Where is Surge located?

Surge is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.

Who is the current CEO of Surge?

Edwin Chen of Surge. They have also founded 1 company.

How many employees does Surge have?

As of Jun 30, 2026, the latest employee count at Surge is 374.

Is Surge a funded company?

Surge is a funded company, having raised a total of $***** in its 1st and only funding round.

Where does Surge rank among its competitors?

Surge ranks 5th amongst 29 active competitors, of which 5 are funded. It stands 6th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was Scale AI, which secured $14.3B in Jun, 2025.

Who are the top competitors of Surge?

Surge's top competitors include Scale AI, iMerit and Refuel. Among them, Scale AI secured the most recent funding round in June, 2025.

Surge - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Company Details

Provider of a cloud-based platform to label machine learning data. It features a variety of input types such as multiple choice, free response, named entity recognition, bounding box, and more. It allows users to label hate speech & misinformation, measure the AI and design custom tasks.

Website: surgehq.ai
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Email ID: *****@surgehq.ai, *****@surgehq.ai

Key Metrics

Founded Year

2020

Location

San Francisco, United States

Stage

Funding Raised

Investors

Series Z

Ranked

5^th among 29 active competitors

Employee Count

374 as on Jun 30, 2026

Similar Companies

Scale AI & 15 more

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Surge is associated with 1 legal entity given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count	Documents
SURGE LABS, INC. CIN: 5961330 , United States, Active	Mar 11, 2021	-	-	-

Surge is a funded company. Surge has 1 institutional investor.

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The founders of Surge is Edwin Chen. Edwin Chen is the CEO of Surge.

Here are the details of Surge's key team members:

Edwin Chen: Founder & CEO of Surge.
Contact Info: 2 email addresses

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Surge's employee count trend

Surge has 374 employees as of Jun 26. Here is Surge's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Surge include Scale AI, iMerit and Refuel. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Surge, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	Scale AI 2016, San Francisco (United States), Series G	Labeled data to train AI applications	$15.9B	Y Combinator, Tiger Global Management & 63 others	77/100
2nd	iMerit 2012, San Jose (United States), Series B	AI based data annotation, model fine-tuning, and validation solutions	$24.3M	Omidyar Network India, British International Investment ... & 5 others	64/100
3rd	Refuel 2021, San Francisco (United States), Acquired	Provider of a platform using LLMs to transform enterprise data	$5.2M	General Catalyst, XYZ Venture Capital	57/100
4th	PublicAI 2023, Hong Kong (China), Funding Raised	Decentralized platform for outsourcing multiple tasks	-	-	43/100
5th	Surge 2020, San Francisco (United States), Funding Raised	Provider of a cloud-based platform to label machine learning data	-	Series Z	48/100
6th	HEU Technologies 2009, Hyderabad (India), Unfunded	Offers humanoid robots and robotic training & courses	-	-	34/100
7th	LightTag 2018, Berlin (Germany), Acquired	Provides a task management tool	-	-	34/100
8th	Attentio 2023, United States, Unfunded	Platform offering AI training services	-	-	33/100
9th	Labellerr 2019, Wilmington (United States), Seed	Provider of data annotation platform, image annotation, and annotation services	$225K	Upekkha, IIT Mandi Catalyst & 1 others	32/100
10th	Equature 1969, Southfield (United States), Unfunded	Provider of AI-powered software for communications recording and transcription solutions	-	-	31/100