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Products
People
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Offices
Jobs
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$18.5M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$12M
Series A · Dec 2023 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
+1 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Long since its last round
34 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
28/100
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
Dec 5, 2023 Raised a round Series A $12M Nov 10, 2021 Raised a round Seed $6.5M · businesswire 2015 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 32%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series A Dec 2023 $12M — businesswire.com
Seed Nov 2021 $6.5M — businesswire
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News

News VIBELADDER 13 days ago
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News W&B 15 days ago
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News X (formerly Twitter) 23 days ago
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News EC&M 26 days ago
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Ladder over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
16
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
73/100
Languages
Clojure
JavaScript
TypeScript
Databases
BigQuery
Datomic
Google BigQuery
Cloud & platforms
Apache Kafka
GCP
Kubernetes
SIEM
Developer tools
Docker
GraphQL
Microsoft Excel
Rest API
Terraform
Practices & domains
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
29/100
Slowing
Open positions
3
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
101 days
faster than 15% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 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.
Security
33% ▼
Finance
33% ▼
Customer Success
33% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Rest API to stack Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Palo Alto United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff

Jobs

≈ $87k – $181k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • 4+ years exp
JavaScript
TypeScript
Clojure
Datomic
Databases
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
Rest API
Terraform
GCP
Docker
Kubernetes
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Cybersecurity
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SIEM
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Financials

Total raised
$18.5M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2023 $12M Details
Seed 2021 $6.5M Details