Ought
LLM & Generative AI · Artificial Intelligence
1hiring now · open roles
$3.8Mlatest round · Venture round · Feb 2020 · 6 yr ago
1backers · StartX
1-10team · employees, estimated range
Overview
Ought is a research laboratory studying how to decompose reasoning into supervisable steps. Its work on process supervision led to the research assistant Elicit. The organisation focuses on making machine reasoning transparent.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$3.8M
1 round on record
Latest round
$3.8M
Venture round · Feb 2020 · 6 yr ago
Team
1-10
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
1
StartX
The money's age
Long since its last round
80 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
in the news
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
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Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
4
best: 3 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Feb 2020 | $3.8M | — | ought.org |
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
54/100
Stable
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
14 days
faster than 69% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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.
Administrative
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Financials
Total raised
$3.8M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | $3.8M | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Ought over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
1
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
85/100
Cloud & platforms
Windows
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Countries
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