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Total raised
$26.4M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$10.4M
Pre-Seed · Oct 2026 · this month
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
26
+24 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Fresh money
0 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
82/100
hiring for its size, a new city, 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
Oct 1
Raised a round Pre-Seed $10.4M · Tech.eu
Mar 25, 2024
Raised a round Seed $8M · Venturebeat
Aug 17, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $8M · SEC Form D
2022
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Seed | Oct 2026 | $10.4M | — | Tech.eu |
| Seed | Mar 2024 | $8M | — | Venturebeat |
| Venture round | Aug 2022 | $8M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Foundational Data, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Alon NaftaExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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Overview
Foundational analyses data pipeline code to catch breaking changes and governance problems before they are merged. It maps column-level lineage across warehouses and transformation code so an engineer sees what a change will affect. The product is aimed at teams whose data models have outgrown manual review.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Foundational over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
44
Postings analysed
12
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
Python58%
C++17%
Bash8%
Go8%
Frameworks & libraries
NumPy17%
SciPy17%
Angular8%
Astropy8%
Databases
MySQL8%
Cloud & platforms
Linux25%
AWS25%
Kubernetes25%
Azure17%
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People
Alon Nafta
Executive Officer
Omri Eliyahu Ildis
Director
Barak Forgoun
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
81/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
26
24 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
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.
Operations
13% ▲
Industrial Engineering
13% ▲
Administrative
8% ▲
Management
8% ▲
Field & Service
8% ▲
Semiconductors
8% ▲
Actively hiring for Operations (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
London
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26 open roles 24 posted in 90 days 23% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Operations, Backend
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≈ $52k – $93k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • London
Python
CI/CD
AWS
SpaceTech
Orekit
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≈ $76k – $174k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • PhD • London
Python
SciPy
NumPy
Anomaly Detection
Time Series
Machine Learning
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≈ $53k – $125k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • London
Python
Bash
Prometheus
Grafana
Linux
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≈ $57k – $112k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • London
C++
KiCad
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≈ $76k – $188k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • London
Python
Go
Rust
SQL
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Time Series
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
SpaceTech
CCSDS
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≈ $69k – $151k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • London
Terraform
GCP
GitHub Actions
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Linux
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≈ $72k – $177k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • London
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
FastAPI
Databases
MySQL
Frontend
Vue.js
Angular
React.js
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS Lambda
GitLab
Amazon ECS
API Gateway
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