First Resonance
Manufacturing & Industrial Software
$30Mtotal raised · 3 rounds on record
10open roles
$190kmedian advertised pay
$12.5Mlatest round · Venture round · Dec 2024 · 22 mo ago
Overview
Transform your productivity, efficiency & scalability through the MES manufacturing software from First Resonance!
How First Resonance hires
Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
143 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
First Resonance scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 11 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 143 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
Funding and backers
Total raised
$30M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$12.5M
Venture round · Dec 2024 · 22 mo ago
Team
29
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +12% in a year
Hiring now
11
open roles
Backers
4
Blue Bear Capital, Craft Ventures
The money's age
Due for its next round
22 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
Dec 25, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $12.5M · led by Third Prime · Pulse 2.0
Dec 9, 2021
Raised a round Series A $14M
Feb 24, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $3.5M
Sep 23, 2020
Launched First Resonance Launches Next-Generation Manufacturing Software (LA Startups) September 23, 2020 · lastartups.com
2019
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Dec 2024 | $12.5M | Third Prime lead | Pulse 2.0 |
| Series A | Dec 2021 | $14M | — | venturebeat.com |
| Venture round | Feb 2021 | $3.5M | — | dot.la |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | First Resonance, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Neal SarrafExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Karan TalatiExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$190k
Typical range
$170k – $350k
Open positions
11
6
Jobs
Middle
16.7%
Senior
66.7%
Staff
16.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $175k | $175k |
| Senior | 4 | $190k | $190k – $350k |
| Staff | 1 | $220k | $220k |
Highest paying role
Senior Account Executive
$350k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at First Resonance
By role, level and city, against the market · 11 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
41/100
Stable
Open positions
11
0 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
140 days
faster than 8% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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.
Solutions
83% ▲
Product
17% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Columbus
Oct 2026
Added dbt to stack
Oct 2026
Added Dagster to stack
Oct 2026
Added Apache Kafka to stack
Oct 2026
Added Apex to stack
Oct 2026
Added SolidWorks to stack
Oct 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Oct 2026
Added MuleSoft to stack
Oct 2026
Added Informatica to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Providence
Sep 2026
New location: United States
Sep 2026
Added UML to stack
Sep 2026
People
Neal Sarraf
Executive Officer, Director
Karan Talati
Executive Officer, Director
Blake Vaughn
Director
Eric Manlunas
Director
Michael Tam
Director
Vaughn Blake
Director
Michael Kim
Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at First Resonance over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
39
Postings analysed
15
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Python73%
TypeScript60%
JavaScript20%
SQL13%
Frameworks & libraries
Jest7%
Next.js7%
Pytest7%
React.js7%
Databases
PostgreSQL7%
Cloud & platforms
AWS27%
Amazon EC27%
Amazon ECS7%
Amazon EKS7%
AI & ML
Claude7%
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Blue Bear CapitalVia a fund
Craft VenturesVia a fund
Fika VenturesVia a fund
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News
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E5: Karan Talati: SpaceX engineer to raising $30 million for First Resonance
Karan is the Co-founder and CEO of First Resonance, (building the next-generation manufacturing software platform for modern manufacturers)
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First Look at First Resonance
ION, by First Resonance, ties manufacturing together with a factory operating system for the modern factory
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First Resonance: Digital Manufacturing Solutions Company Raises $12.5 Million
First Resonance - a leader in digital manufacturing solutions - announced the closing of its latest funding round, led by Third Prime, with support from Craft Ventures, Blue Bear Capital, and E12. This round, which brings the total funding raised to $32 m
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Manage, Monitor and Synchronize the Entire Hardware Build
Learn how manufacturing software platforms aim to solve an age-old complaint of misalignment between design engineering and manufacturing operators.
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Emerson Ventures Invests in First Resonance
Strategic investment from Emerson's corporate venture capital arm supports First Resonance's ION Factory Operating System
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Former SpaceX Engineer's Platform for Makers of EV, Rockets and Air Taxis Raises $14M
First Resonance raised a $14 million Series A to build out its flagship platform, ION.
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First Resonance Raises $14M Series A, Plans to Triple Its Headcount Built In Los Angeles
First Resonance offers a number of workflow products that help manufacturing operators improve supply chain efficiency. The company's ION manufacturing software was created to help engineers collaborate with factory operators and speed up their decision-m
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
3
Countries
1
Busiest office
Los Angeles
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El Segundo
United States
HQ
Address:
2030 E Maple Ave, Suite 400, El Segundo, CA 90245
Los Angeles
United States
Plant / site
8 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 50-200 est. staff $210k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions, AI/ML, Backend
Providence
United States
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $175k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions
Columbus
United States
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $170k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions
Earlier presence
San Francisco, United States
Austin, United States