Element451
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$9.9M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$2M
Venture round · Oct 2023 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
5
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Cofounders Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
35 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
39/100
hiring for its size, 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
Feb 4
New executive Element451 Appoints James Novak as CEO, Expands Executive Team to Support Continued Growth · marketwatch.com
Feb 24, 2025
New executive Element451 Welcomes Trey Boyer as Chief Sales Officer to Drive Next Phase of Growth · PRNewswire
Nov 6, 2023
Acquisition Element451 Acquires Enrollify: Setting the New Standard for Education and Professional Development in Higher Ed Marketing · PRNewswire
Oct 20, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $2M · SEC Form D
Oct 5, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $3.5M · SEC Form D
Apr 15, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $3.4M · SEC Form D
Oct 3, 2019
Raised a round Venture round $1M · SEC Form D
2018
Founded
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Web presence
top 0.3%
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Oct 2023 | $2M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Oct 2022 | $3.5M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Apr 2021 | $3.4M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Oct 2019 | $1M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Element451, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Ardis KadiuExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Ron TadrossExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
JeanCarlo BonillaDirectorSEC Form D
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News
Element451 Powers Smarter Student Data With NVIDIA Nemotron
Element451, the AI platform built for higher education, today announced a new collaboration with NVIDIA to source and tune AI models built for higher education
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Element451 Appoints James Novak as CEO, Expands Executive Team to Support Continued Growth
Element451, an AI-driven customer relationship management (CRM) platform built for higher education, today announced the appointment of James Novak as Chief Executive Officer. Novak joins the company as Element451 continues to focus on scaling its team, s
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Element451 Appoints James Novak as CEO, Expands Executive Team to Support Continued Growth
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Element451 Welcomes Trey Boyer as Chief Sales Officer to Drive Next Phase of Growth
/PRNewswire/ -- Element451, the AI-first student engagement and success CRM, is excited to announce the appointment of Trey Boyer as chief sales officer. This...
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Element451: AI-Based Student Engagement Platform Company Raises $175 Million
Element451, a leading AI-based student engagement platform transforming higher education recruitment and retention, announced a strategic investment from PSG. The funding aims to position the company to meet the growing demand for AI-based student engagem
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Education software startup Element451 raises $175M in funding
Education software startup Element451 raises $175M in funding - SiliconANGLE
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Element451 Launches AI Chatbot for College Websites
CRM software provider Element451 recently launched an AI-powered chatbot designed to help students navigate college websites.
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Element451 Acquires Enrollify: Setting the New Standard for Education and Professional Development in Higher Ed Marketing
/PRNewswire/ -- Element451, the all-in-one, intelligent student engagement platform for higher education, proudly announces its acquisition of Enrollify,...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Element451 over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
35
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
86/100AI adopter
Languages
Node JS
PHP
TypeScript
JavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
Laravel
Nest.JS
Angular
Playwright
Cloud & platforms
AWS
OpenAI
AWS Fargate
AWS Lambda
AI & ML
LLM
ChatGPT
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People
Ardis Kadiu
Executive Officer, Director
Ron Tadross
Executive Officer
JeanCarlo Bonilla
Director
David Gardner
Director
Clifford Holekamp
Director
Bobby Ocampo
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
80/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
5
3 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
41 days
faster than 32% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
10/16/2026
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.
Marketing
18% ▼
Sales
18% ▲
Solutions
18% ▼
Backend
9% ▼
Hardware
9% ▼
Finance
9% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added GDPR to stack
Oct 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Added ChatGPT to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tool Use to stack
Sep 2026
Added Human-in-the-Loop to stack
Sep 2026
Added Function Calling to stack
Sep 2026
Added Angular to stack
Sep 2026
Added OpenAI Codex to stack
Aug 2026
Added OpenAI to stack
Aug 2026
Added Zapier to stack
Aug 2026
Added Make.com to stack
Aug 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Raleigh
Raleigh
United States
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Finance
Jobs
≈ $90k – $183k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp
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