Gruve
AI Consulting & Integration · Managed Security
$87.5Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
12open roles
$50Mlatest round · Series A · Feb 2026 · 9 mo ago
2backers · Cisco Investments, Mayfield
Overview
Gruve is an AI-native enterprise technology services company headquartered in Redwood City, California, providing managed AI security services, AI SOC and digital forensics, Cisco-powered security, data center and networking services, and its PulseAI private AI infrastructure platform. A Cisco services partner and a well-funded early-stage startup, it serves enterprise customers from offices in the US, India, Singapore, the UAE, South Korea and Japan, with its largest teams in Pune and Mumbai. It hires network and security engineers, SOC analysts, infrastructure leads, AI and software engineers, Salesforce developers and cybersecurity sales staff.
How Gruve hires
Truth index
A 89/100
Median time to fill
35 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
38%
Reposted roles
13%
Gruve scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 8 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 38% have gone stale and 13% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 35 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
$87.5M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$50M
Series A · Feb 2026 · 9 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
16
+6 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Cisco Investments, Mayfield
The money's age
Fresh money
9 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
60/100
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
Feb 3
Raised a round Series A $50M · led by CEO Tarun Raisoni · Business Insider
Apr 29, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $37.5M
Sep 18, 2024
Acquisition Gruve Acquires NetServ to Drive AI-Powered Services for Enterprise Growth · businesswire.com
Jul 30, 2024
Launched Gruve Launches Revolutionary AI-Driven Platform and Announces its first Strategic Acquisition · sdxcentral.com
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Feb 2026 | $50M | CEO Tarun Raisoni lead | Business Insider |
| Venture round | Apr 2025 | $37.5M | — | webwire.com |
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Jobs
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ITIL
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Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Pinecone
AI/ML
Copilot
LangGraph
AutoGen
LangChain
Claude
Model Context Protocol
Function Calling
AI Agents
CrewAI
RAG
OpenAI
Anthropic
GPT-4
EU AI Act
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$193k
Typical range
$150k – $235k
Open positions
2
2
Jobs
Middle
50%
Architect
50%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $150k | $150k |
| Architect | 1 | $235k | $235k |
Highest paying role
Director of Human Resources
$235k
Normalized to USD per year
Visa sponsorship
0
H-1B filings in 12 months
2
Open roles in United States
In the register as Gruve, Inc., Redwood City, CA (+1 more)
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US Department of Labor · latest filing May 16, 2025 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
92/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
16
9 opened / 21 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
28 days
faster than 48% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
11/05/2026
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.
Security
21% ▼
DevOps
13% ▲
Networking
10% ▼
Enterprise Apps
10% ▲
Backend
8% ▼
Sales
8% ▲
Actively hiring for Enterprise Apps (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Redwood City
Oct 2026
New location: Dallas
Oct 2026
Added DNP3 to stack
Oct 2026
Added HL7 to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack
Oct 2026
New location: India
Oct 2026
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added MuleSoft to stack
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Added Structured Outputs to stack
Oct 2026
Added SharePoint to stack
Oct 2026
Added Power Automate to stack
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Added OWASP to stack
Oct 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Gruve over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
147
Postings analysed
47
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
Python32%
JavaScript23%
PowerShell13%
TypeScript13%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js11%
LangChain9%
FastAPI9%
LangGraph9%
Databases
PostgreSQL2%
Pinecone2%
Cloud & platforms
Azure32%
GCP30%
Kubernetes28%
AWS28%
AI & ML
LLM9%
Claude6%
ChatGPT4%
GPT-42%
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
15
Hiring now
6
Countries
7
Busiest office
Redwood City
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Redwood City
United States
HQ
Redwood City
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $235k Avg Salary
hires for HR
Pune
India
Engineering / R&D
Pune
3 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 67% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, DevOps, Industrial Engineering
Seoul
South Korea
Engineering / R&D
Seoul
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Enterprise Apps
Mumbai
India
Support & operations
Mumbai
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Security
Singapore
Singapore
Sales office
Singapore
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
Edison
United States
Regional office
Edison
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $150k Avg Salary
hires for Security
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Regional office
Dubai
2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
Bengaluru
India
Regional office
Bangalore
1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
Dallas
United States
Regional office
Dallas
1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
Tokyo
Japan
Regional office
Tokyo
London
United Kingdom
Regional office
London
Hyderabad
India
Regional office
Hyderabad
Aurangabad
India
Regional office
Aurangabad
Delhi
India
Regional office
Delhi
Houston
United States
Regional office
Houston