Arena

Arena

Where AI meets the real world.

San Francisco, California, United States
2 employees
Analytics
Series A · $250M

About Arena

Arena Intelligence is the open platform for evaluating how AI models perform in the real world. Created by researchers from UC Berkeley’s SkyLab, our mission is to measure and advance the frontier of AI for real-world use.

Millions of people use Arena Intelligence each month to explore how frontier systems perform — and we use our community’s feedback to build transparent, rigorous, and human-centered model evaluations. Leading enterprises and AI labs rely on our evaluations to understand real-world reliability, alignment, and impact. Our leaderboards are the gold standard for AI performance — trusted by leaders across the AI community and shaping the global conversation on model reliability and progress.

We’re a team of researchers, engineers, academics, and builders from places like UC Berkeley, Google, Stanford, DeepMind, and Discord. We seek truth, move fast, and value craftsmanship, curiosity, and impact over hierarchy.

We’re building a company where thoughtful, curious people from all backgrounds can do their best work. Everyone on our team is a deep expert in their field — our office radiates excellence, energy, and focus.

Open positions (19)

Company details

Team Size2
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
IndustryAnalytics

Funding

Total raised

$250M

Last stage

Series A

Investors

Andreessen Horowitz
Felicis Ventures
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Kleiner Perkins
UC Investments

Founders

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Anastasios Angelopoulos

PhD from UC Berkeley with expertise in trustworthy AI systems and black-box decision-making; former researcher at Google DeepMind.

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WC

Wei-Lin Chiang

PhD student at UC Berkeley SkyLab focused on building AI evaluation systems; prior research experience at Google Research, Amazon, and Microsoft.

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Ion Stoica

Ion Stoica

Professor at UC Berkeley and Director of the Sky Computing Lab; serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Databricks, Anyscale, and Conviva.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.