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Funding and backers

Total raised
$147.4M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$100M
Series C · Nov 2024 · 22 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
7
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Dell Technologies Capital, Cisco Investments
The money's age
Due for its next round
22 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
21/100
hiring for its size, in the news
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
Nov 25, 2024 Raised a round Series C $100M · BnkInfoSecurity Oct 31, 2024 Recognition Halcyon Named to Fortune Cyber 60 List for Second Consecutive Year · businesswire.com Apr 20, 2023 Raised a round Series A $44M · TechCrunch Feb 19, 2020 New executive Joshua Nussbaum, Executive Officer, Director · SEC Form D Feb 4, 2020 Raised a round Venture round $2.5M · SEC Form D Jul 31, 2019 Raised a round Venture round $910k · SEC Form D 2018 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.34%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
2
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series C Nov 2024 $100M — BnkInfoSecurity
Series A Apr 2023 $44M — TechCrunch
Venture round Feb 2020 $2.5M — SEC Form D
Venture round Jul 2019 $910k — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Halcyon Holding Corp SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Andrew ChildsExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Richard DavidsonExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Joshua NussbaumExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Andrew BrykExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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How Halcyon hires

Truth index
B 81/100
Median time to fill
52 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
75%
Reposted roles
0%

Halcyon scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 75% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 52 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

Halcyon is an American cybersecurity software and services company headquartered in Austin, TX. The core product is a ransomware prevention and recovery solution built to reduce business downtime for global enterprises.

News

Report
News Vogue 2 months ago
Luxury's Latest Cyber Risk? AI Agents Going Rogue
As AI bots become more sophisticated, the threat of security breaches is on the rise. Here's how brands can protect themselves.
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News TNW Data-security 2 months ago
Iran-linked hackers shut down a UK power plant for four days
A small UK power plant was offline for four days in July after a cyber attack, according to the Telegraph, which blamed Iran-linked hackers.
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News theregister 2 months ago
Autonomous AI attacks pose
Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn
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News Foreign Policy 2 months ago
Why Hackers Keep Going After U.S. Water Supplies
A spate of new attacks believed to be linked to Iran has highlighted the water sector's vulnerability.
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News Pitchfork 2 months ago
Citizen: Halcyon Blues
On its sixth album, the Midwest rock group channels a mood of regret and reckoning in songs that balance post-hardcore propulsion with disarming buoyancy.
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News MS NOW 2 months ago
President Trump's shamelessness has long been one of his superpowers
In today's Tea: Jonathan Lemire writes about Trump's ability to shrug off scandal; Americans' views about socialism and capitalism, and more.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Halcyon over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
1
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
90/100AI adopter
AI & ML
LLM
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$160k
Typical range
$160k – $215k
Open positions
7
7 Jobs
Senior 85.7%
Staff 14.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 6 $160k $160k
Staff 1 $215k $215k
Highest paying role Senior Deal Desk Lead $215k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Halcyon By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay

People

Andrew Childs
Executive Officer, Director
Richard Davidson
Executive Officer, Director
Joshua Nussbaum
Executive Officer, Director
Andrew Bryk
Executive Officer, Director
Richard Mudd
Director
Matthew Davidson
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
44/100
Stable
Open positions
7
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
49 days
faster than 28% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 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.
Sales
58% ▼
Security
17% ▲
Product
17% ▼
Finance
8% ▼

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
6
Hiring now
3
Countries
1
Busiest office
Chicago
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New York United States
HQ
1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
seen since Jul 2026
Chicago United States
Sales office
United States
1 open roles 100% remote 10-50 est. staff $160k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Dec 2025 job postings
Charlotte United States
Sales office
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% remote 10-50 est. staff $160k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Boston United States
Sales office
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% remote 10-50 est. staff $160k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
San Diego United States
Regional office
San Diego, CA (Hybrid)
careers board
Austin United States
Regional office
Austin, TX
careers board

Jobs

$120k – $160k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 5+ years exp
ISO 27001
SOC 2
GDPR
HIPAA
NIST 800-53
FedRAMP
Management
Google Workspace
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Financials

Total raised
$147.4M
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount Valuation
Series C 2024 $100M $1B Details
Series A 2023 $44M — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $2.5M — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 $910k — Details