AfterQuery 传闻以 32 亿美元估值成为 Y Combinator 史上最快独角兽

AI训练数据初创公司AfterQuery据报道：https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/09/01/afterquery-becomes-ycs-fastest-unicorn-at-32-billion/ 完成了一轮融资，估值达32亿美元。这距离其在四月宣布以3亿美元估值完成3000万美元A轮融资仅五个月。

这是不到半年的时间内增长超过10倍，根据Y Combinator合伙人Gustaf Alströmer的说法，这是加速器历史上任何初创公司从成立到独角兽地位的最快速度。AfterQuery的创始人目前分别为22岁和23岁，他们在18个月前参加了Y Combinator 2025年冬季班。

今年四月，这家旧金山初创公司表示其年化收入运行率已达1亿美元：https://www.afterquery.com/blog/human-expertise-reimagined，并且正在与许多最大的实验室合作。它提到Nvidia、Legora和韩国AI实验室Motif Technologies等公司是其客户。

AfterQuery位于新一批初创企业中，其追随Mercor和Scale的脚步，雇佣医生、律师及其他专家等知识专业人士进行模型训练。然而，AfterQuery并不是简单确保模型回答问题的准确性，而是训练模型和智能体像专业人士一样完成任务——公司称之为“编码世界顶级从业者的模式、决策和推理”。

福布斯首次报道了此轮融资。暂时无法联系到AfterQuery发表评论。

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AI training-data startup AfterQuery has reportedly：https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/09/01/afterquery-becomes-ycs-fastest-unicorn-at-32-billion/ raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion. This just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April.

That’s more than a 10x increase in less than half a year and, according to Y Combinator partner Gustaf Alströmer, the fastest：https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/09/01/afterquery-becomes-ycs-fastest-unicorn-at-32-billion/ that any startup has gone from launch to unicorn status in the accelerator’s history. AfterQuery’s founders, today 22 and 23 years old, attended Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 cohort, just 18 months ago.

In April, the San Francisco startup said it had reached an annualized revenue run rate of $100 million：https://www.afterquery.com/blog/human-expertise-reimagined and that it was working with many of the biggest labs. It has named companies including Nvidia, Legora and the Korean AI lab Motif Technologies, as customers.

AfterQuery is among the new crop of startups following in the footsteps of Mercor and Scale that employ knowledge professionals like doctors, lawyers, and other specialists, to do model training. However, rather than ensuring that models answer questions accurately, AfterQuery trains models and agents on how to work like professionals would to complete tasks — what the company describes as “encoding the patterns, decisions, and reasoning of the world’s best practitioners.”

Forbes first reported on the round. AfterQuery could not be immediately reached for comment.

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