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Jobs
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$79M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$50M
Series B · Aug 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
4
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
GV, Spider Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
26 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
10/100
hiring for its size
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
Jul 9 Launched Mechanical Orchard Releases Imogen Platform Improvements · morningstar.com Aug 7, 2024 Raised a round Series B $50M · YahooFinance Feb 7, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $24M Oct 17, 2022 Raised a round Venture round $5M · SEC Form D 2022 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.05%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
6
best: 4 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Aug 2024 $50M — YahooFinance
Venture round Feb 2024 $24M — datacenterdynamics.com
Venture round Oct 2022 $5M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Mechanical Orchard, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Riki CrushaExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Robert MeeExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Matthew WorkExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Martine BoyerExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Edward HieattExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Joe MilitelloExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How Mechanical Orchard hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Mechanical Orchard scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% 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

Overview

Mechanical Orchard is an AI-native technology company that specializes in modernizing legacy systems and software. Their innovative approach involves using AI-enhanced tools to reinvent and operate critical business applications, particularly those on mainframes, with minimal risk. They leverage an iterative process of reverse-engineering and replication to progressively modernize and move applications to the cloud, maintaining system stability while enabling innovation.

News

News Network World 1 year ago
Mechanical Orchard taps gen AI for mainframe-to-cloud modernization
Mechanical Orchard's Imogen platform uses generative AI to recreate mainframe operations as a digital twin in the cloud.
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News Pulse 2.0 2 years ago
Mechanical Orchard: $50 Million (Series B) Raised To Help Companies Transition Away From Legacy Software
Mechanical Orchard, a technology business reinventing the software that runs the world, announced it has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by GV.
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News YahooFinance 2 years ago
Mechanical Orchard, led by ex-Pivotal CEO, scores $50M round led by Alphabet
Digital transformation -- the process of transforming outdated apps and processes with cloud technologies and digital workflows -- can be a risky undertaking. In 2023, Harvard Business Review reported that while 89% of large companies have a digital and A
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News mechanical-orchard.com 2 years ago
Building confidence as a competency
Building confidence as a competency in legacy modernization
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News SiliconANGLE 2 years ago
Mechanical Orchard raises $24M to help companies ditch their mainframes for the cloud
Mainframe workload modernization startup Mechanical Orchard Inc. said it's hoping to gain more enterprise traction today after closing on a $24 million early-stagefunding round led by Emergence Ca
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Mechanical Orchard over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
7
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes
Developer tools
Docker
Helm
Terraform
AI & ML
LLM
Practices & domains
CI/CD
IAM
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People

Riki Crusha
Executive Officer
Robert Mee
Executive Officer, Director
Matthew Work
Executive Officer, Director
Martine Boyer
Executive Officer
Edward Hieatt
Executive Officer, Director
Joe Militello
Executive Officer
Cyrus Wadia
Executive Officer
Jake Saper
Director
Crystal Huang
Director
Sundeep Madra
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
47/100
Stable
Open positions
4
0 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
52 days
faster than 26% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
10/16/2026
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.
Backend
33% ▼
DevOps
33% ▼
Legal
33% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Agile to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco United States
HQ
Addresses
50-200 est. staff
San Francisco, CA 94133
company site

Jobs

≈ $57k – $108k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada, United States) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • United States • Canada
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≈ $67k – $138k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • Canada
LLM
Management
Agile
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Financials

Total raised
$79M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2024 $50M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $24M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $5M Details