Turing
Turing is a leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises deploying advanced AI systems. Turing supports customers by accelerating frontier research with high-quality data, advanced training pipelines, and top AI researchers, plus helping enterprises transform AI from proof of concept into proprietary intelligence.
Founding Story
Turing was founded based upon the idea that talent is universal while opportunities are not. The founders discovered the power of using remote teams during their previous venture, Rover, which they started while attending Stanford. The cost and challenge of competing with Google, Facebook, and other giant Silicon Valley companies led them to source highly skilled remote developers from around the world. Their experience at Rover convinced them that remote-distributed teams are the future of work.
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Leadership
Founders
Jonathan Siddharth
CEO and Co-Founder of Turing.com. Before starting Turing, Jonathan was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Foundation Capital, following the successful sale of his previous AI company, Rover that focused on deep personalization of content recommendations. Jonathan received the best Masters Thesis Award in Computer Science at Stanford University where he specialized in Artificial Intelligence. Previously founded Rover while at Stanford.
Vijay Krishnan
Co-Founder & CTO of Turing.com. Before co-founding Turing, Vijay was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Foundation Capital following the successful sale of his last AI company, Rover, a business he co-founded while at Stanford. Before Rover, Vijay was a scientist at Yahoo's Data Mining and Research group. Master's degree in computer science from Stanford University, specializing in AI. Previously worked at IIT Bombay.
Executive Team
Jonathan Siddharth
Founder & CEO
Stanford CS Masters (Best Thesis Award in AI). Previously founded and sold Rover (AI company). Former EIR at Foundation Capital.
Vijay Krishnan
Co-Founder & CTO
Stanford CS Masters (AI specialization). Previously founded and sold Rover. Former scientist at Yahoo Data Mining and Research. IIT Bombay background.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Turing operates on multiple revenue streams: 1) API usage and subscriptions for AGI advancement services (data generation, model evaluation, post-training), 2) Enterprise AI implementation and consulting services for building proprietary intelligence systems, 3) Talent marketplace fees for connecting vetted AI/engineering talent with companies (typical hourly rates $100-$200 for mid to senior-level engineers).
Pricing Tiers
40 hours per week for mid to senior-level engineers and AI talent
Enterprise pricing for LLM training data, evals, benchmarks, and post-training datasets
Strategy, build, and deployment of production-ready AI systems
Target Markets
- Frontier AI labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.)
- Fortune 500 companies
- High tech companies
- Banking & financial services
- Retail
- Healthcare
- LLM training and post-training data generation
- Model evaluation and benchmarking
- Advanced reasoning and coding capabilities
- Multimodal AI development
- Enterprise AI system deployment
- Remote engineering team building
- Google Gemini
- Anthropic
- Snowflake
- Character.ai
History & Milestones
Raised $111 million Series E at $2.2 billion valuation, bringing total funding to $247 million
Achieved profitability with $300 million in annual revenue runrate (ARR), nearly triple the prior year. Grew platform to 4 million+ developers, data scientists, STEM and Math professionals.
Raised $87 million Series D at $1.1 billion valuation, achieving unicorn status
Raised $14 million seed round led by Foundation Capital
Raised $32 million Series B led by WestBridge Capital and Foundation Capital. Revenue grew 17x from $700K to almost $12 million. Reached 200,000 developers on platform.
