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Products
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Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$21.5M
1 round on record
Latest round
$21.5M
Seed · May 2026 · 5 mo ago
Team
10
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +25% in a year
Hiring now
17
open roles
Backers
3
.406 Ventures, General Catalyst
The money's age
Fresh money
5 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
20/100
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
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
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Seed May 2026 $21.5M Walden Catalyst Ventures lead, General Catalyst YahooFinance
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How Nace.AI hires

Truth index
D 51/100
Ghost roles
82%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Nace.AI scores D on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 17 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 82% look like ghost listings, 0% 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

Visa sponsorship

#3,811 of 8,228 sponsors
2
H-1B filings in 12 months
$188k
Median offered salary
17
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
US Department of Labor · latest filing Apr 23, 2026 · Visa details by country

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.

Connections

List
Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors3
30 portfolio companies: Graphcore, Qualcomm, DRIVE AG and 27 more
.406 VenturesVia a fund
51 portfolio companies: Wellist, Way Spring and 49 more
606 portfolio companies

News

News Pulse 2.0 5 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 5 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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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
12
Stack modernity
85/100AI adopter
Languages
Python33%
JavaScript17%
Go8%
Node JS8%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch17%
TensorFlow17%
React.js17%
Angular8%
Cloud & platforms
AWS17%
Azure17%
GCP17%
Kubernetes17%
AI & ML
LLM50%
AWQ17%
GPTQ17%
Claude8%
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Full Nace.AI tech stack 58 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$140k
Typical range
$140k
Open positions
1
1 Jobs
Senior 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 1 $140k $140k
Highest paying role Senior Technical Recruiter $140k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
17
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 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
67% ▲
Leadership
33% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added ISO 27001 to stack Sep 2026
Added OCR to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

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
17 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 24% engineering 50-200 est. staff $140k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Product, Finance
seen since Mar 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $204k – $382k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · Palo Alto
AI Agents
LLM
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
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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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≈ $164k – $315k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Palo Alto
Python
Weights & Biases
Spark
vLLM
MLFlow
Fine-tuning
RLHF
Quantization
Knowledge Distillation
SGLang
AWQ
GGUF
GPTQ
TGI
Kubeflow
LLM
Ray
DPO
KV Cache
Model Distillation
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Apply
≈ $138k – $251k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Palo Alto
JavaScript
Cursor
Claude
OpenAI Codex
Frontend
React.js
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≈ $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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≈ $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
Apply
≈ $167k – $323k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Palo Alto
Python
Spark
vLLM
Fine-tuning
RLHF
Quantization
Multimodal AI
NLP
AWQ
GGUF
GPTQ
TGI
Transformers
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
Synthetic Data
DPO
PPO
GRPO
Post-training
Pre-training
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
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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

Financials

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