AI data collection startup Sapien completed a $10.50 million seed round led by Variant, with participation from Primitive Ventures, Animoca, Yield Game Guild, and HF0. The Sapien team is led by Rowan Stone, co-founder of Coinbase Layer2 Network Base, and Trevor Koverko, founder of Polymath and author of the RWA standard ERC1400. Sapien uses the USDC stablecoin or reward points system to reward data providers.