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Funding and backers

Total raised
$179.4M
9 rounds on record
Latest round
$80M
Series B · Feb 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
39
+18 posted in 30 days
Grants
$4.3M
4 grants · CORDIS
Backers
5
General Catalyst, Human Capital Investment Management LLC
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
53/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
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
Feb 13 Raised a round Series B $80M · SEC Form D Jul 9, 2025 Raised a round Series A $20M Mar 28, 2024 Won a grant $1.8M · CORDIS Feb 8, 2024 Won a grant $1.2M · CORDIS Sep 15, 2023 Won a grant $1.2M · CORDIS May 4, 2023 Won a grant $75k · CORDIS 2023 Founded Nov 21, 2022 Raised a round Venture round $4.9M · SEC Form D
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
6
best: 4 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Feb 2026 $80M — SEC Form D
Series A Jul 2025 $20M — newswire.com
Venture round May 2025 $23.7M — SEC Form D
Venture round Apr 2025 $50.8M — SEC Form D
Grant Mar 2024 $1.8M — CORDIS
Grant Feb 2024 $1.2M — CORDIS
Grant Sep 2023 $1.2M — CORDIS
Grant May 2023 $75k — CORDIS
Venture round Nov 2022 $4.9M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Nominal, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Cameron McCordExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Bryce StraussExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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How Nominal hires

Truth index
A 87/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
52%
Reposted roles
0%

Nominal scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 25 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 52% 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

Nominal builds a connected test and operations platform for hardware engineering teams, ingesting test and telemetry data, analyzing performance and automating test execution. It serves aerospace, defense and robotics teams, from spacecraft to autonomous vehicles, and hires forward deployed, product and mission operations engineers. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States.

News

News GoldSilver 21 days ago
Interest Rates and Gold: Why the Fed Didn't Move the Price
Interest rates and gold: the Fed didn't move the price. The real 10-year yield did. See the FRED data and check it yourself.
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Press release U.S. Department of the Treasury 2 months ago
Treasury Announces Increased Sizes of Nominal Long-End Liquidity Support Buybacks Beginning September 9
WASHINGTON, D.C. -The U.S. Department of the Treasury is increasing, by at least double, the size of liquidity support buyback operations for longer-dated nominal coupon securities (the 10-year to 20-year sector and the 20-year to 30-year sector). The cur
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News nominal.io 7 months ago
Nominal Connect: Shipping Realtime Desktop Software With Rust, Bevy, and egui
A one year retrospective on the technology behind Nominal Connect.
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News Business Insider 1 year ago
The AI startup Nominal wants to address the accountant shortage. Read the pitch deck that it used to raise $20 million.
AI startup Nominal helps CFOs and controllers automate tasks and cut down on manual work as the number of CPAs is on the decline.
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News Pulse 2.0 1 year ago
Nominal: $20 Million Series A Closed For AI-Based ERP Platform
Nominal, an AI-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) startup, announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding, led by Next47, with participation from Workday Ventures, Bling Capital, and Hyperwise Ventures. This brings their total funding to $3
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Nominal over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
51
Postings analysed
20
Stack modernity
73/100AI adopter
Languages
Python35%
SQL25%
MATLAB20%
TypeScript10%
Frameworks & libraries
Pandas20%
OpenTelemetry5%
React.js5%
Flink5%
Databases
ClickHouse5%
MySQL5%
PostgreSQL5%
Snowflake5%
Cloud & platforms
Grafana15%
Datadog10%
Kubernetes10%
GitHub5%
AI & ML
LLM20%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$70k – $275k
Open positions
17
11 Jobs
Junior 18.2%
Middle 18.2%
Senior 54.5%
Staff 9.1%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 2 $128k $75k – $180k
Middle 2 $133k $70k – $195k
Senior 6 $190k $180k – $275k
Staff 1 $230k $230k
Highest paying role Frontend Software Engineer, Data $275k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Nominal By role, level and city, against the market · 17 jobs with pay

People

Cameron McCord
Executive Officer, Director
Bryce Strauss
Executive Officer, Director
Bilal Zuberi
Director
Jason Hoch
Director
Paul Kwan
Director
Brandon Reeves
Director
Alfred Lin
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
66/100
Growing
Open positions
39
12 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
110 days
faster than 13% of the market
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.
Backend
26% ▲
Industrial Engineering
19% ▲
HR
11% ▼
AI/ML
7% ▲
Design
7% ▲
Frontend
4% ▼
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Agentic Workflows to stack Oct 2026
+6 jobs in a week Oct 2026
New location: Washington Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
5
Countries
2
Busiest office
Los Angeles
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Los Angeles United States
HQ
4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $187k Avg Salary
hires for HR, Management, Sales
seen since May 2025 job postings
New York United States
Regional office
31 open roles 24 posted in 90 days 52% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $214k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Industrial Engineering, AI/ML
seen since Mar 2024 job postings
London United Kingdom
2 open roles 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend, Industrial Engineering
seen since Oct 2025 job postings
Washington United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $70k Avg Salary
hires for Administrative
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Austin United States
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff $75k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Aug 2025 job postings

Jobs

≈ $82k – $174k per year (Estimated) • In office • Internship • New York
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In office • Internship • New York
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≈ $138k – $286k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • New York
Python
Cursor
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
Function Calling
OpenAI Codex
Agentic Workflows
Tool Use
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≈ $221k – $403k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • New York
Cursor
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
Function Calling
LLM
OpenAI Codex
Tool Use
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≈ $216k – $442k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • New York
Cursor
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
Fine-tuning
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
OpenAI Codex
Post-training
Model Distillation
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≈ $219k – $400k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • New York
Cursor
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
OpenAI Codex
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≈ $210k – $429k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • New York
Cursor
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
Embeddings
Multimodal AI
Anomaly Detection
Time Series Forecasting
OpenAI Codex
Machine Learning
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≈ $146k – $288k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • New York
Cursor
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
LLM
OpenAI Codex
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≈ $144k – $285k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • New York
TypeScript
Cursor
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
OpenAI Codex
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$94k – $140k per year • In office • Full-Time • New York
Python
SQL
MATLAB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
ClickHouse
AI/ML
Pandas
DevOps
Datadog
GitHub
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≈ $129k – $261k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • New York
Multimodal AI
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In office • Internship • New York
Multimodal AI
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Financials

Total raised
$183.7M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
9
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2026 $80M Details
Series A 2025 $20M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $23.7M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $50.8M Details
Grant 2024 $1.8M Details
Grant 2024 $1.2M Details
Grant 2023 $1.2M Details
Grant 2023 $75k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $4.9M Details