Inigo Lenderking is Co-Founder and COO at Luel (YC W26), a rights-cleared multimodal data marketplace powering the next generation of frontier AI models.

Inigo previously worked as a Machine Learning Researcher before dropping out of UC Berkeley's CS program to build Luel alongside co-founder William Namgyal.

Inigo identified a critical gap in the AI training data supply chain, where public web data is largely exhausted and frontier labs need rights-cleared, audit-ready multimodal datasets at speed and scale.

Luel was accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch and has raised $500K in seed funding, with backing from investors connected to xAI, Meta, DoorDash, and Apple.

Luel mobilizes a global contributor network to deliver licensed, to-spec datasets across video, audio, and images within days, and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing startups in the YC W26 cohort.