Manex AI
Artificial Intelligence · Transportation & Logistics
3open roles
Venture roundlatest round · Mar 2025 · 19 mo ago
1backers · Lightspeed Venture Partners
73 daysmedian time a role stays open
Overview
Manex AI builds Kosmos, the Autonomous Enterprise AI Platform for industrial and manufacturing OEMs - unifying quality (Blackbelt), execution (Takt), and shopfloor (Gemba) operations into one production system.
How Manex AI hires
Truth index
B 83/100
Median time to fill
73 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
50%
Reposted roles
0%
Manex AI scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 50% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 73 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
Funding and backers
Latest round
Venture round
Mar 2025 · 19 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
6
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Lightspeed Venture Partners
The money's age
Due for its next round
19 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
7/100
hiring for its size
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
Oct 2026
Formerly Datagon AI GmbH (datagon.ai)
Mar 27, 2025
Raised a round Venture round
2023
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Mar 2025 | — | — | handelsregister.de |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Manex AI GmbH | its site |
| Registered | 13 Sep 2023 |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs
≈ $63k – $144k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Munich
Python
JavaScript
Rust
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
DuckDB
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Terraform
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
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≈ $59k – $145k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Munich
JavaScript
TypeScript
AI Agents
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
Next.js
React.js
Storybook
QA
Playwright
Vitest
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≈ $72k – $156k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Munich
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
32/100
Slowing
Open positions
6
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
73 days
faster than 16% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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.
Frontend
33% ▲
Customer Success
33% ▲
Early Careers
33% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Vitest to stack
Oct 2026
Added Tailwind CSS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Storybook to stack
Oct 2026
Added Next.js to stack
Oct 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Financials
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | — | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Manex AI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
36
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
82/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Rust
Frameworks & libraries
Playwright
React.js
Cypress
Selenium
Databases
PostgreSQL
DuckDB
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes
AWS
GitHub Actions
Linux
AI & ML
LLM
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Full Manex AI tech stack
36 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Connections
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Graph
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Shared investors
Lightspeed Venture PartnersVia a fund
634 portfolio companies
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Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Munich
Munich
Germany
HQ
6 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Backend, Frontend