Miju LabsThe comparable set · 9 companies
Companies that already picked one domain
Not the generalists — those are in the atlas. These are the companies that decided to be the best source for a single vertical, which is the shape being considered here. What they sell, what they pay, who buys, and how well it is actually going.
| Company | Domain | Raised | Last valuation | Revenue | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contra Labs | Design | ~$45.2M at the parent, across all rounds. No Contra Labs–specific round exists | Not disclosed, at any round | Not disclosed | Active — five months old, five open roles, no named customer |
| Taste Labs | Design | $18.5M seed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Active — out of stealth, ~20 founding staff |
| Design Arena | Design | $7.9M seed | Not disclosed | $60M ARR claimed; gross or net not stated | Active — less than a year old |
| Irregular | Offensive security | $80M (September 2025) | $450M | Not disclosed | Active — ~35 employees, evaluating for four labs |
| Vals AI | Multi-vertical benchmarking | $40M Series A | $400M | Not disclosed in absolute terms — reported up 8x versus all of 2025 | Active — cited in model cards from five labs |
| Halluminate | Investment banking and PE modelling | $160K disclosed in one directory — almost certainly stale; seed reported closed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Active — hiring, SF in-person |
| Centaur Labs | Clinical | ~$31M — $15M Series A plus $16M Series B | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Active — trading as Centaur AI |
| Edison Scientific | Life-science wet lab | $70M seed (December 2025) | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Active — building Kosmos; LAB-Bench 2 published |
| Phinity Labs | Chip design | Not confirmed. No primary source | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Active — hiring a founding RTL/DV engineer |
Contra Labs
Not a startup — a business line of a six-year-old freelance marketplace, launched five months after a $740K cheque. The template everyone wants to copy, and the parts of it that do not survive inspection.
Taste Labs
$18.5M from CRV and Amplify to sell judgment. Design is the beachhead, not the business — which is the difference between this and everyone else in the lane.
Design Arena
5.3M users, $60M ARR, under a year old — the consumer-arena route into the same data. Nobody has said whether that number is gross or net.
Irregular
The company you have filed as Pattern Labs. Same firm, new name: 35 people in Tel Aviv running cyber evals for four frontier labs, at $450M.
Vals AI
$40M at $400M for building the benchmark layer in professions the labs were not yet buying for. The existence proof that a specialist can manufacture a budget rather than wait for one.
Halluminate
Occupies the finance niche by name, with $160K of disclosed funding that is almost certainly stale. Whether investment banking is taken or barely touched turns on a number nobody has.
Centaur Labs
The clinical incumbent: $31M raised to crowdsource medical annotation through a diagnosis game. It sells labelled artefacts, which leaves physician reasoning unsold.
Edison Scientific
$70M and already contracting PhD biologists to build its own benchmark. The wet-lab position is not open — it is occupied by a company that built the moat before selling anything.
Phinity Labs
The only named chip-design environment vendor anywhere — and its funding, investors and customers are all unconfirmed because the sources are paywalled. This page marks an unknown.