Toloka

Data vendor, HQ Netherlands, founded 2014. Runs crowdsourced and onsite robotics collection with temporal annotation and released the open HomER egocentric household-task dataset (v2 June 2026). Bezos Expeditions led a $72M round in May 2025, ending Nebius's majority voting control.

Data it collects

Known buyers

Scale

• Network of more than 200,000 annotators and other professionals (2025-05-07)
• Raised $72 million led by Bezos Expeditions; Nebius lost majority voting control but kept majority economic stake (2025-05-07)
• HomER v2: 765 head-mounted egocentric videos, about 100 hours, from 400+ contributors in 49 countries (2026-06-15)

Pay

• $0.34/h Platform micro-task workers (DiPLab survey, 600+ respondents) thecairoreview.com ↗ Secondary

Sources

• Toloka was founded in 2014 by Olga Megorskaya as a crowdsourcing and microtasking platformwikipedia.org ↗ Secondary 2026-10-05
• Following today's investment, Nebius will no longer have majority voting control of Tolokasiliconangle.com ↗ Secondary 2025-05-07
• relies on a network of more than 200,000 annotators and other professionalssiliconangle.com ↗ Secondary 2025-05-07
• Anthropic PBC, well-funded coding assistant startup Poolsidesiliconangle.com ↗ Secondary 2025-05-07
• Robotics models learn from video demonstrations, sensor streams, and human behavior in real environments. We run collection pipelines that capture the data at scale and return annotated datasets ready for your training loops.toloka.ai ↗ Company claim 2026-10-05
• Contributors record demonstrations in their natural environments.toloka.ai ↗ Company claim 2026-10-05
• The camera must be head-mounted and facing forward. Both hands must remain visible in the frame for at least 95% of the video.toloka.ai ↗ Company claim 2026-03-23
• HomER v2 contains 765 first-person videos — approximately 100 hours of real-world household activitytoloka.ai ↗ Company claim 2026-06-15

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