LinkUP
Retail & Shop Systems · Access Control & Alarm Systems
3hiring now · +3 posted in 30 days
$10Mlatest round · Seed · Feb 2026 · 8 mo ago
10+team · employees, estimated range
10stories in the press
Overview
LinkUP is a retailer of smart door locks. It sells smart locks that open with Face ID, a passcode or a fingerprint and promotes them through its own content, social media and sales teams working in Kazakh and Russian. The company is based in Astana, Kazakhstan.
How LinkUP hires
Truth index
D 45/100
Ghost roles
67%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
100%
LinkUP scores D on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 67% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 100% 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
Funding and backers
Total raised
$10M
1 round on record
Latest round
$10M
Seed · Feb 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
+3 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
70/100
hiring for its size, a new city, fresh money
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 9
Raised a round Seed $10M · led by Gradient · Pulse 2.0
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 55%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Feb 2026 | $10M | Gradient lead, Elaia, Leblon Capital, Weekend Fund | Pulse 2.0 |
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$11k
Typical range
$8k – $22k
Open positions
3
1
Jobs
Architect
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architect | 1 | $8k | $8k |
Highest paying role
Менеджер по продажам
$22k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
90/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
3
5 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
5 days
faster than 87% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~1 days
11/07/2026
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
60% ▲
HR
20% ▲
Marketing
20% ▼
Actively hiring for Sales (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+3 jobs in a week
Oct 2026
New location: Karaganda
Oct 2026
Added PHP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Bitrix to stack
Sep 2026
Financials
Total raised
$10M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2026 | $10M | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at LinkUP over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
2
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
53/100
Languages
PHP
Developer tools
Bitrix
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Astana
Astana
Kazakhstan
HQ
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $14k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, HR
улица Бухар Жырау 30
Earlier presence
Karaganda, Kazakhstan