorkel
Mecka
Protege
Luel
Build AI
Kled
Why Bangladesh
- AI is accelerating innovation. Data is the bottleneck. Later, deployment will be.
- Bangladesh has a malleable bureaucracy, the highest population density of any large country, and a US-friendly government.
- Bangladesh is rich in farms and fertile, low-cost land.
- Natural moat: first company to deploy data collection infrastructure at scale will win. Small economy = winner-take-all.
- Long term: become default data partner for buyers of high quality physical world-data in the region.
Where this is going
- First, we become the world’s most trusted source of AI data in Bangladesh. (Q4 2028)
- Drone video
- Physical sensors (salinity, temperature, moisture)
- Evals (AgricultureBench 1.0, RL Envs)
- Scale horizontally: 2 → 16.9M farms
- Second, we become the deployment vehicle for all AI-powered innovation:
- Last-mile delivery of breakthrough medicine
- Specialized vehicles that make supplying the most remote villages economical
- Building materials and construction standards tuned to Bangladesh’s climate and geography
- Safer roads and self-driving public transit
- Pollution removal, sanitation, garbage collection and water treatment
- Cheap lab-grown meat to fight malnutrition
Month 1
Goal: Collect at least 20 hours of high quality drone footage.
Month 2
Goal: Go to market, get one buyer commitment.
Buyers


Month 3
Goal: Record 10hrs/day/farm of drone video.
Month 4
Goal: Release AgricultureBench-1.0
Eval = Benchmark + RL Env
By the Numbers
- Evals: $400k/quarter per contract (Phase 0 = 1 contract, 20 by 2028)
- Drone video: 2 farms × 10 hrs/day at $25/hr, licensed to 2 labs, rising to 3 by 2028; licenses renew yearly
- Price per hour rises 25% for each year of history on the plot: more history gives new footage more context
- Partner farms: 1–2 new farms a month from Jul 2027, rising to 10 a month by Apr 2028
Sources
Market
- TechCrunch, micro1 raises at $500M valuation, $7M to $50M ARR (Sep 2025)
- TechCrunch, micro1 crosses $100M ARR (Dec 2025)
- TechCrunch, micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate (Aug 2026)
- TechCrunch, Mercor run rate history (Sep 2025)
- TechCrunch, AI startups growing revenue faster (Mercor $2B, Jul 2026)
- Snorkel AI press release, run rate past $350M (Sep 2026)
- Upstarts Media via Techmeme, Handshake AI $100M run rate (Oct 2025)
- Dealroom citing The Information, Handshake AI nears $1B (Apr 2026)
- BetaKit, Mecka AI $60M Series B led by Sequoia (Oct 2026)
- Fortune via RuntimeWire, Mecka AI raises $60M (Jun 2026)
- Protege, $10M seed (Sep 2024)
- CDO Magazine, Protege $25M Series A (Aug 2025)
- Lowenstein, Protege $30M Series A-1 led by a16z (Jan 2026)
- Lightspeed, Luel $31.2M (May 2026)
- Humanoids Daily, Build AI $15M (Dec 2025)
- OurCryptoTalk, Kled $5.5M seed (Mar 2026)
- Phemex, Kled $3M from The Data Foundation (Jun 2026)
- Gartner, worldwide AI spending forecast, AI Data segment (May 2026)
Photos
Logos
- OpenAI and Anthropic logos (illustrative targets; trademarks belong to their owners): Simple Icons, CC0
- AWS logo: Wikimedia Commons
- Patreon logomark: Wikimedia Commons
- MadHive logo: madhive.com
- Emory University logo: emory.edu
- Skild AI logo: skild.ai
- Google DeepMind logo: Wikimedia Commons
- Physical Intelligence logo: Wikimedia Commons
- Figure logo: figure.ai
- Protege logo: withprotege.ai
- Troveo logo: troveo.ai
- Wirestock logo: wirestock.io
- micro1 logo: micro1.ai
- Mecka logo: mecka.ai
- Kled logo: kled.ai
- Origin Lab logo: originlab.ai
- TollBit logo: tollbit.com
- Build AI logo: build.ai
- Luel logo: luel.ai
- Mercor logo: mercor.com
- Snorkel AI logo: snorkel.ai
- Handshake logo: joinhandshake.com
Sources: Roadmap
- Financial Express 2022-12-28: Agriculture Census 2019, 16.88M farm households
- TechCrunch 2025-09-09: Mercor $75M (Feb 2025), $100M (Mar 2025), ~$450M gross
- TechCrunch 2026-07-09: Mercor run rate crossed $2B
- Dealroom 2026-07-06: Mercor $2B gross, roughly double the start of 2026
- Upstarts Media 2025-10-14: Handshake AI $100M in 8 months
- Dealroom 2026-04-14: Handshake AI nearly $1B gross; $550M in Jan 2026
- TechCrunch 2025-12-04: micro1 $7M to >$100M ARR
- TechCrunch 2026-08-20: micro1 $500M gross, $150-200M net
- TechCrunch 2026-09-22: Snorkel $375M; 60-70% contractor payout at Mercor, Handshake and micro1
- Reuters via The Star 2026-09-22: Snorkel data service launched Sep 2025
- Dealroom/The Information 2026-09-29: Proximal >$200M (QTD x4)
- Proximal blog 2026-09-29: New Frontiers
- The AI Insider 2026-10-08: Mecka >$100M run rate (company claim)
- TechCrunch 2026-09-11: Mecka founded 2024; June projection of $100M by end-2026
- TechCrunch 2026-05-14: Wirestock $40M run rate; 700K contributors
- Buzzsprout/PMF Show 2026-04-13: Protege GMV $1M to $30M; ~250 partners
- Humanoids Daily 2026-09-08: Index 69,943 WAU; 35 min of video per second
- Scroll.in 2026-05-20: 100M-1B hours, $1.5B-50B over 2-3 years (VC estimate)
- MIT Technology Review 2026-04-01: robotics firms spend >$100M/yr on real-world data
- Figure 2026-08-25: Index launch; >$1B on data and compute in 12 months
- Unite.AI 2026-08-10: Dyna DYNA-2 trained on 1M+ hours of human video
- arXiv 2602.08593 (Feb 2026): $110 soil probe node, Punjab smallholder pilot
- DexSet 2026-07-02: robot training data price ladder, QA rejection
- Exylos 2026-09-05: robotics dataset pricing; no basis for an exclusivity multiple
- TechCrunch 2026-05-26: Human Archive $1/hr base; India ₹250-400/hr
- Globe and Mail ~2026-10: gig collector pay $2.40-4.50 per approved hour; XDOF targeting 10M hours
- ABC News 2026-09-20: Appen ~60K hrs/month from up to 5,000 contributors; 'commoditised and de-valued'
- StartupFeed 2026-07-01: India collection rates fell 30% (single source)
- TechCrunch 2026-01-27: Uber AV Labs data free to partners
- Epoch AI 2026-01-12: RL environment pricing FAQ
- arXiv 2412.19740 (Dec 2024): coastal SW Bangladesh salinity; Dumuria bands
- Land Reforms Act 2023, official text (ss.2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 15)
- US State Dept 2025 ICS Bangladesh: land via local company; Tk121/$
- FAO WCA 2020: Bangladesh Agricultural Census 2019 holdings and tenure
- TBS 2021-12-22: PRAN ~100k contract farmers; industry ~200k
- Financial Express 2026-02-05: Grameenphone 2025 revenue Tk 158.06bn
- Daily Star 2025-10-02: PRAN-RFL $3bn turnover (claimed)
- Papermart (undated): Meghna ~$3bn turnover (claimed)
- Securiti 2026-06-29: PDPA 2026 cross-border restrictions
- Daily Star 2026-07-07: PDPA in force 15 Apr 2026
- Lenny's Newsletter 2025-09-18: Mercor $1M to $500M in 17 months (month-0 inference)
