Surya Midha (Co-founder of Mercor) Age, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Surya Midha

• His parents immigrated to the US from New Delhi, India.

• During his studies at Bellarmine College Preparatory from 2017 to 2021, Surya Midha often participated in policy debates.

• Once, he and his partner, Adarsh Hiremath, won all three major national policy debate tournaments. After that, they became the first team in the school’s history to win the same in a single year.

• The names of the tournaments were the Tournament of Champions (TOC), the National Debate Coaches Association Tournament (NDCA), and the National Speech and Debate Association Tournament (NSDA).

• After winning the tournaments, Surya Midha was honoured as the best speaker at both the TOC and NDCA.

• In 2021, he graduated as salutatorian from Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California.

• After that, Surya Midha was enrolled at Georgetown University, where he studied international relations, math, and economics for two years.

• During the same time, he also served as an Assistant Debate Coach at Bellarmine.

• After that, Surya Midha served as an Intern to Eswar Prasad in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution.

• He then worked as a Research Assistant to Caitlin Talmadge in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University.

• In 2023, Surya Midha took academic leave to co-found Mercor, a recruiting startup that helps big Silicon Valley AI labs train their models.

• He co-founded Mercor with high-school friends Brendan Foody and Adarsh Hiremath.​ Soon after it was started, they grew the business to a seven-figure business.

  

  Surya Midha with his partners

• They raised a $3.6 million in their first equity funding led by General Catalyst, an investment company.

• After that, they shifted their workplace from New York City to San Francisco, after their business experienced a bad month.

• Reportedly, each co-founder has 22% share in the company.​

• In March 2024, Surya Midha received the Thiel Fellowship, a program that gives $100,000 to young entrepreneurs who skip or drop out of college to build startups.

• In September 2024, they announced a $30 million Series A round at a $250 million valuation. A company named Benchmark led the round alongside General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey, Adam D’Angelo, and Larry Summers.

• In February 2025, they announced a $100 million Series B round at a $2 billion valuation. This time, Felicis led the round alongside General Catalyst, Benchmark, DST, and Menlo Ventures.

• In March 2025, their annual revenue was $100 million.

• In September 2025, Mercor announced that they had eaned $500 million in annual revenue.

• After that, Surya Midha, along with his co-founders, shared a Series C round at a $10 billion valuation.

• He enjoys tea and coffee in his free time. He likes Halloween and travelling to distant places.

• In October 2025, Surya Midha made headlines when he and his cofounders, Brendan Foody and Adarsh Hiremath, became the world’s three youngest self-made billionaires.

  

  Surya Midha with Brendan Foody (middle) and Adarsh Hiremath (left)

• According to many private investors, Mercor was valued at $10 billion at that time.

• During this time, all of them were 22 years old, but Surya Midha was the youngest by about two months.

• When the startup was launched, he served as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Mercor, Brendan Foody served as the Chief Operating Officer (CEO) of Mercor, and Adarsh Hiremath served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

• In October 2025, he started working as the chairman of the board.

• At the age of 22, Surya Midha made an individual record by beating the earlier record held by Mark Zuckerberg, who became a billionaire at the age of 23.