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Funding and backers

Total raised
$38.6M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$35M
Series A · Dec 2025 · 10 mo ago
Team
25
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +317% in a year
Hiring now
40
+10 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
8VC, Primary Venture Partners
The money's age
Fresh money
10 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
45/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
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 22 Launched Bobyard Launches AI Takeoff and Estimating for Commercial Plumbing Contractors · manilatimes.net Apr 8 Launched Bobyard Launches Bobyard 2.0, Delivering Faster Takeoffs, a Consolidated AI Workbench, and a Platform Built to Scale Across Trades · 01net.it 2025 Team of 25 was 6 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Dec 10, 2025 Raised a round Series A $35M Dec 1, 2023 Raised a round Venture round $3.6M · SEC Form D 2023 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series A Dec 2025 $35M — businesswire.com
Venture round Dec 2023 $3.6M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Bobyard, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Michael DingExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How Bobyard hires

Truth index
B 77/100
Median time to fill
42 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
93%
Reposted roles
0%

Bobyard scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 15 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 93% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 42 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

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 5

Visa details by country

Overview

Bobyard is a construction technology startup based in San Francisco that builds AI takeoff and estimating software, using computer vision and language models trained on construction drawings to measure and count materials for bids. Backed by Primary, Pear and 8VC, it serves landscaping, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, finishes and paving contractors, with an in-house research team building trade-specific models and a new sales push in the UK. It hires account executives, sales development representatives, sales engineers, forward deployed and frontend engineers, product managers and designers, data analysts, recruiters and operations managers.

News

News markets.businessinsider.com 3 months ago
Bobyard Launches AI Takeoff and Estimating for Commercial Plumbing Contractors
SAN FRANCISCO, July 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bobyard, the AI-native takeoff and estimating platform built for construction trades, today ann...
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News YahooFinance 4 months ago
Bobyard Expands Into Electrical With New Product for Contractors
SAN FRANCISCO, June 03, 2026--Bobyard, the AI-native takeoff and estimating platform built for construction trades, today announced the launch of Bobyard Electrical Takeoff, expanding the company's platform into electrical estimating workflows for the fir
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News Pulse 2.0 10 months ago
Bobyard Raises $35 Million Series A To Expand AI-Driven Construction Estimating Platform
Bobyard, an artificial intelligence platform focused on transforming how contractors perform construction takeoffs and estimates, has raised $35 million in a Series A financing round led by 8VC. Additional participants in the round include Pear VC, Primar
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Bobyard over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
23
Postings analysed
35
Stack modernity
77/100AI adopter
Languages
Python20%
JavaScript14%
SQL11%
TypeScript3%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js14%
Django11%
PyTorch3%
Databases
PostgreSQL11%
Google BigQuery3%
Cloud & platforms
GCP14%
AWS11%
Figma9%
GitHub6%
AI & ML
LLM6%
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Full Bobyard tech stack 23 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$143k
Typical range
$60k – $300k
Open positions
40
19 Jobs
Intern 5.3%
Junior 21.1%
Middle 26.3%
Senior 31.6%
Staff 15.8%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 1 $110k $110k
Junior 4 $92k $60k – $130k
Middle 5 $155k $140k – $300k
Senior 6 $170k $140k – $195k
Staff 3 $190k $120k – $190k
Highest paying role Enterprise Account Executive $300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Bobyard By role, level and city, against the market · 40 jobs with pay

People

Michael Ding
Executive Officer, Director
Joe Lonsdale
Director
Jason Shuman
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data

Growth

Hiring Momentum
42/100
Stable
Open positions
40
6 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
41 days
faster than 32% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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.
Sales
30% ▲
Management
10% ▼
Marketing
10% ▲
Solutions
10% ▼
AI/ML
7% ▲
Product
7% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added GDPR to stack Oct 2026
Added Human-in-the-Loop to stack Oct 2026
Added Slack to stack Oct 2026
Added PyTorch to stack Oct 2026
Added Stripe to stack Oct 2026
Added A/B Testing to stack Sep 2026
Added Edge AI to stack Sep 2026
Added SOC 2 to stack Sep 2026
Added Google BigQuery to stack Sep 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack Sep 2026
Added dbt to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco United States
HQ
36 open roles 26 posted in 90 days 17% engineering 50-200 est. staff $156k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Product, Backend
seen since Nov 2025 job postings

Jobs

$170k – $190k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
Django
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Computer Vision
NLP
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
GCP
AWS
Apply
$93k – $120k per year • Remote (United Kingdom, UK time hours) • Full-Time
Computer Vision
NLP
Apply
$40k – $70k per year • Remote (United States, PT hours) • Contractor
Computer Vision
NLP
CVAT
Apply
$110k per year • In office • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Python
Computer Vision
PyTorch
OCR
Apply
$170k – $190k per year • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Computer Vision
NLP
Apply
$85k – $100k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Apply
$100k – $125k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Apply
$130k – $160k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
React.js
Apply
$140k – $160k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Linear
Jira
Apply
$160k – $180k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
Computer Vision
NLP
LLM
Scale AI
Design
Figma
Apply
$130k – $165k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
Django
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
GCP
AWS
Apply
$140k – $170k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Computer Vision
NLP
Design
Figma
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$38.6M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2025 $35M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 $3.6M Details