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Connections
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$15M
1 round on record
Latest round
$15M
Venture round · Oct 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
open roles
Backers
1
RA Capital Management
The money's age
Due for its next round
24 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 29, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $15M · SEC Form D 2024 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Oct 2024 $15M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Familiar Machines & Magic Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Colin AngleExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Visa sponsorship

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H-1B filings in 12 months
$213k
Median offered salary
2
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Computer and information research scientists
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The salary offered for each occupationVisa pass · 90 credits
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Overview

Familiar Machines & Magic is a robotics and AI company building a physical AI platform for human connection, centred on physically embodied AI companions called Familiars. The company was founded by industry veterans from iRobot, Outrider and Amazon and hires designers, content creators and program managers. The company is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, United States.

Connections

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Shared investors1
222 portfolio companies: Verdiva Bio, PLEASE READ THIS AG, Vivace Therapeutics and 219 more

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Familiar Machines & Magic over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
6
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
67/100
Cloud & platforms
Figma
Developer tools
Adobe Photoshop
Canva
Practices & domains
Physical AI
Machine Learning
Embodied AI
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$213k
Typical range
$210k – $215k
Open positions
2
2 Jobs
Principal 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Principal 2 $213k $210k – $215k
Highest paying role Principal Technical Program Manager, Software Robotics $215k
Normalized to USD per year

People

Colin Angle
Executive Officer, Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
35/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
112 days
faster than 10% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
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.
Product
50% ▼
Design
50% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: United States Sep 2026
New location: Los Angeles Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Boston
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Woburn United States
HQ
Boston United States
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $213k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Design
600 Unicorn Park Drive
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Los Angeles United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $210k Avg Salary
hires for Design
seen since Sep 2026 job postings

Jobs

$180k – $210k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · Los Angeles · Boston
Physical AI
Embodied AI
Machine Learning
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$175k – $215k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · Boston
Physical AI
Embodied AI
Machine Learning
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Financials

Total raised
$15M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $15M Details