Worldmodeldata
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About
Worldmodeldata is a Cambridge, UK-based AI data infrastructure startup building a training-data library sourced from modern video games for world models, vision-language-action (VLA) systems, and physical AI. The company argues that gameplay footage captures rich, dynamic human-in-the-loop interaction data at a scale unavailable in real-world video, and is aggregating and structuring these datasets under commercial agreements with game studios. Founder and CEO Rhea Loucas, a serial entrepreneur, has set a target of accumulating one million hours of curated gameplay data by the end of 2026 — the current largest comparable database contains roughly 40,000 hours. Lord Richard Allan, former Meta VP of Public Policy, joined the board as chairman on emergence from stealth 123.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
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| 2026-07-06 | Seed | £7M | Iona Star Capital | (not disclosed in accessed sources) 123 |
Proceeds will fund product development, team expansion, and further data-sourcing agreements with game studios 12.
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Sources
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UKTN, “Worldmodeldata raises £7m to accelerate gaming data for AI training,” July 6, 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://www.uktech.news/funding/worldmodeldata-raises-7m-to-accelerate-gaming-data-for-ai-training-202607↩↩↩
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Business Cloud, “Worldmodeldata raises £7m to unlock gaming data for AI training,” July 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://businesscloud.co.uk/news/worldmodeldata-raises-7m-to-unlock-gaming-data-for-ai-training/↩↩↩
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Tech Funding News, “Ex-Meta policy VP joins board as Worldmodeldata raises £7M seed. Can it hit 1M hours of data before its rivals do?,” July 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://techfundingnews.com/worldmodeldata-7m-seed-ai-training-data-video-games/↩↩