MicroAGI (shift platform)

Gig app, HQ Germany. Munich startup founded by ex-Red Bull Racing aerodynamicist Bercan Kilic; records workers with cameras and sensor gloves for factory-robot training.

Data it collects

Workers in

United States

Scale

• $55M seed, largest ever in Germany; data licensed exclusively to frontier AI labs (2026-07-17)
• shift operates in 15 countries and pays more than 20,000 people to record physical tasks (2026-07-16)
• $55m seed round, described as the largest seed round for a German company (2026-07-16)

Pay

• Pays recorders; also barters free services (apartment cleanings in New York, private chefs in San Francisco) in exchange for filming the workers
• from $20/h microagi head-cam task recording heise.de ↗ Major outlet

Events

• 2026-07-17 microagi raises $55M, Germany's largest seed yahoo.com ↗ Secondary

Sources

• shift now operates in 15 countries and pays more than 20,000 people to record themselves performing physical tasksthenextweb.com ↗ Secondary 2026-07-16
• It went viral this year offering free apartment cleanings in New York in exchange for filming the cleaners doing dishes, mopping, and folding laundry.thenextweb.com ↗ Secondary 2026-07-16
• This week it started offering free private chefs in San Francisco.thenextweb.com ↗ Secondary 2026-07-16
• Robotics data startup Microagi closed a $55 million seed funding round, the largest ever in Germanyyahoo.com ↗ Secondary 2026-07-17
• It has licensed some of that data exclusively to frontier AI labsyahoo.com ↗ Secondary 2026-07-17
• This could earn them $20 or more per hourheise.de ↗ Major outlet 2026-07-22
• In New York, there is currently a promotion where cleaning staff paid by microagi clean apartments for free.heise.de ↗ Major outlet 2026-07-22

Every row links to its source, and hovering a link shows the quote it rests on. Research compiled 2026-10-05. Method