Emesent
emesent.com
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$44.5M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$17M
Venture round · Jul 2026 · 3 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
10
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Archangel Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
3 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
47/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
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
Jul 8
Raised a round Venture round $17M · sUAS News
Jul 2
Raised a round Venture round $25M · Inspirepreneur Magazine
Nov 5, 2018
Raised a round Venture round $2.5M · TechCrunch
2018
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jul 2026 | $17M | — | sUAS News |
| Venture round | Jul 2026 | $25M | — | Inspirepreneur Magazine |
| Venture round | Nov 2018 | $2.5M | — | TechCrunch |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Emesent Pty Ltd | its site |
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How Emesent hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Emesent 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, 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
News
Emesent secures $2M grant to develop GPS-denied autonomy
Emesent has been awarded a $2 million (USD) grant from the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres Projects
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Emesent Secures $2M Grant to Develop GPS-Denied Autonomy Open Platform Cortex AI
August 12, 2026 -Emesent, an autonomous mapping and robotics company, has been awarded a $2 million (USD) grant from the Australian Government's
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Emesent Secures $2M Grant to Develop GPS-Denied Autonomy Open Platform Cortex AI
Emesent Secures $2M Grant to Develop GPS-Denied Autonomy Open Platform Cortex AI
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Emesent wins government backing for open, modular autonomy platform for GPS-denied environments
A working prototype of Cortex AI has already been deployed with more than a dozen early adopter organisations across defence, mining and the built environment
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Emesent Raises $17M for AI-Powered Mapping Robotics
Australian firm Emesent raised $17M for AI-powered autonomous mapping. See why, plus more AI news. Join 2,000+ pros reading AI Business Weekly.
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Emesent lands US$17M in new funding for AI-powered mapping and robotics
To speed up work on its AI autonomy platform, grow its Aura cloud software and expand across mining, defence, and architecture, engineering and constr...
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Emesent lands US$17M in new funding for AI-powered mapping and robotics
To speed up work on its AI autonomy platform, grow its Aura cloud software and expand across mining, defence, and architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), Emesent has announced US$17 million in new funding. The money will go towards growing...
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Emesent secures $17M to boost autonomous intelligence platform
Capital will be deployed to scale manufacturing at Emesent's Queensland facility and to advance Cortex AI, the company's onboard autonomy intelligence, and Aura, its cloud-based platform for 3D data processing, visualization and analytics.
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Emesent secures $17 million to accelerate autonomous intelligence platform
Emesent has secured $17 million to expand its Cortex AI autonomy platform, Aura cloud software and manufacturing for mining, defense and AEC.
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Emesent Expands Manufacturing of Autonomous Mapping Systems
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. - Emesent plans to expand manufacturing of its autonomous mapping systems after securing $17 million in new funding to increase production capacity and accelerate development of AI-powered robotics technology.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Emesent over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
39
Postings analysed
9
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
Python
C++
Bash
PowerShell
Frameworks & libraries
ROS2
ROS
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Linux
GitHub
Active Directory
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Full Emesent tech stack
39 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
70/100
Growing
Open positions
10
3 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
36 days
faster than 35% 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.
Backend
33%
DevOps
11% ▲
Leadership
11% ▲
Product
11% ▼
Administrative
11% ▲
Finance
11% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Slack to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Oct 2026
Added TypeScript to stack
Oct 2026
Added Agile to stack
Oct 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack
Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack
Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Service Desk to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Added DHCP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Active Directory to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Brisbane
Brisbane
Australia
HQ
10 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, Administrative, Field & Service
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PowerShell
Bash
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Ubuntu
HPC
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DNS
DHCP
VPN
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Cybersecurity
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