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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
+7 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Expa, General Catalyst
The money's age
Long since its last round
39 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
38/100
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
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
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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How Collective hires

Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
106 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Collective scores A 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, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 106 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

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.

News

News nonlineartransform.substack.com 1 month ago
The Collective
Unorthodox Conclusions from the HuggingFace Hack
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News X (formerly Twitter) 2 months ago
Greg Brockman (@gdb) on X
A call for collective action on cyber defense
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News cavallette 2 months ago
DICHIARAZIONE DEL COLLETTIVO A/I SULLE SANZIONI DISPOSTE DAL GOVERNO USA NEI SUOI CONFRONTI - ASTATEMENT BY A/I COLLECTIVEABOUTUS SANCTIONS
ENGLISH VERSION BELOW Oggi abbiamo appreso che il governo degli Stati Uniti ha deciso di inserire un piccolo collettivo di volontari e attivisti digitali italiani nell'elenco delle organizzazioni terroristiche mondiali meritevoli di sanzioni,come si può l
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News Spliit 2 months ago
Spliit's Funding Is Now on Open Collective
Donations to Spliit now go through Open Collective, instead of GitHub Sponsors and a Stripe link. Here is why I moved, what the money is actually used for, and how much running Spliit costs.
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News thesmh.com.au 2 months ago
A warning about BookReach Collective
Someone claiming to be a well-known author referred my uncle to BookReach Collective and a US$5,000 book-marketing proposal.
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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
15
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python47%
SQL27%
JavaScript7%
TypeScript7%
Frameworks & libraries
Django20%
Dagster7%
React.js7%
Databases
Google BigQuery27%
OpenSearch7%
Cloud & platforms
Metabase20%
AWS13%
GCP13%
Datadog13%
AI & ML
Claude13%
LLM13%
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Full Collective tech stack 42 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$195k
Typical range
$50k – $300k
Open positions
20
19 Jobs
Junior 21.1%
Middle 10.5%
Senior 26.3%
Staff 31.6%
Architect 10.5%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 4 $78k $50k – $160k
Middle 2 $98k $96k – $100k
Senior 5 $190k $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 · 20 jobs with pay

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

Growth

Hiring Momentum
73/100
Growing
Open positions
21
6 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
55 days
faster than 25% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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
25% ▼
Product
10% ▲
HR
10% ▼
Management
10% ▼
Data Science
5% ▲
DevOps
5% ▲
Actively hiring for Finance (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
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
Added Wi-Fi to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
16 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 25% engineering $194k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Product, HR
seen since Apr 2026 job postings
Cairo Egypt
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering
hires for Science & Research
seen since Sep 2026 job postings

Jobs

$200k – $250k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · San Francisco
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$175k – $230k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · San Francisco
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$180k – $230k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
SQL
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
AI/ML
Claude Code
Dagster
dbt
LLM
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Datadog
CI/CD
Analytics
Metabase
Fivetran
Dimensional Modeling
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$200k – $250k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · San Francisco
AI Agents
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$200k – $230k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
TypeScript
OpenSearch
Google BigQuery
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Datadog
CI/CD
AWS
Platform Engineering
AWS Fargate
AWS Lambda
Amazon EC2
GitHub
IAM
Amazon ECS
Linux
TCP/IP
DNS
Cybersecurity
Zero Trust
Least Privilege
QA
Sentry
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$195k – $260k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
Django
AI/ML
AI Agents
Tokenization
DevOps
AWS
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$195k – $260k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
Django
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
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Financials

Total raised
$84.5M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 $50M Details
Series A 2021 $20M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 $14.5M Details