Micro1
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$38.3M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$35M
Venture round · Sep 2025 · 13 mo ago
Team
43
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
45
+44 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Antler, 01 Advisors
The money's age
Due for its next round
13 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
54/100
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
Sep 13, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $35M · The Tech
Oct 24, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $3.3M · Pulse 2.0
Jan 2023
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.79%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
3
best: 4 points
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Antler 
01 Advisors 
Activant Capital 
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News
Sep 15, 2026 Human artificial intelligence starts with knowing what you want to do Read more
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Little-known AI startup Micro1 tries to trump Google's bid for banrkupt Spirit Airlines' data
Micro1's $12.5 million offer for Spirit Airlines' data highlights the growing market for corporate records used to train AI.
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Selling your company's data
Micro1 pays companies for their operational data and workflows to train AI. CEO Ali Ansari.
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micro1 hiring 10,000 worldwide to label robot training videos
California-based micro1 is hiring 10,000 people globally to train robots by reviewing and labeling task videos, offering up to $90/hour with no prior AI experience required.
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Micro1 Wants Human Domain Experts To Profit From AI And LLMs
Much like the ecosystem of life that surrounds a blue whale, a market of AI SaaS vendors is springing up around the biggest AI companies. And AI data startup Micro1 is emblematic of the shifting nature of these early-stage AI vendors. The company began in
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AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals.
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AI startup Micro1 wants to challenge Google's winning bid for Spirit Airlines data with a higher offer
AI training startup Micro1 is making a late $12.5 million bid for Spirit Airlines' data, testing whether it can disrupt Google's winning deal.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Micro1 over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
50
Postings analysed
31
Stack modernity
75/100
Languages
Python42%
JavaScript6%
TypeScript6%
C++6%
SQL6%
Dart3%
Julia3%
Kotlin3%
Frameworks & libraries
NumPy10%
SciPy10%
React.js6%
Matplotlib3%
Flutter3%
Godot3%
Jetpack Compose3%
Nest.JS3%
Databases
PostgreSQL3%
Snowflake3%
Cloud & platforms
GitHub10%
Figma6%
AWS3%
Bioconductor3%
Linux3%
Developer tools
Cursor10%
GraphQL6%
SolidWorks6%
Claude Code3%
Microsoft Excel3%
Rest API3%
Simulink3%
Adobe After Effects3%
Practices & domains
Machine Learning19%
AI Agents10%
Human-in-the-Loop10%
Reinforcement Learning6%
Platform Engineering3%
Synthetic Data3%
CI/CD3%
State Management3%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$240k
Typical range
$80k – $550k
Open positions
38
22
Jobs
Junior
9.1%
Middle
22.7%
Senior
45.5%
Staff
18.2%
Architect
4.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $245k | $90k – $400k |
| Middle | 5 | $250k | $210k – $360k |
| Senior | 10 | $180k | $160k – $240k |
| Staff | 4 | $550k | $500k – $550k |
| Architect | 1 | $500k | $500k |
Highest paying role
Strategic Project Lead, J.D./Legal Expertise
$550k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Micro1
By role, level and city, against the market · 38 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
78/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
48
26 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 23% of the market
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.
Legal
16% ▲
Backend
11% ▼
Science & Research
9% ▲
Industrial Engineering
9% ▲
AI/ML
7% ▲
Data Science
5% ▲
Actively hiring for Legal (+9 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Snowflake to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Workspace to stack
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Added SciPy to stack
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Added NumPy to stack
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Added Unity to stack
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Added Godot to stack
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Added C# to stack
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Added Sketch to stack
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Added Adobe Photoshop to stack
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Added Adobe After Effects to stack
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Added Figma to stack
Oct 2026
Jobs
$120k – $240k per year • Remote (United States) • Contractor
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$200k – $300k per year • Remote (likely United States) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Nest.JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude Code
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
CI/CD
AWS
Platform Engineering
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≈ $73k – $208k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely United States) • Contractor
JavaScript
Kotlin
TypeScript
Dart
Swift
Reinforcement Learning
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
Jetpack Compose
UIKit
SwiftUI
Flutter
React Native
State Management
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$300k – $400k per year • Remote (likely United States) • Contractor • 1+ year exp
Machine Learning
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$120k – $240k per year • Remote (likely United States) • Contractor
Python
Machine Learning
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≈ $62k – $129k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely United States) • Contractor • 3+ years exp
SQL
Snowflake
Management
Slack
Google Workspace
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$160k – $300k per year • Remote (likely United States) • Contractor
Python
SciPy
NumPy
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$100k – $160k per year • Remote (likely United States) • Contractor • 3+ years exp
SQL
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$50k – $140k per year • Remote (likely United States) • Contractor
C#
C++
AI Agents
DevOps
GitHub
Game Dev
Godot
Unity
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$180k – $350k per year • Remote (likely United States) • Contractor
Adobe Photoshop
Figma
Sketch
Adobe After Effects
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≈ $168k – $336k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely United States) • Full-Time
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
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