Great Sky
AI Chips & Accelerators
$45.3Mtotal raised · 5 rounds on record
1open role
$25.9Mlatest round · Venture round · Jul 2026 · 4 mo ago
3backers · Bison Ventures, Toba Capital
Overview
A new class of AI hardware from first principles. Photonics, superconductors, and brain-inspired architecture for compute beyond silicon.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$45.3M
5 rounds on record
Latest round
$25.9M
Venture round · Jul 2026 · 4 mo ago
Team
9
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
1
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Bison Ventures, Toba Capital
The money's age
Fresh money
4 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
33/100
hiring for its size, fresh money
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
Jul 23
Board appointment Mark Wade, Director · SEC Form D
Jul 10
Raised a round Venture round $25.9M · SEC Form D
Mar 13
Raised a round Seed $14M · led by Bison Ventures · Pulse 2.0
Mar 13
Launched Great Sky Unveils Brain-like Computing Architecture Built for the Next Era of AI · YahooFinance
Sep 12, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $3M · SEC Form D
Jun 25, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $1.8M · SEC Form D
Oct 8, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $630k · SEC Form D
2024
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 8%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jul 2026 | $25.9M | — | SEC Form D |
| Seed | Mar 2026 | $14M | Bison Ventures lead | Pulse 2.0 |
| Venture round | Sep 2025 | $3M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Jun 2025 | $1.8M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Oct 2024 | $630k | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Great Sky Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Jeffrey ShainlineExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Toba Capital 
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Jobs
$150k – $190k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Boulder
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Visa sponsorship
0
H-1B filings in 12 months
1
Open roles in United States
In the register as Great Sky, Inc., Boulder, CO
Other sponsors in the same field
NVIDIA 
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
29/100
Slowing
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
21 days
faster than 58% 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.
Semiconductors
27% ▲
Hardware
18% ▲
AI/ML
9% ▼
Backend
9% ▼
Leadership
9% ▼
Management
9% ▲
Activity Timeline
+6 jobs in a week
Sep 2026
Financials
Total raised
$45.3M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
5
People
Jeffrey Shainline
Executive Officer, Director
Tom Biegala
Director
Mark Wade
Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Great Sky over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
33
Postings analysed
9
Stack modernity
66/100
Languages
Python
Bash
C++
Rust
Frameworks & libraries
JAX
PyTorch
CUDA
Pydantic
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Active Directory
Azure
Cloudflare
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News
Great Sky: $14 Million Seed Raised For Brain-Inspired Superconducting AI Computing Architecture
Great Sky, a startup developing a brain-inspired computing platform for artificial intelligence, announced the debut of its superconducting optoelectronic architecture alongside a $14 million seed funding round led by Bison Ventures with participation fro
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Great Sky Unveils Brain-like Computing Architecture Built for the Next Era of AI
BOULDER, Colo., March 13, 2026--Great Sky is a company pioneering a fundamentally new computing architecture for AI. Today, the company announced the public debut of its technology, fundraising, and several major commercial milestones. Its superconducting
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Great Sky Island walkthrough in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
The Great Sky Island is the tutorial area of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Our walkthrough will guide you through, including how to get to the third and fourth shrine.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Boulder
Boulder
United States
HQ
1 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $190k Avg Salary
hires for Semiconductors
5755 Central Ave, Suite 100
Earlier presence
Palo Alto, United States