Teak
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$17.7M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$5M
Venture round · May 2020 · 6 yr ago
Team
8
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
Hiring now
2
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
American Family Ventures, IA Capital Group
The money's age
Long since its last round
76 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
27/100
hiring for its size
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 2026
Formerly Teak - Building better experiences (protecht.io)
May 29, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $5M · SEC Form D
Aug 15, 2019
Raised a round Venture round $5M · SEC Form D
Jul 16, 2018
Raised a round Venture round $7.7M · SEC Form D
2016
Founded
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | May 2020 | $5M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Aug 2019 | $5M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Jul 2018 | $7.7M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | PROTECHT, INC. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Bryan DerbyshireExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
American Family Ventures 
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Overview
Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Teak is an innovative financial technology and insurance-software company specializing in embedded refund protection and consumer flexibility solutions. Founded in 2016 and formerly known as Protecht, the platform provides businesses across live events, sports, ticketing, and travel with tools such as Smart Refunds and Friendly Insurance to turn cancellation risks into ancillary revenue streams. By combining proprietary data analytics with seamless API integrations, the enterprise simplifies claims management and delivers a transparent, customer-centric booking experience.
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Teak over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
24
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
88/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
Frameworks & libraries
Django
LangChain
LangGraph
Cloud & platforms
AWS
AWS Bedrock
Anthropic
Azure
GCP
OpenAI
Developer tools
Model Context Protocol
AI & ML
Claude
Gemini
LLM
Practices & domains
AI Agents
Hallucination
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
Multi-Agent Systems
RAG
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Bryan Derbyshire
Executive Officer, Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
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.
AI/ML
50% ▲
Marketing
50% ▲
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Phoenix
United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff
Jobs
≈ $107k – $236k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely United States) • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Django
AI/ML
LangGraph
LangChain
Claude
Model Context Protocol
Fine-tuning
Knowledge Distillation
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
Gemini
LLM
RAG
Hallucination
OpenAI
Anthropic
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
Model Distillation
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
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