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Connections
News
Technologies
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Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
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Funding and backers

Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
6
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Speedinvest
Momentum
13/100
hiring for its size
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
Feb 26, 2024 On the Hacker News front page Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU · 250 points 2023 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.53%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 250 points
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How Firsty hires

Truth index
A 90/100
Median time to fill
62 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
20%
Reposted roles
0%

Firsty scores A 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, 20% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 62 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

Overview

Firsty offers global mobile data through an eSIM app, including a free basic tier funded by advertising. Travellers get connectivity in dozens of countries without buying local SIM cards. The company is headquartered in Amsterdam.

Connections

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Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors1
SpeedinvestVia a fund
286 portfolio companies: Motherduck, 9amHealth Inc, +Simple and 283 more

News

News MobileSyrup 1 year ago
Firsty ad-supported free eSIM network comes to Canada
Firsty is an ad-supported eSIM network that allows you to download and use an eSIM for free.
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News Markets Insider 2 years ago
Firsty wants to eradicate high data roaming bills. It just raised $1.2 million with this 13-slide pitch deck.
The Dutch startup, founded by a pair of former Adyen execs, uses eSim tech to simplify mobile internet access while travelling.
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News The Bookseller 5 years ago
Brockman revels in success of Firsty's lockdown pivot as Glassbox takes root
The founder and c.e.o. of the Firsty Group Darin Brockman has reaped the benefits of having a broad portfolio in lockdown, launching a new consumer-facing e-book and audiobook app and helping publishers break beyond Amazon's clutches
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News GQ 14 years ago
Paul Ryan's Secret Advantage: Being a Firsty-Firsty
For centuries now, a strange breed has walked quietly among us: the firsty-firsty, that guy whose last name is actually a first name. You know, like popster George Michael, or pitcher Tommy John and...
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Firsty over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
25
Postings analysed
18
Stack modernity
87/100AI adopter
Languages
JavaScript56%
Node JS50%
Java39%
TypeScript11%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js11%
Next.js6%
Vue.js6%
Databases
PostgreSQL11%
Amazon Redshift6%
Google BigQuery6%
Snowflake6%
Cloud & platforms
Firebase33%
GCP11%
Figma6%
AWS6%
AI & ML
Claude39%
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Full Firsty tech stack 25 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$58k
Typical range
$56k – $101k
Open positions
3
1 Jobs
Intern 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 1 $56k $56k
Highest paying role Full-Stack Software Engineer (Growth) $101k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
36/100
Slowing
Open positions
13
1 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
78 days
faster than 16% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~10 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.
Backend
42% ▼
Early Careers
37% ▼
Sales
11% ▲
Data Science
5% ▼
Marketing
5% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Figma to stack Oct 2026
Added Adobe Photoshop to stack Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Amsterdam
Amsterdam Netherlands
HQ
6 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 17% engineering 50-200 est. staff $79k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Backend, Design
seen since Jun 2025 job postings

Jobs

$47k – $101k per year (gross) · In office · Amsterdam
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Claude Code
AI Agents
Frontend
Vue.js
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
GCP
CI/CD
Design
Figma
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In office · Internship · Amsterdam
Figma
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