A
ArenaCrowdsourced AI model evaluation platform, born as Chatbot Arena at UC Berkeley, that ranks LLMs via human-preference voting and sells deep-dive model evaluations to AI labs.
2 Pulse stories
BA
Bland AIBuilds proprietary, in-house voice AI models that power enterprise AI phone agents for complex, high-stakes conversations.
3 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$250M
$106M
ArenaBland AI
Last Valuation
$1.7B
ArenaBland AI
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2024
Founded
2023
San Francisco, California
HQ
San Francisco, California
Private
Status
Private
Arena investors
FelicisAndreessen HorowitzThe House FundLDVPKleiner PerkinsLightspeed Venture PartnersLaude VenturesUC Investments
Bland AI investors
Dell Technologies CapitalEmergence CapitalY CombinatorUpfront VenturesScale Venture PartnersHubSpot VenturesTribeca Venture PartnersArcherman Capital
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