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Funding and backers

Total raised
$50M
1 round on record
Latest round
$50M
Series C · Dec 2023 · 2 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
11
+5 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Y Combinator, Accel
The money's age
Long since its last round
34 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
43/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Dec 4, 2023 Raised a round Series C $50M · TechCrunch Apr 19, 2022 On the Hacker News front page How DALL-E 2 Works · 252 points Dec 14, 2021 On the Hacker News front page PyTorch vs. TensorFlow in 2022 · 350 points Oct 7, 2021 On the Hacker News front page How to train large deep learning models as a startup · 273 points Apr 17, 2020 On the Hacker News front page Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch · 288 points Jun 2017 Went through Y Combinator 2017 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
179
best: 350 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series C Dec 2023 $50M — TechCrunch
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Overview

AssemblyAI is a developer focused company that provides speech and audio AI through an API. In practical terms, it helps software teams turn unstructured audio into text and structured information, such as transcripts, summaries, and other speech derived signals that can be used inside products and workflows. The core problem it addresses is that working with audio at scale is difficult and time consuming without reliable models and infrastructure, especially when teams need accuracy, speed, and an integration that is straightforward to maintain.

News

News assemblyai.com 29 days ago
Dear developers, we are open-sourcing our dictation app, Blurt
Hold a key, talk, and the words land wherever you
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News assemblyai.com 30 days ago
The first ever API built for dictation;Today we're launching the Dictation API
With AssemblyAI's industry-leading Speech AI models, transcribe speech to text and extract insights from your voice data.
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News gingerbill.org 2 months ago
Everyone Says Assembly Is Untyped-Everyone Is Wrong
TL;DR: I believe Odin's inline assembly is currently the best out of any language.The most important aspects are of this article listed below. I am not aware of any other assembly (GCC/Clang/Rust/Go...) that would combine all of these aspects:Inline assem
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News Agent Jido 2 months ago
Jido Assembly: A Slack clone built with Jido and Hologram
An architecture case study of a Slack clone built with Jido Agents, Jido Messaging, Jido Chat, Hologram, and the BEAM.
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News ABTdomain Blog 3 months ago
From Ford's Assembly Line to Local AI Pipelines
A design pattern for local AI workflows, illustrated through a UDRP-inspired domain-risk pipeline In 1913, at Highland Park, Ford's engineers broke the assembly of a flywheel magneto into 29 one-man...
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News products.documentize.ai 3 months ago
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at AssemblyAI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
41
Postings analysed
27
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript33%
JavaScript33%
Python30%
SQL15%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js30%
Databases
BigQuery4%
Google BigQuery4%
Cloud & platforms
Figma30%
AWS11%
SIEM7%
Azure4%
AI & ML
LLM100%
Claude7%
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Full AssemblyAI tech stack 41 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
70/100
Growing
Open positions
11
1 opened / 10 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
35 days
faster than 36% 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.
Backend
30% ▲
Industrial Engineering
30% ▼
AI/ML
9%
HR
9% ▲
Sales
9% ▲
Frontend
4% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: United Kingdom Sep 2026
New location: United States Sep 2026
Added Stripe to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack Sep 2026
Added OWASP to stack Sep 2026
Added Voice Agents to stack Sep 2026
Added Tool Use to stack Sep 2026
Added Human-in-the-Loop to stack Sep 2026
Added Function Calling to stack Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack Sep 2026
New location: Toronto Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
13
Hiring now
2
Countries
3
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
Remote - San Francisco
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Apr 2026 careers board, job postings
London United Kingdom
Sales office
Remote - United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Chicago United States
Regional office
Remote - Chicago
2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
seen since Aug 2026 careers board
Los Angeles United States
Regional office
Remote - Los Angeles
1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
seen since Aug 2026 careers board
Denver United States
Regional office
Remote - Denver
1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
seen since Aug 2026 careers board
Seattle United States
Regional office
Remote - Seattle
1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
seen since Aug 2026 careers board
Atlanta United States
Regional office
Remote - Atlanta
careers board
Dallas United States
Regional office
Remote - Dallas
careers board
Miami United States
Regional office
Remote - Miami
careers board
Raleigh United States
Regional office
Remote - Raleigh
careers board
Boston United States
Regional office
Remote - Boston
careers board
Austin United States
Regional office
Remote - Austin
careers board
Luxembourg City Luxembourg
Regional office
Remote - Luxembourg
careers board
Earlier presence
New York, United States 4 open roles · last posting Sep 2026
Washington, United States 1 open roles · last posting Sep 2026
Toronto, Canada 1 open roles · last posting Sep 2026

Jobs

≈ $113k – $250k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely United States)
Python
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
LLM
LLM Evaluation
Cybersecurity
GDPR
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≈ $87k – $174k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States) • 3+ years exp • United States
Python
Copilot
Claude Code
AI Agents
LLM
DevOps
Terraform
CI/CD
AWS
IAM
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
OWASP Top 10
SOC 2
GDPR
CWE
Threat Modeling
SIEM
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≈ $134k – $310k per year (Estimated) • In office
LLM
Edge AI
Machine Learning
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Apply
≈ $129k – $330k per year (Estimated) • Remote (North America) • 4+ years exp
Python
SQL
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Claude Code
dbt
Function Calling
LLM
Human-in-the-Loop
Tool Use
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Analytics
Looker
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≈ $89k – $170k per year (Estimated) • In office • United Kingdom
LLM
Edge AI
Machine Learning
Cybersecurity
GDPR
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Financials

Total raised
$50M
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series C 2023 $50M Details