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Connections
News
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$88M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$80M
Venture round · Dec 2025 · 10 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
28
+4 posted in 30 days
Backers
6
Abstract Ventures, Felicis
The money's age
Fresh money
10 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
26/100
hiring for its size, fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Dec 17, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $80M · SEC Form D Apr 3, 2024 Raised a round Convertible Note $8M · SEC Form D 2024 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Dec 2025 $80M — SEC Form D
Convertible Note Apr 2024 $8M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Aaru, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Cameron FinkExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Edward KohExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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How Aaru hires

Truth index
B 80/100
Median time to fill
10 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Aaru scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 8 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 10 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Humans are unreliable narrators of their own behavior. Memory fails, incentives distort answers, and social pressure warps what people say away from what they actually do. Aaru leverages measurable outcomes and actions to become more accurate than any survey or traditional research.

Connections

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Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors5
K5 GlobalVia a fund
46 portfolio companies: OpenAI, Cockroachlabs, Claim and 43 more
Link VenturesVia a fund
82 portfolio companies: Darwin, Conifer, Link Studio Cambridge and 79 more
FelicisVia a fund
222 portfolio companies: n8n, Twitch, Arda and 219 more
240 portfolio companies: Reactor, 11x, 0G and 237 more
288 portfolio companies: Deliverect, Sesame AI, LinkedSee and 285 more
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News

News Vanity Fair 6 months ago
As Teens, They Founded a Billion-Dollar Startup. Now They Want to Shape the Future.
Cam Fink, John Kessler, and Ned Koh founded the AI unicorn Aaru when they were 18, 15, and 19. Now they've got even bigger ambitions.
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Report
IPG partners with Aaru AI for 'predictive simulations' of human behavior
Partnership aims to 'move the needle for creatives, not replace them.'
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News YahooFinance 1 year ago
IPG partners with Aaru for AI-powered consumer simulations
The deal will growAcxiom's identity resolution and audience management capabilities and bolster IPG's Interact platform with more data-driven tools.
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News semafor.com 2 years ago
No people, no problem: AI chatbots predict elections better than humans
Startup Aaru uses census data and other information to replicate voters and glean real-time information about political preferences.
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News IGN IN 11 years ago
Aaru's Awakening Review
Despite some good ideas and a cool art style, Aaru falls short of being a dream platformer.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Aaru over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
28
Postings analysed
20
Stack modernity
73/100AI adopter
Languages
Python40%
JavaScript15%
TypeScript10%
SQL5%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js10%
Databases
Google BigQuery5%
Snowflake5%
Cloud & platforms
Databricks5%
AI & ML
LLM45%
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Full Aaru tech stack 28 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$425k
Typical range
$300k – $600k
Open positions
17
8 Jobs
Middle 25%
Staff 75%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 2 $600k $600k
Staff 6 $373k $300k – $425k
Highest paying role Researcher, Population Simulation $600k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Aaru By role, level and city, against the market · 17 jobs with pay

People

Cameron Fink
Executive Officer, Director
Edward Koh
Executive Officer, Director
Logan Bartlett
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
59/100
Growing
Open positions
28
3 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
14 days
faster than 67% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
24% ▼
HR
12% ▲
Solutions
12% ▼
AI/ML
8% ▼
Backend
8% ▲
Leadership
8% ▼
Actively hiring for HR (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
New York
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New York United States
HQ
23 open roles 21 posted in 90 days 39% engineering 200-500 est. staff $478k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Sales, Leadership
10 Harrison St.
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
Singapore Singapore
Sales office
4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $300k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Solutions
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
San Francisco United States
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $300k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Solutions
seen since Aug 2026 job postings

Jobs

$305k – $385k per year · In office · Full-Time · New York
LLM
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≈ $200k – $411k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · New York
Python
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$180k – $300k per year · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
Python
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$280k – $425k per year · In office · Full-Time · New York
AI Agents
LLM
Synthetic Data
Post-training
Feature Store
LLM Evaluation
Multi-Agent Systems
DevOps
Platform Engineering
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$280k – $425k per year · In office · Full-Time · New York
AI Agents
DevOps
Platform Engineering
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$200k – $600k per year · In office · Full-Time · New York
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Platform Engineering
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$280k – $425k per year · In office · Full-Time · PhD · New York
AI Agents
LLM
Recommender Systems
Multi-Agent Systems
Machine Learning
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$280k – $425k per year · In office · Full-Time · PhD · New York
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
Time Series
Post-training
Recommender Systems
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$200k – $600k per year · In office · Full-Time · PhD · New York
AI Agents
LLM
Recommender Systems
Multi-Agent Systems
Machine Learning
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$200k – $600k per year · In office · Full-Time · PhD · New York
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
Time Series
Post-training
Recommender Systems
Machine Learning
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≈ $100k – $186k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Singapore
Python
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$280k – $425k per year · In office · Full-Time · New York
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Financials

Total raised
$88M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $80M Details
Convertible Note 2024 $8M Details