Mercor Blog

Jun 30, 2025

Welcome to The Era of Evals

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is driving the most exciting advancements in AI. RL is becoming so effective that models will be able to saturate any evaluation. This means that the primary barrier to applying agents to the entire economy is building evals for everything. However, AI labs are facing a dire shortage of relevant evaluations.

Brendan FoodyCo-founder / CEO

May 08, 2025

Why I Joined Mercor

Throughout my career, I’ve been drawn to foundational challenges. The kind that, if solved right, can transform the biggest systems in the world. With each technological shift – web, cloud, mobile, and now AI – we’ve seen a new class of category-defining companies emerge.

Srini RajagopalVP Engineering

Feb 20, 2025

Announcing Mercor's Series B

Mercor is the global allocator for extraordinary human talent in the AI economy, and one of the fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley history. We’ve just raised a $100M Series B to solve the hardest problem in capitalism: matching human ability to its greatest use.

Brendan FoodyCo-founder / CEO

Mar 03, 2025

The Secret Mercor Master Plan

Imagine a world where Jeff Bezos is a hedge fund investor, Howard Shultz is a salesman, and Reed Hastings is a teacher. That was the world we lived in, not so long ago. These are the jobs they were doing before they found the best use for their talents.

Brendan FoodyCo-founder / CEO

Jan 10, 2024

Introducing Mercor: Redefining Hiring With AI

Today, we're excited to announce $3.6M in funding and the launch of our fully-automated platform, which uses AI to assess and match talent with companies. Our round is led by General Catalyst and includes participation from Scott Sandell (Chairman, CEO and CIO of NEA) and others.

Brendan FoodyCo-founder / CEO