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Funding and backers

Total raised
$47M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$30M
Series B · Dec 2025 · 10 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
32
+19 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Y Combinator, 8VC
The money's age
Fresh money
10 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
69/100
hiring for its size, a new city, 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
Dec 15, 2025 Raised a round Series B $30M · led by Radical Ventures · Pulse 2.0 Jun 23, 2025 Raised a round Series A $17M · Pulse 2.0 Jun 2023 Went through Y Combinator 2022 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Dec 2025 $30M Radical Ventures lead Pulse 2.0
Series A Jun 2025 $17M — Pulse 2.0
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How Outset hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Median time to fill
26 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Outset scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 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. Its roles close in a median of 26 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

Overview

Get the depth of qualitative interviews at the speed and scale of a survey with the power of AI-moderated research. Make better, faster decisions for your business.

News

News outset-solutions.com 1 month ago
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News E! Online 7 months ago
Scarlett Johansson's The Outset Has New Summer-Inspired Lip Colors, And We're Obsessed
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News Pulse 2.0 10 months ago
Outset: $30 Million Series B Raised To Advance AI-Native Customer Experience Management Platform
Outset has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Radical Ventures as the company moves beyond AI-moderated research studies into what it calls the world's first AI-native Customer Experience Management platform. The San Francisco-based com
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News Pulse 2.0 1 year ago
Outset: $17 Million Series A Raised For Helping Enterprises Scale
Outset, an AI-moderated research platform that provides the scale and speed of a survey with the depth of a one-to-one interview, announced that it has raised a $17 million Series A round to bring AI-based research to Fortune 500 enterprises. The funding
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News Pulse 2.0 2 years ago
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Outset is a new company that is transforming the qualitative research landscape by harnessing the power of ChatGPT to conduct in-depth interviews at scale. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Outset co-founder and CEO Aaron Cannon to learn more about the company.
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News New Atlas 3 years ago
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Outset over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
49
Postings analysed
17
Stack modernity
91/100AI adopter
Languages
Python41%
SQL35%
JavaScript24%
TypeScript18%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js18%
Django12%
Next.js12%
SGLang6%
Databases
PostgreSQL12%
Google BigQuery6%
Snowflake6%
Cloud & platforms
AWS29%
Figma12%
GitHub12%
SIEM12%
AI & ML
Claude24%
ChatGPT6%
LLM6%
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Full Outset tech stack 49 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$245k
Typical range
$110k – $350k
Open positions
30
23 Jobs
Junior 4.3%
Middle 21.7%
Senior 43.5%
Staff 13%
Architect 17.4%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $110k $110k
Middle 5 $200k $175k – $300k
Senior 10 $300k $220k – $350k
Staff 3 $300k $141k – $300k
Architect 4 $225k $185k – $300k
Highest paying role Enterprise Sales Manager $350k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Outset By role, level and city, against the market · 30 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
49/100
Stable
Open positions
32
5 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
30 days
faster than 43% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
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
25% ▲
HR
19% ▲
Marketing
14%
AI/ML
6% ▲
Management
6% ▼
DevOps
3% ▲
Actively hiring for Sales (+7 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: London Oct 2026
Added Threat Modeling to stack Oct 2026
Added Terraform to stack Oct 2026
Added SRE to stack Oct 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Oct 2026
Added SIEM to stack Oct 2026
Added Zero Trust to stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack Sep 2026
Added Notion to stack Sep 2026
Added Linear to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
30 open roles 34 posted in 90 days 30% engineering 3% remote 200-500 est. staff $252k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Marketing, AI/ML
seen since Feb 2026 job postings
New York United States
Sales office
14 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 7% engineering 7% remote 50-200 est. staff $263k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Marketing, Management
seen since Feb 2026 job postings
London United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $141k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
seen since Oct 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $131k – $245k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
SQL
Copilot
Cursor
Claude
ChatGPT
dbt
AI Agents
Analytics
Looker
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$180k – $220k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Claude
Robotics
Digital Twin
Design
Figma
Apply
$200k – $240k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • PhD • San Francisco
SQL
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
LLM
Machine Learning
Robotics
Digital Twin
Apply
$200k – $240k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
SQL
vLLM
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
SGLang
LLM Evaluation
Machine Learning
DevOps
Git
Robotics
Digital Twin
Apply
$200k – $230k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Apply
≈ $170k – $333k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
SQL
Apex
MuleSoft
Databases
Snowflake
Databricks
Google BigQuery
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
Rest API
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Fivetran
Management
Intercom
Apply
$210k – $300k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • San Francisco
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
AWS
SRE
Cybersecurity
Threat Modeling
SIEM
Apply
$145k – $195k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
Windows
Wi-Fi
Cybersecurity
Zero Trust
SIEM
Management
Linear
Notion
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$150k – $190k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • San Francisco • New York
Apply
$180k – $240k per year • Remote (EU) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
Django
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
WebRTC
AWS
Apply
$160k – $300k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
SQL
Django
Databases
PostgreSQL
DevOps
WebRTC
AWS
Apply
$160k – $300k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
WebRTC
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$47M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2025 $30M Details
Series A 2025 $17M Details