Nace.AI

Education AI · LLM & Generative AI
7open roles
$21.5Mlatest round · Seed · May 2026 · 6 mo ago
3backers · .406 Ventures, General Catalyst
Growinghiring pace, 58 of 100

Overview

Nace.AI was born from our collective experiences at Google, Meta, Amazon, and the University of Toronto. We build trustworthy AI systems that run companies.

Key facts

As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 7 open roles at Nace.AI. Nace.AI is headquartered in Palo Alto, United States. The latest round is Seed of $21.5M, announced in 2026.

Headquarters
Palo Alto, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
Employees
50+Alion company profile, an estimated range
Total raised
$21.5MSum of 1 equity round Alion knows
Latest round
Seed · $21.5M · May 5, 2026Press report · finance.yahoo.com
Visa sponsorship, United States
2 · H-1B filings in 12 monthsUS Department of Labor · latest filing Apr 23, 2026
Technologies in its job postings
58Named in its job postings

How Nace.AI hires

Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
208 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Nace.AI scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 208 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

Total raised
$21.5M
1 round on record
Latest round
$21.5M
Seed · May 2026 · 6 mo ago
Team
10
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +25% in a year
Hiring now
7
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
.406 Ventures, General Catalyst
The money's age
Fresh money
6 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
26/100
hiring for its size, 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
Oct 9 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Nace.ai Document Intelligence 1.0 May 5 Raised a round Seed $21.5M · led by Walden Catalyst Ventures · YahooFinance 2025 Team of 10 was 8 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Mar 23, 2025 Launched Nace.AI Emerges from Stealth with MetaModel, an AI System That Generates Task-Specific Models for Enterprise · itnewsonline.com Jan 2024 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 8%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Launched on Hacker News
8 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Seed May 2026 $21.5M Walden Catalyst Ventures lead, General Catalyst YahooFinance
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs

In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Palo Alto
SQL
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≈ $123k – $242k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Palo Alto
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
AI Agents
Arize Phoenix
LangSmith
LLM
RAG
Multi-Agent Systems
Frontend
Vue.js
Angular
React.js
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
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≈ $126k – $245k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Palo Alto
LLM
Management
Linear
Notion
Jira
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≈ $136k – $262k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 6+ years exp · Palo Alto
SQL
Apply
≈ $155k – $287k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Palo Alto
AI Agents
Design
Figma
Management
Linear
Miro
Agile
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≈ $166k – $320k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · PhD · Palo Alto
Python
JAX
Multimodal AI
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
Machine Learning
Apply

Visa sponsorship

#4,273 of 8,998 sponsors
2
H-1B filings in 12 months
$188k
Median offered salary
7
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Software developers
2
The salary offered for each occupationVisa pass · 90 credits
In the register as Nace.ai, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Other sponsors in the same field
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Apr 23, 2026 · Visa details by country

Growth

Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
7
1 opened / 11 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
208 days
faster than 5% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
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
50% ▼
Leadership
25% ▼
Marketing
25% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added ISO 27001 to stack Sep 2026
Added OCR to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Financials

Total raised
$21.5M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Seed 2026 $21.5M Details

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Nace.AI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
58
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
85/100AI adopter
Languages
Python31%
SQL15%
JavaScript15%
Go8%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch15%
TensorFlow15%
React.js15%
Angular8%
Cloud & platforms
AWS15%
Azure15%
GCP15%
Kubernetes15%
AI & ML
LLM46%
AWQ15%
GPTQ15%
Claude8%
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Full Nace.AI tech stack 58 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Connections

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Graph
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Shared investors3
32 portfolio companies: Graphcore, Snorkel AI, Hyperbolic and 29 more
.406 VenturesVia a fund
53 portfolio companies: Wellist, AblePay Health, LatentSpin and 50 more
610 portfolio companies

News

News Pulse 2.0 6 months ago
Nace.AI Secures $21.5 Million To Build Metamodel That Autonomously Runs Enterprise Workflows
Nace.AI has raised $21.5 million in seed funding to commercialize a platform where more than 100 specialized AI agents autonomously execute complex enterprise workflows, with human experts providing final validation. The round was led by Walden Catalyst w
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News YahooFinance 6 months ago
Nace.AI Secures $21.5M to Build a Metamodel That Autonomously Runs Enterprise Workflows, With Experts Providing Final Validation
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 05, 2026--Nace.AI today announced it has raised $21.5 million in seed funding, led by Walden Catalyst with participation from General Catalyst.
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News YahooFinance 1 year ago
Nace.AI Emerges from Stealth with MetaModel, an AI System That Generates Task-Specific Models for Enterprise
With $5M led by General Catalyst, Nace.AI Redefines Enterprise AI with Precision-Driven Small ModelsPALO ALTO, Calif., March 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nace.AI, an AI company pioneering precision-driven enterprise models, has emerged from stealth with $
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Palo Alto
Palo Alto United States
HQ
7 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 29% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Product, Marketing, AI/ML
seen since Mar 2026 job postings

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