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Funding and backers

Total raised
$55M
1 round on record
Latest round
$55M
Venture round · Apr 2025 · 17 mo ago
Team
77
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +51% in a year
Hiring now
8
open roles
Backers
3
500 Global, Y Combinator
The money's age
Due for its next round
17 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
10/100
a new city
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
Jun 26 First role in Canada Senior Backend Engineer 2025 Team of 77 was 51 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Apr 23, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $55M Jun 2016 Went through Y Combinator Mar 21, 2016 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Instrumentl, get matched with scientific grants and easily apply online 2015 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.29%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Launched on Hacker News
43 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Apr 2025 $55M — businesswire.com
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How Instrumentl hires

Truth index
B 78/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
88%
Reposted roles
0%

Instrumentl scores B 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, 88% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. 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

Visa sponsorship

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Overview

Instrumentl helps nonprofits find, win, manage, and collaborate on grants. Connect discovery, applications, and award management in a single workspace..

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Instrumentl over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
43
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL
Python
Ruby
D
Frameworks & libraries
Ruby on Rails
Celery
FastAPI
DeepEval
Databases
Amazon Redshift
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
AWS
GCP
Azure
Amazon Kinesis
AI & ML
LLM
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Full Instrumentl tech stack 43 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$110k
Typical range
$75k – $220k
Open positions
3
2 Jobs
Junior 50%
Staff 50%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $75k $75k
Staff 1 $220k $220k
Highest paying role Staff Product Manager - Core $220k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
62/100
Growing
Open positions
8
0 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
122 days
faster than 12% of the market
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.
Sales
67% ▼
Customer Success
33% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Canada Oct 2026
New location: United States Oct 2026
New location: Oakland Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack Sep 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack Aug 2026
Added Amazon Kinesis to stack Aug 2026
Added Tableau to stack Aug 2026
Added SQL to stack Aug 2026
Added Snowflake to stack Aug 2026
Added Google BigQuery to stack Aug 2026
Added GCP to stack Aug 2026
Added CI/CD to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Oakland
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San Francisco United States
HQ
Oakland United States
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 50% engineering 50% remote 200-500 est. staff $220k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Product
seen since Feb 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $128k – $222k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Oakland
Python
TypeScript
SQL
Ruby
FastAPI
Celery
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
AI/ML
LangGraph
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Embeddings
Function Calling
DeepEval
Ragas
Semantic Kernel
LLM
RAG
OpenAI Evals
Hybrid Search
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
Recommender Systems
Tool Use
DevOps
GCP
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
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$150k – $220k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Oakland
Human-in-the-Loop
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Financials

Total raised
$55M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $55M Details