Brendan Cando is a co-founder and Co-CEO of Mercor, an AI company that builds infrastructure connecting human experts with AI laboratories and enterprises for frontier-model training and evaluation. Brendan Cando's Twitter Score is 132 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #4,693 (top 1%) among 499,369 tracked accounts.
Brendan Cando co-founded Mercor and serves as its Co-CEO. The company raised a $30 million Series A at a $250 million valuation in September 2024, led by Benchmark, and followed that with a $350 million Series C in October 2025 that valued Mercor at $10 billion. Brendan Cando is also a fellow of the Thiel Fellowship.
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