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News
Technologies
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Products
People
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Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$1.2B
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$489.3M
Venture round · Sep 2020 · 6 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
5
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
BoxGroup, Inspired Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
73 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
33/100
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
Sep 24, 2020 New executive G. Mikan, Executive Officer, Director · SEC Form D Sep 9, 2020 Raised a round Venture round $489.3M · SEC Form D Dec 20, 2019 New executive Mike Mikan, Executive Officer, Director · SEC Form D Dec 16, 2019 Raised a round Venture round $423.8M · SEC Form D Nov 30, 2018 Board appointment Adair Newhall, Director · SEC Form D Nov 15, 2018 Raised a round Venture round $200M · SEC Form D Mar 25, 2016 Raised a round Venture round $46.5M · SEC Form D 2015 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 8%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Sep 2020 $489.3M — SEC Form D
Venture round Dec 2019 $423.8M — SEC Form D
Venture round Nov 2018 $200M — SEC Form D
Venture round Mar 2016 $46.5M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Bright Health Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Robert SheehyExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Kyle RolfingExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Tomas ValdiviaExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Mike MikanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Keith NelsenExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
G. MikanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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How Bright hires

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

Bright 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

Overview

BrightAI deploys autonomous AI devices, edge sensors, and foundation models to transform critical infrastructure from reactive to proactive. Maximize asset life and eliminate catastrophic downtime.

News

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News Newsshooter 21 days ago
Bright Tangerine Universal Timecode Mount Review
The Bright Tangerine Universal Timecode Mount, as its name suggests, is a one-stop solution for attaching timecode boxes to a camera, etc. It is good to see
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News gts.cryptography.dog 3 months ago
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I suspect that a lot of people would be very mad about Bright Data ltd. if they knew more about their business practices. I'm honestly kind of surprised that their behaviour is even legal in places like the EU.They basically act as an intermediary between
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News Layer3 Intel 3 months ago
Measuring the NetNut takedown: 28% of its IPs are still reachable through Bright Data
The FBI and Google seized NetNut's 33M-IP residential proxy network. We measured what actually disappeared: Bright Data still reaches 28% of its IPs.
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News The Drive 3 months ago
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In the past four years, GM and now Tesla have tried to skirt recalls by arguing that illegally bright headlights are "inconsequential" to safety. The people don't agree.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Bright over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
63
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
C++
Bash
Frameworks & libraries
OpenCV
PyTorch
PyTorch C++
ROS
Cloud & platforms
Linux
RTOS
AWS
Azure
AI & ML
Gaussian Splatting
LLM
LoRA
PEFT
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Full Bright tech stack 63 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

People

Robert Sheehy
Executive Officer, Director
Kyle Rolfing
Executive Officer, Director
Tomas Valdivia
Executive Officer
Mike Mikan
Executive Officer, Director
Keith Nelsen
Executive Officer
G. Mikan
Executive Officer, Director
Cathy Smith
Executive Officer
Mohamad Makhzoumi
Director
Stephen Kraus
Director
Andy Slavitt
Director
Adair Newhall
Director
Steve Kraus
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
62/100
Growing
Open positions
5
0 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
123 days
faster than 12% 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.
AI/ML
50% ▼
Hardware
50% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Minneapolis Oct 2026
Added Ubuntu to stack Oct 2026
Added Wireshark to stack Oct 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack Oct 2026
Added Rest API to stack Oct 2026
Added Protobuf to stack Oct 2026
Added LoRaWAN to stack Oct 2026
Added GitLab CI to stack Oct 2026
Added GCP to stack Oct 2026
Added CoAP to stack Oct 2026
New location: San Francisco Sep 2026
Added Zigbee to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
8
Hiring now
3
Countries
3
Busiest office
Palo Alto
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Palo Alto United States
HQ
California
4 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Product, AI/ML, Hardware
1001 Page Mill Road, Building 3, Palo Alto, CA 94304
seen since Aug 2025 company site, job postings
Minneapolis United States
Engineering / R&D
Minneapolis, MN
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Product
seen since Dec 2025 careers board, job postings
San Francisco United States
Engineering / R&D
California
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Hardware
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Beijing China
Regional office
China
careers board
Denver United States
Regional office
Denver, CO
careers board
Tampa United States
Regional office
Tampa, FL
careers board
Saint Louis United States
Regional office
St. Louis, MO
careers board
Florianópolis Brazil
Regional office
Jacksonville, FL
careers board

Jobs

≈ $168k – $303k per year (Estimated) • In office • 10+ years exp • Palo Alto
Python
C++
Protobuf
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
RTOS
GitLab CI
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Linux
Wi-Fi
Cybersecurity
Wireshark
IoT
MQTT
CoAP
LoRaWAN
FreeRTOS
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≈ $183k – $329k per year (Estimated) • In office • 6+ years exp • Palo Alto • Minneapolis
Physical AI
DevOps
Docker
Ubuntu
Linux
Management
Agile
Apply
≈ $170k – $307k per year (Estimated) • In office • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
OpenCV
PyTorch
Physical AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
GitHub Actions
RTOS
CI/CD
Git
Robotics
Sensor Fusion
IoT
Zigbee
FreeRTOS
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≈ $119k – $262k per year (Estimated) • In office • 2+ years exp • Palo Alto
Python
DVC
MLFlow
SHAP
XGBoost
Multimodal AI
LightGBM
ONNX
TFLite
TensorFlow
Keras
PyTorch
Anomaly Detection
Time Series Forecasting
LiteRT
Interpretability
Physical AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Linux
Management
Agile
Apply
≈ $200k – $359k per year (Estimated) • In office • 8+ years exp • Palo Alto
Edge AI
Physical AI
Machine Learning
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$1.2B
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $489.3M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 $423.8M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 $200M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2016 $46.5M Details