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People
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Funding and backers

Latest round
Series C
Jul 2025 · 15 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
22
+1 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Due for its next round
15 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
12/100
hiring for its size, a new city
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
Aug 12 First role in Malaysia Frontend Software Engineer II (Malaysia Based) Jun 8 First sales or marketing role Employee Benefit, Sales Support Specialist (Malaysia / Hong Kong) Jul 18, 2025 Raised a round Series C · The Manila Times 2018 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series C Jul 2025 — — The Manila Times
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How Bowtie hires

Truth index
C 56/100
Ghost roles
73%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Bowtie scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 22 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 73% look like ghost listings, 0% 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

Overview

Bowtie is Hong Kong's first virtual insurer, licensed in 2018. It sells medical and life cover online without agents and runs its own underwriting technology. The company also operates health clinics for members.

News

News assistedeverything.substack.com 4 months ago
How much AI should your team actually use: introducing The AI Bowtie
A simple framework for managers who want their teams to move fast without going stupid.
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Press release The Manila Times 1 year ago
Bowtie Secures Series C Fundraising From Sun Life
New Funding Fuels Growth in Medical Insurance and Innovation in Preventive Healthcare
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News bowtie.security 1 year ago
Turning Business Logic Errors into Compile-time Errors Bowtie Blog
Learn how to eliminate business logic bugs by turning them into compile-time errors using Rust's type system. This post shows how features like Option,
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News SCMPNews 5 years ago
'Latte with your life cover?' Virtual insurer opens coffee shop in Hong Kong
Bowtie Life Insurance opens Bow Coffee in Wan Chai, a physical venue where customers can enjoy refreshments while learning about policies and raising queries.
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News The Drive 7 years ago
Chevy Corvette C8.R: The Bowtie's New Le Mans Contender Makes Surprise Debut
It was believed Chevrolet's new endurance racer would debut at next weekend's Petit Le Mans race.
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News juliantalbot 8 years ago
Risk Bow-Tie Method
Bow-Tie method is a structured approach to risk identification and management. It focuses on causal chains between sources, controls, events, post-event contro
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Chevrolet Bowtie: The Evolution GM Authority
The Chevrolet Bowtie logo has been around for over 100 years. See how it has evolved since its inception in 1913.
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News Petri Dish Talk 14 years ago
Exome Sequence Assembly Utilizing Bowtie & Samtools
At the end of all the wet chemistry for a genome sequencing project we are left with the raw data in the form of fastq files. The following post documents the processing of said raw files to assemb…
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Bowtie over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
34
Postings analysed
10
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
Python50%
SQL40%
TypeScript40%
JavaScript20%
Frameworks & libraries
Django30%
Dagster20%
React.js20%
Angular10%
Databases
PostgreSQL10%
Cloud & platforms
AWS50%
Looker20%
Power BI20%
Prefect20%
AI & ML
ChatGPT10%
LLM10%
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Full Bowtie tech stack 34 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
38/100
Slowing
Open positions
22
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
189 days
faster than 7% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~1 days
10/25/2026
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% ▲
Frontend
17% ▼
Security
17% ▼
Communications
17% ▲
Customer Success
17% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Malaysia Oct 2026
Added CircleCI to stack Oct 2026
Added Semrush to stack Sep 2026
Added Screaming Frog to stack Sep 2026
Added Perplexity to stack Sep 2026
Added LLM to stack Sep 2026
Added ChatGPT to stack Sep 2026
Added Ahrefs to stack Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack Sep 2026
Added DLP to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Hong Kong
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Hong Kong Hong Kong
HQ
22 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 23% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Early Careers, Data Science
opened 2021 seen since Jul 2024 company site, job postings
Wan Chai Hong Kong
Regional office
G/F, Bowtie Life Insurance Tower, 68 Johnston Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, HK
company site

Jobs

In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Hong Kong
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
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≈ HK$29k – HK$80k per month (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Hong Kong
SQL
Dagster
dbt
Prefect
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
Analytics
Tableau
Power BI
ETL/ELT
Looker
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≈ HK$29k – HK$77k per month (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Hong Kong
SQL
Dagster
dbt
Prefect
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
Analytics
Tableau
Power BI
ETL/ELT
Metabase
Looker
Apply
In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Hong Kong • Malaysia
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Django
Frontend
Vue.js
Angular
React.js
DevOps
AWS
Management
Basecamp
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In office • Full-Time • Hong Kong
Python
TypeScript
AWS
Cloudflare
IAM
Cybersecurity
NIST CSF
Zero Trust
SIEM
DLP
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≈ HK$57k – HK$139k per month (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Hong Kong
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Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Hong Kong
Python
Go
Java
TypeScript
SQL
C#
Django
Django REST Framework
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
Rest API
AWS
Management
Basecamp
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≈ HK$46k – HK$101k per month (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Hong Kong
SQL
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Financials

Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series C 2025 — Details