Acumen

Asset Management & Funds · Nonprofits & Foundations
Sponsors visas
4Open roles
$183kMedian advertised pay

Facts

as of Nov 15, 2026

Acumen is a global nonprofit that tackles poverty by investing returnable capital in social enterprises. It operates Acumen Capital Partners and Acumen Academy and has offices in Nairobi, Lagos, Islamabad, Kuala Lumpur and London. The organisation is headquartered in New York, United States.

It is hiring: 4 open roles, 0 of them posted in the last 30 days.

Headquarters
New York, United States
Employees
51-200estimated range
Open roles
4 in 3 citiesAlion job postings
Website
acumen.ai

As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 4 open roles at Acumen. Acumen is headquartered in New York, United States. The latest round is Seed of $7M, announced in 2021.

Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake

What the registers and the postings say about this employer.

Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices

Hiring slowly: few roles were posted lately.

Finance is the largest family, 50 of open roles.

0%Remote roles0 of 4
3Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
2 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States2On site
India1On site
United Kingdom1On site
Colombia1On site
Remote, from elsewhere0Rare
Some postings offer visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 0.
Open roles over time+100%
Sep 21This week
Open roles a week: 1 then, 2 now
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Finance50▲
HR25▲
Field & Service25▲
Newest roles
Head of People & Talent
$200k – $225k per year · Hybrid · PhD · New York
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 50%Doctoral Degree (PhD) 50%
2 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Hybrid work250%
Visa sponsorship in some rolesRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family

Pay

What its postings pay, by level.

$183kMedian
$140k – $225kTypical rangeUSD a year
$225kHighest paying roleHead of People & Talent
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year

Named in the work visa registers of United States, United Kingdom.

United StatesUS 1 United KingdomUK A-rated #5,755 of 8,998 sponsors
1H-1B filings in 12 months
55Green card filings
$98kMedian offered salary
Who they sponsor
Software quality assurance analysts and testers1
The salary offered for each occupationVisa pass · 90 credits

In the register as Acumen LLC, Burlingame, CA (+1 more)

Other sponsors in the same field
See 2 open roles Alert me
US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 24, 2026

Footprint

Hiring in 3 cities in 3 countries.

3Cities
3Countries
New YorkBusiest site
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SiteTypeOpen rolesHires most forEngineering
New York United StatesHeadquarters2Finance, HR0%
Mumbai IndiaRegional office1Field & Service0%
London United KingdomRegional office1Finance0%
Bogotá ColombiaRegional office0
San Francisco United StatesRegional office0
Kuala Lumpur MalaysiaRegional office0
Lagos NigeriaRegional office0
Karachi PakistanRegional office0
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers

Financials

Funding rounds, investors and revenue on record.

$7MTotal raised
$1MPublic grants1 public grant
SeedLatest round
2Rounds and grants
Money by yearUSD, rounds and grants
2021$7M1 record
2016$1M1 record
Largest rounds and grants
2021
$7M
2016
$1M
Sources: funding announcements, grant and company registers

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Acumen over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.

2Technologies in use
1Postings analysed
32/100Stack modernity
Developer toolsCanvaMicrosoft Excel
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site

Milestones

Feb 24, 2021
Raised a round Seed $7M · TechCrunch
May 15, 2016
Won a grant $1M · CORDIS
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press

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News · Forbes
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News · TechCrunch
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