Pareto

Machine Learning · AI Training Data & Annotation
1open role
$25latest round · Convertible Note · Nov 2023 · 3 yr ago
3backers · SoGal Ventures, MaC Venture Capital
33team · US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +154% in a year

Overview

Human data improves models, models lift people. Pareto advances the signal that keeps the loop turning.

Funding and backers

Total raised
$25
1 round on record
Latest round
$25
Convertible Note · Nov 2023 · 3 yr ago
Team
33
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +154% in a year
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
3
SoGal Ventures, MaC Venture Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
36 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
2025 Team of 33 was 13 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Nov 6, 2023 Raised a round Convertible Note $25 · SEC Form D 2020 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 3%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Convertible Note Nov 2023 $25 — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Pareto Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Xuechun YaoExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs

$150k – $180k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time
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Visa sponsorship

#1,900 of 8,998 sponsors
8 ▲ 60%
H-1B filings in 12 months
$157k
Median offered salary
1
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Other computer occupations
3
Computer and information research scientists
2
Software developers
2
1 more occupations and the salary for eachVisa pass · 90 credits
In the register as Pareto, Inc., San Francisco, CA (+2 more)
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
25/100
Slowing
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
42 days
faster than 33% 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.
Backend
100% ▼

Financials

Total raised
$25
Latest round
Convertible Note
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Convertible Note 2023 $25 Details

People

Xuechun Yao
Executive Officer, Director
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Pareto over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
8
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
80/100
Languages
Python
TypeScript
Cloud & platforms
Anthropic
AWS
Developer tools
Docker
Model Context Protocol
Practices & domains
Post-training
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Connections

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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
SoGal VenturesVia a fund
29 portfolio companies: Silicon Data, Blip, Kind Designs and 26 more
172 portfolio companies: Q-Factor, FundPanel, RDV Robotics and 169 more
Soma CapitalVia a fund
876 portfolio companies

News

News stepfun.com 2 months ago
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News artificialanalysis.ai 2 months ago
Step 5 Preview - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis Artificial Analysis
Analysis of StepFun's Step 5 Preview and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.
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News Unbiased 2 months ago
Pareto 26.9 Model Card
Pareto 26.9: five published benchmark scores. Measured task costs and a composite score have not been published for this release.
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News X (formerly Twitter) 2 months ago
Union Alpha (@unionalphaai) on X
Union Alpha is Pareto 26.9
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News The Economic Times 2 months ago
What is Pareto Principle? Definition of Pareto Principle, Pareto Principle Meaning
The Pareto Principle, or 80/20 rule, asserts that 80% of outcomes stem from 20% of causes. Introduced by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who noted that 80% of Italy
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News openrouter.ai 2 months ago
Pareto - API Pricing & Providers
Pareto is a multimodal composite model built for research, coding, and agentic workflows, while delivering frontier-level performance across a broad range of general-purpose tasks. $2.50 per million input tokens, $7.50 per million output tokens. 262,144 t
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News tradewindsnews.com 2 months ago
'Forget the 70s': VLCC boom puts offshore rigs in the shade at Pareto
This year 'is something truly unprecedented', head of research Eirik Haavaldsen says
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News arXiv.org 2 months ago
Occamy-1.0: Open Pareto-frontier 35B Intelligence for Co-work
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.11977: Occamy-1.0: Open Pareto-frontier 35B Intelligence for Co-work
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco United States
HQ
1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
seen since Aug 2026