Intelligence Raises $7.9 Million Seed Round to Scale Design Arena’s Human‑Feedback Platform

Key Points

• Intelligence closed a $7.9 million seed round led by Index Ventures.
• Design Arena, the company’s AI‑feedback tool, serves 5.3 million users globally.
• The platform generates $60 million in annual recurring revenue.
• Co‑founder Grace Li launched the startup in 2025 to address the lack of fun in AI‑generated games.
• Design Arena’s A/B testing interface lets users rank AI outputs across multiple formats.
• Enterprise customers use the service for continuous human‑led evaluation of generative models.
• Funding will expand engineering, analytics, and partnerships with frontier AI labs.
• Recent failures of similar startups highlight the importance of sustainable revenue models.