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People
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Jobs
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$235.2M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$165M
Series B · Mar 2025 · 19 mo ago
Team
535
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -22% in a year
Hiring now
5
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
General Catalyst, Spectrum Equity
The money's age
Due for its next round
19 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
23/100
hiring for its size, 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
Jul 7 Recognition Awardco Recognized Across Five Leading Industry Awards for Innovation, Impact, and Culture · morningstar.com Jan 13 Launched Awardco Launches Awardco Engage, a New Employee Listening and Insights Platform for the Modern Workforce · PRNewswire 2025 Team shrank to 535 was 684 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Mar 13, 2025 Raised a round Series B $165M · SEC Form D Oct 15, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $65.2M · SEC Form D 2021 Founded Jan 6, 2020 Raised a round Venture round $5M · SEC Form D
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Mar 2025 $165M — SEC Form D
Venture round Oct 2021 $65.2M — SEC Form D
Venture round Jan 2020 $5M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Current SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE AGREEMENT This SOFTWARE AS its site
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Steve SonnenbergExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Josh BushnellExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Michael SonnenbergExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Tanner RuniaExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How Awardco hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Awardco scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 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. 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

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · green card filings: 1

Visa details by country

Overview

Empower your teams with recognition that matters. Awardco is more than rewards and recognition—it's your culture engine for engagement and performance.

News

Award PRNewswire 9 months ago
Awardco Launches Awardco Engage, a New Employee Listening and Insights Platform for the Modern Workforce
/PRNewswire/ -- Awardco, the leading employee recognition and rewards platform, today announced the release Awardco Engage, a new employee listening and...
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Award YahooFinance 10 months ago
Awardco launches new mobile app, delivering the industry
Awardco, the leading employee recognition and rewards platform, today announced the launch of its new native mobile app, expanding the company
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Award Pulse 2.0 1 year ago
Awardco: $165 Million Series B Raised At $1+ Billion Valuation For Engagement Platform
Awardco announced a $165 million Series B round of funding with a valuation that surpassed $1 billion, enhancing its leadership and innovation in the employee rewards and recognition industry.
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Award PRNewswire 1 year ago
Awardco Raises $165 Million, Surpasses $1 Billion Valuation
/PRNewswire/ -- Awardco announced today a $165 million Series B round of funding with a valuation that eclipses $1 billion, further solidifying its leadership...
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Award kslcom 4 years ago
Awardco is giving away $1,000 to deserving Utahns
With your help, Awardco hopes to recognize and award individuals who are making a positive difference in the community through a monthly $1,000 grant. n
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Awardco over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
12
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
72/100AI adopter
Languages
Apex
Databases
Snowflake
Cloud & platforms
MuleSoft
Databricks
Tableau
AI & ML
LLM
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Full Awardco tech stack 12 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$50k
Typical range
$50k
Open positions
2
2 Jobs
Intern 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 2 $50k $50k
Highest paying role UX Design Intern $50k
Normalized to USD per year

People

Steve Sonnenberg
Executive Officer, Director
Josh Bushnell
Executive Officer, Director
Michael Sonnenberg
Executive Officer, Director
Tanner Runia
Executive Officer, Director
Paul Kwan
Director
Dave Decker
Director
Nari Ansari
Director
Adam Gassin
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
29/100
Slowing
Open positions
6
1 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
1320 days
faster than 3% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
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.
Marketing
33% ▲
Sales
33% ▲
Enterprise Apps
33% ▼

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Lindon
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Orem United States
HQ
Lindon United States
Sales office
Lindon, UT 84042
7 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 43% engineering 50-200 est. staff $50k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, QA, Design
Lindon, UT 84042
seen since Sep 2021 careers board, company site, job postings
London United Kingdom
Regional office
info[at]awardco.com
No. 1 Royal Exchange Avenue, London, EC3V 3LT
careers board, company site
Saint George United States
Regional office
Saint George
careers board

Jobs

$50k per year • In office • Internship • Lindon
JavaScript
SQL
Agile
QA
Selenium
Cucumber
Cypress
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≈ $126k – $255k per year (Estimated) • In office • 8+ years exp • Lindon
Apex
MuleSoft
Databases
Snowflake
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
dbt
LLM
Agentic Workflows
Tool Use
Apply
$40k – $50k per year • In office • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • Lindon
Claude
Claude Code
Design
Figma
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$235.2M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2025 $165M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $65.2M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $5M Details