Archer

Archer

Global payouts for the workforce powering AI

San Francisco
4 employees
Crypto
Seed · $500K

About Archer

Archer is the financial infrastructure for the AI data economy.

We’re building global payouts, stablecoin banking, and yield infrastructure for the companies supplying data to frontier AI labs.

As demand for high-quality data grows, millions of contributors around the world are generating, labeling, validating, and improving the datasets that power modern AI systems. Yet the financial infrastructure behind these platforms remains slow, fragmented, and expensive.

Archer enables data marketplaces, AI labor platforms, and reinforcement learning environment providers to onboard workers globally, pay contributors instantly, and earn yield on idle balances.

Today, companies use Archer to manage contributor earnings, global payouts, and treasury operations across hundreds of countries and payment corridors.

We believe the next generation of AI companies will need purpose-built financial infrastructure. Just as cloud providers became the backbone of software, Archer is building the financial layer for the global workforce powering artificial intelligence.

Company details

Team Size4
LocationSan Francisco
IndustryCrypto

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

VY

Vivek Yanamadula

Co-founder, CTO @ Archer | Ex-AWS, B.A./M.S. CS @ Columbia University

BN

Benjamin Nguyen

Previously COO at Absinthe Labs; BA in Operations Research from Columbia University.

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.