Nuancelabs
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$56.4M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$46.7M
Venture round · Mar 2026 · 7 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
9
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
South Park Commons, Accel
The money's age
Fresh money
7 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
44/100
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
Mar 12
Raised a round Venture round $46.7M · SEC Form D
Jul 8, 2025
Raised a round Convertible Note $9.8M · SEC Form D
2025
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Mar 2026 | $46.7M | — | SEC Form D |
| Convertible Note | Jul 2025 | $9.8M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Nuance Labs, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Edward ZhangExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Fangchang MaExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Karren YangExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
South Park Commons 
Accel 
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How Nuancelabs hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Nuancelabs scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 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
News
Seattle's Nuance Labs raises $50M to give AI models human expression and nuance
Founded in early 2025 by former Apple PhD researchers Fangchang Ma, Edward Zhang, and Karren Yang, the research lab is developing a single "full-duplex" foundation model designed to process and generate conversational cues simultaneously.
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3 ex-Apple researchers raised $50M to build AI avatars with more EQ
A startup bringing emotional intelligence and conversation to AI models has just raised $50 million.
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Why Define Ventures Backed Nuance Labs' $50M Series A - Define Ventures
Nuance Labs is building a foundation model for emotionally intelligent AI. Here's why we think it changes how patients talk to health care's front door.
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Ex-Apple PhDs raise $10M, choose Seattle to build an AI foundation model that understands emotion
One of the more intriguing aspects of Nuance Labs is that the nascent startup with big dreams decided to build in Seattle.
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This Seattle Startup Is Building The First Emotional AI
Founded by two ex-Apple PhDs, the Seattle-based startup has raised $10 million from Accel, South Park Commons and Lightspeed to train its own AI model, then ship a companion app.
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How Nuance Labs is Building AI's EQ
Accel's Seed investment in Nuance Labs, and how it's building realtime emotional intelligence for AI.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Nuancelabs over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
44
Postings analysed
10
Stack modernity
77/100AI adopter
Languages
Python30%
C10%
SQL10%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch40%
Accelerate20%
CUDA20%
SGLang20%
Databases
Apache Iceberg10%
Delta Lake10%
Cloud & platforms
vLLM40%
CUDA Toolkit20%
Spark10%
AI & ML
LLM50%
AWQ20%
GPTQ20%
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44 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$300k
Typical range
$225k – $500k
Open positions
9
8
Jobs
Senior
12.5%
Staff
75%
Principal
12.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $300k | $300k |
| Staff | 6 | $350k | $300k – $500k |
| Principal | 1 | $250k | $250k |
Highest paying role
Member of Technical Staff — RL Research (Experienced)
$500k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Nuancelabs
By role, level and city, against the market · 9 jobs with pay
People
Edward Zhang
Executive Officer, Director
Fangchang Ma
Executive Officer, Director
Karren Yang
Executive Officer
Nnamdi Iregbulem
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
70/100
Growing
Open positions
9
2 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
16 days
faster than 58% 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.
AI/ML
25% ▼
Legal
25% ▲
Marketing
25% ▲
Operations
25% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Speculative Decoding to stack
Sep 2026
Added Model Distillation to stack
Sep 2026
Added KV Cache to stack
Sep 2026
Added RLAIF to stack
Sep 2026
Added Reward Modeling to stack
Sep 2026
Added LLM Evaluation to stack
Sep 2026
Added NCCL to stack
Aug 2026
Added Megatron-LM to stack
Aug 2026
Added HPC to stack
Aug 2026
Added FSDP to stack
Aug 2026
Added PPO to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Seattle
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Wilmington
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HQ
Seattle
United States
Engineering / R&D
Seattle
9 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 78% engineering 50-200 est. staff $331k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Legal, Operations
Jobs
$250k – $350k per year • In office • PhD • Seattle
vLLM
RLHF
Multimodal AI
Synthetic Data
DPO
PPO
GRPO
Post-training
RLAIF
Reward Modeling
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$300k – $500k per year • In office • PhD • Seattle
vLLM
Fine-tuning
RLHF
Multimodal AI
Synthetic Data
DPO
PPO
GRPO
Post-training
RLAIF
Reward Modeling
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$200k – $300k per year • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Seattle
Python
vLLM
CUDA Toolkit
Quantization
Multimodal AI
Knowledge Distillation
Diffusion Models
SGLang
AWQ
GPTQ
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
Accelerate
PyTorch
LLM
CUDA
Triton
Speculative Decoding
KV Cache
Model Distillation
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$250k – $350k per year • In office • Seattle
Python
vLLM
CUDA Toolkit
Quantization
Multimodal AI
Knowledge Distillation
Diffusion Models
SGLang
AWQ
GPTQ
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
Accelerate
PyTorch
LLM
CUDA
Triton
Post-training
Speculative Decoding
KV Cache
Model Distillation
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$200k – $300k per year • In office • Seattle
C
FFmpeg
Databases
Apache Iceberg
Delta Lake
AI/ML
Spark
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
Ray
Pre-training
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$300k – $400k per year • In office • Seattle
DeepSpeed
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
LLM
Synthetic Data
Post-training
Megatron-LM
FSDP
NCCL
DevOps
HPC
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$200k – $250k per year • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Seattle
Multimodal AI
Diffusion Models
PyTorch
LLM
Post-training
LLM Evaluation
Apply