- Recent Funding
- Founders
- Jason Chong
About Jason
Jason Chong is a co-founder of Mecka, a company that builds data, evaluation, and deployment infrastructure for robots and embodied AI. Mecka collects and analyzes human motion data to train AI and robotics systems by paying people to record themselves doing everyday tasks while wearing body sensors and using smartphones. Prior to Mecka, Chong co-founded Utopia Labs, a company specializing in on-chain payment infrastructure, which was acquired by Coinbase. He then joined Coinbase after the acquisition.
Strengths: founder archetype
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Why repeat founder
Jason Chong has founded multiple companies, demonstrating a pattern of entrepreneurial ventures. His background in building payment infrastructure and then transitioning to robotics data infrastructure suggests a technical aptitude and an ability to operate within different domains.
The signals behind it 4
- Jason Chong's cryptocurrency exchange was acquired by Coinbase, and he joined Coinbase afterwards.Repeat founder · Domain operator
F - Chong's previous company was called Utopia Labs, which specialized in building on-chain payment infrastructure and was acquired by Coinbase at the end of 2024.Repeat founder · Technical builder · Domain operator
E - None of the four people have ever worked on robots.Domain operator
E - Jason Chong, who joined Coinbase after it acquired his cryptocurrency exchangeRepeat founder · Domain operator
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Jason Chong | Fintech to Robotics Data Infrastructure
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Network
Timeline, line by line 4
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F- Mecka raised $8M (Seed), led by Neo.Aug 14, 2025
T - Utopia Labs acquired by Coinbase2024
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Interviews and coverage
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- Exclusive: Mecka AI raises $60 million to train robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhonesFortune · Jun 1, 2026
F - Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training dataTechCrunch · Sep 11, 2026T
- Mecka AI Valued at $500M by HSG – AI Platform Hiring People to Film Coffee-Making Scenes36Kr · Sep 14, 2026
E - Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led roundUA.NEWS · Sep 12, 2026
U - Robot Data Startup Mecka AI Raises $60M Led by Sequoia CapitalTechJuice · Oct 8, 2026
T - Robot Data Startup Mecka AI Raises $60 Mn Led By SequoiaBharat Fast · Oct 8, 2026
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How this is researched
Researched from public pages: press, interviews, the company's site and the founder's own posts. Each source logo links the page that states the row; anything we couldn't source is left out. The archetype is our reading of that record, from a fixed set so founders can be compared. Updated Oct 12, 2026.
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