Known
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$9.5M
1 round on record
Latest round
$9.5M
Venture round · Oct 2025 · 12 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
16
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Pear VC, Forerunner Ventures
The money's age
Due for its next round
12 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
20/100
hiring for its size, in the news
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
Feb 1
Released an app Known: Swipeless Dating App · App Store
Oct 27, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $9.5M · SEC Form D
2021
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.4 ★
1.2k ratings
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Oct 2025 | $9.5M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Known Holdings LLC | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Ushir ShahExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Celeste AmadonExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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How Known hires
Truth index
B 83/100
Median time to fill
38 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
67%
Reposted roles
0%
Known scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 67% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 38 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
Visa sponsorship
2
H-1B filings in 12 months
$123k
Median offered salary
16
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Financial managers
1
General and operations managers
1
In the register as Known Holdings LLC, New York, NY (+1 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
AppLovin 
Merkle 
dentsu 
Horizon Media
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 12, 2026 · Visa details by country
Overview
Known is a media and advertising company whose Media Science team uses analytics, machine learning and statistics to plan and optimize advertising spend. It buys media across channels for clients and hires media strategy, direct partnership and negotiation managers. The company is headquartered in New York, United States.
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Shared investors
Forerunner VenturesVia a fund
Pear VCVia a fund
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Owner
Same company
Same group
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News
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Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said a new report indicates the central bank's staff missed signs ahead of Silicon Valley Bank's 2023 failure.
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Spotted wildcat from Bolivian forest revealed as new species
A spotted wildcat long mistaken for relatives has been identified as a new species in Bolivia.
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Newfound 'Baby' Planet Smashes Record for Youngest Known World
Astronomers have confirmed a world that's less than a million years old as the youngest known planet, using data from NASA-funded archives. Called Elias 2-24
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Rise of the robot matchmaker: San Diego singles are letting an algorithm find their perfect match
"I'm not a real person, so just be honest," says the AI matchmaker from a dating app called Known.
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Which well-known sites block AI search crawlers
A check of 32 recognizable sites: 16 block at least one AI search crawler and 10 are invisible to both ChatGPT and Perplexity. Read from their public robots.txt, September 2026.
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Largest Roman mosaic opens to the public
The first-century mosaic and accompanying fresco located beneath the Baths of Trajan in Rome welcomed its first visitors this past weekend
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Known over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
14
Postings analysed
21
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Python24%
SQL24%
JavaScript5%
Frameworks & libraries
XGBoost5%
Cloud & platforms
Looker10%
Tableau10%
Microsoft Entra ID5%
Windows5%
AI & ML
Claude5%
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14 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$128k
Typical range
$90k – $250k
Open positions
16
16
Jobs
Middle
12.5%
Senior
37.5%
Staff
12.5%
Architect
37.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 2 | $118k | $105k – $130k |
| Senior | 6 | $90k | $90k – $170k |
| Staff | 2 | $138k | $125k – $150k |
| Architect | 6 | $175k | $125k – $250k |
Highest paying role
Creative Director (Social)
$250k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Known
By role, level and city, against the market · 16 jobs with pay
People
Ushir Shah
Executive Officer
Celeste Amadon
Executive Officer, Director
Asher Allen
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
44/100
Stable
Open positions
16
3 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
39 days
faster than 34% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 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.
Operations
68% ▲
Management
9% ▼
Sales
9% ▼
Data Science
5% ▼
Leadership
5% ▼
Analytics
5% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Service Desk to stack
Sep 2026
Added ITIL to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linear to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
6
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
New York
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New York
United States
HQ
New York
15 open roles 22 posted in 90 days 7% engineering 20% remote 200-500 est. staff $132k Avg Salary
hires for Operations, Management, Leadership
Los Angeles
United States
Regional office
Los Angeles
2 open roles 10-50 est. staff $210k Avg Salary
hires for Management, Marketing
San Francisco
United States
Regional office
San Francisco
Seattle
United States
Regional office
Seattle
Cambridge
United States
Regional office
Boston
Austin
United States
Regional office
Austin
Jobs
$140k – $170k per year · Remote (United States) · 8+ years exp · PhD · New York
Python
SQL
XGBoost
Synthetic Data
Machine Learning
DevOps
Git
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$160k – $180k per year · In office · 5+ years exp · PhD · New York
Python
SQL
Machine Learning
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$120k – $130k per year · In office · 3+ years exp · PhD · New York
Python
SQL
Machine Learning
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$9.5M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | $9.5M | Details |