Collective
Accounting & Bookkeeping Services
$84.5Mtotal raised · 3 rounds on record
21open roles
$160kmedian advertised pay
$50Mlatest round · Venture round · Jul 2023 · 3 yr ago
Overview
Collective is a back office for self-employed business owners, combining company formation, bookkeeping, payroll and tax filing in one subscription. It focuses on freelancers profitable enough to benefit from an S corporation but too small for a traditional accounting firm. Members get a dedicated advisor alongside the software.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 21 open roles at Collective. Collective is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. It was founded in 2018. It has raised $84.5M in 3 funding rounds. The latest round is Venture - Series Unknown of $50M, announced in 2023. The median pay stated in its open roles is $160k, across 21 postings that state pay.
- Open roles
- 21Its careers board, read on Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Founded
- 2018Alion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Employees
- 200+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Total raised
- $84.5MSum of 3 equity rounds Alion knows
- Latest round
- Venture - Series Unknown · $50M · Jul 11, 2023Press report · techcrunch.com
- Median advertised pay
- $160kPay stated in 21 open postings
- Technologies in its job postings
- 42Named in its job postings
Official records
How Collective hires
Truth index
B 81/100
Median time to fill
55 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
75%
Reposted roles
0%
Collective scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 75% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 55 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
Funding and backers
Total raised
$84.5M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$50M
Venture round · Jul 2023 · 3 yr ago
Team
1
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -98% in a year
Hiring now
21
+6 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Expa, Ardent Venture Partners
The money's age
Long since its last round
40 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
36/100
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
2025
Team shrank to 1 was 64 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Jul 11, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $50M · TechCrunch
May 11, 2021
Raised a round Series A $20M
Jan 3, 2018
Raised a round Venture round $14.5M · SEC Form D
2018
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.03%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jul 2023 | $50M | — | TechCrunch |
| Series A | May 2021 | $20M | — | businesswire.com |
| Venture round | Jan 2018 | $14.5M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | COLLECTIVE INC | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Michelle NathanExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Kerry BianchiExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$160k
Typical range
$40k – $300k
Open positions
21
19
Jobs
Junior
31.6%
Middle
10.5%
Senior
15.8%
Staff
31.6%
Architect
10.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 6 | $63k | $50k – $160k |
| Middle | 2 | $98k | $96k – $100k |
| Senior | 3 | $230k | $85k – $230k |
| Staff | 6 | $250k | $200k – $260k |
| Architect | 2 | $270k | $240k – $300k |
Highest paying role
Director, Product Counsel
$300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Collective
By role, level and city, against the market · 21 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
68/100
Growing
Open positions
21
4 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
52 days
faster than 26% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 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.
Finance
30% ▲
Data Science
9%
Product
9%
HR
9% ▼
Legal
9% ▲
DevOps
4% ▼
Actively hiring for Finance (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Stripe to stack
Nov 2026
New location: Cairo
Oct 2026
Added Tableau to stack
Oct 2026
Added Power BI to stack
Oct 2026
Added QuickBooks to stack
Oct 2026
Added Fivetran to stack
Sep 2026
Added Dimensional Modeling to stack
Sep 2026
Added Dagster to stack
Sep 2026
Added Apache Kafka to stack
Sep 2026
Added Edge AI to stack
Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
People
Michelle Nathan
Executive Officer
Kerry Bianchi
Executive Officer, Director
Duncan O'Brien
Director
Geoff Judge
Director
Ian Sigalow
Director
Robert Carrigan
Director
Christopher Young
Director
Joseph Apprendi
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
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Collective over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
42
Postings analysed
16
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python50%
SQL31%
JavaScript6%
TypeScript6%
Frameworks & libraries
Django19%
Dagster6%
React.js6%
Databases
Google BigQuery31%
OpenSearch6%
Cloud & platforms
Metabase25%
AWS13%
GCP13%
Datadog13%
AI & ML
Claude19%
LLM19%
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Connections
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Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors
Ardent Venture PartnersVia a fund
SempervirensVia a fund
ExpaVia a fund
QED InvestorsVia a fund
General CatalystVia a fund
610 portfolio companies
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Owner
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Same group
Likely
Shared investors
News
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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
15 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 27% engineering 200-500 est. staff $193k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Product, Data Science
Earlier presence
Cairo, Egypt
How to cite this page
Alion, "Collective: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/collective
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