Empirical Security
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$36.9M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$25M
Series A · Jul 2026 · 3 mo ago
Team
20
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
6
+1 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Fresh money
3 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
27/100
hiring for its size, 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
Aug 3
Board appointment Stephen Ward, Director · SEC Form D
Jul 21
Raised a round Series A $25M · Pulse 2.0
Aug 23, 2024
Raised a round Seed $11.9M · SEC Form D
2024
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 3%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Jul 2026 | $25M | — | Pulse 2.0 |
| Seed | Aug 2024 | $11.9M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Empirical Security, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Jason JacobsExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Edward BellisExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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How Empirical Security hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Empirical Security scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 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
Empirical Security raises $25M to predict your next breach
Empirical Security raised a $25M Series A to predict which vulnerabilities attackers will actually exploit, from the founders of Kenna Security and EPSS.
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Empirical Security Raises $25 Million Series A To Expand Predictive Exposure Management Platform
Empirical Security has raised $25 million in Series A funding to expand its predictive cybersecurity platform for exposure and vulnerability management. Brightmind Partners led the round, bringing the company's total funding to $37 million following earli
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The Vulnerability Identity Crisis
Art Manion and I have been spending roughly an hour a week for the past couple of years working through what sounds like a simple question: What are the minimum viable elements needed to define and identify a vulnerability?
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Empirical Security: $12 Million Secured For Cybersecurity Intelligence Platform
Empirical Security, a cybersecurity company specializing in custom AI models, has raised $12 million in seed funding led by Costanoa Ventures, with contributions from DNX Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, HPA, and strategic investors like Jonathan Cran, Wad
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Empirical Security raises $12M to build custom AI models for enterprise cyber defense
Empirical Security raises $12M to build custom AI models for enterprise cyber defense - SiliconANGLE
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Empirical Security Raises $12M to Stop Attacks with Custom Cybersecurity AI Models
Empirical Security, the cybersecurity company enabling organizations with Custom AI models, today announced $12 million in seed funding. The round was led by Costanoa Ventures with participation from DNX Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, HPA, and strategic
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Empirical Security over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
18
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
74/100
Languages
SQL
Python
Ruby
Frameworks & libraries
Ruby on Rails
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
Qualys Cloud Platform
AWS
Azure
GCP
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Full Empirical Security tech stack
18 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
People
Jason Jacobs
Executive Officer
Edward Bellis
Executive Officer, Director
John Cowgill
Director
Michael Roytman
Director
Stephen Ward
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
61/100
Growing
Open positions
6
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 21% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
10/28/2026
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.
Data Science
50% ▼
Backend
50% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Ruby to stack
Oct 2026
Added Ruby on Rails to stack
Oct 2026
Added PostgreSQL to stack
Oct 2026
Added MySQL to stack
Oct 2026
Added GCP to stack
Oct 2026
Added Fine-tuning to stack
Oct 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack
Oct 2026
Added CI/CD to stack
Oct 2026
Added Azure to stack
Oct 2026
Added AWS to stack
Oct 2026
Added ITSM to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Chicago
United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff
Jobs
$155k – $225k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · United States
Python
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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≈ $88k – $196k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · United States
Python
SQL
Red Teaming
Cybersecurity
Qualys Cloud Platform
CVE
CVSS
EPSS
KEV
Management
Jira
ServiceNow
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≈ $101k – $220k per year (Estimated) · Remote (United States) · Full-Time
Python
SQL
Git
IAM
Management
ITSM
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