Passage
passage.ai
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$1.3M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$610k
Venture round · Apr 2026 · 5 mo ago
Team
10
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
Hiring now
10
open roles
The money's age
Fresh money
5 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
45/100
a new city, in the news, fresh money
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
Apr 24
Raised a round Venture round $610k · SEC Form D
Sep 18, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $346k · SEC Form D
Sep 11, 2019
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Passage AI Customer Service Automation App on Zendesk Marketplace
Feb 15, 2018
Raised a round Venture round $295k · SEC Form D
2015
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Apr 2026 | $610k | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Sep 2020 | $346k | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Feb 2018 | $295k | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Passage Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Patrick MischExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Alex LinebrinkExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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How Passage hires
Truth index
C 58/100
Ghost roles
70%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Passage scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 10 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 70% look like ghost listings, 0% 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
Passage is a financial technology company that provides financial support helping deserving students pursue their dreams and ambitions, even when their parents lack the funds. It aims to dismantle barriers to opportunity by 2030 and hires finance managers, accountants, growth leads, business operations associates and acquisition coordinators. The company is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
News
Unprecedented: Scientists Have Built Miniature Brains That Experience The Passage Of Time
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Human brain organoids record the passage of time over multiple years
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Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on California's Alameda Creek
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zooL4nD3r demo - a Hugging Face Space by RiverRider
Enter a paragraph of text and pick one of the 961 community styles from the dropdown. The app rewrites your passage so it sounds like it was written by that community, and it also shows scores indi...
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Passage from Homer's Iliad discovered inside the abdomen of a Roman-era Egyptian mummy
A snippet of text from Homer's famous epic recounting the siege of Troy was apparently placed inside this body as part of the mummification process
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Crypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passage
Ship attacked by Iran after possibly falling for safe passage crypto scam.
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Iran Wants Bitcoin Payments From Oil Ships Seeking Hormuz Passage: FT
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Passage over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
30
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
86/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
SQL
TypeScript
Go
Frameworks & libraries
Django
React.js
Databases
BigQuery
Google BigQuery
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
GCP
Metabase
Apache Kafka
Google GKE
AI & ML
Claude
LLM
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30 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$84k
Typical range
$77k – $91k
Open positions
2
2
Jobs
Junior
50%
Senior
50%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $77k | $77k |
| Senior | 1 | $91k | $91k |
Highest paying role
Senior Accountant / Finance Manager
$91k
Normalized to USD per year
People
Patrick Misch
Executive Officer, Director
Alex Linebrink
Executive Officer, Director
Donald Layden Jr.
Director
Brent Rippe
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
63/100
Growing
Open positions
10
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
10/16/2026
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.
Analytics
33% ▼
Marketing
33% ▼
Industrial Engineering
33% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: New Delhi
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack
Sep 2026
Added Fivetran to stack
Sep 2026
Added Dimensional Modeling to stack
Sep 2026
Added Power BI to stack
Sep 2026
Added Metabase to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Added BigQuery to stack
Sep 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack
Aug 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack
Aug 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
3
Busiest office
Toronto
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United States
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Toronto
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Plant / site
10 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff $84k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Analytics, Finance
New Delhi
India
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Marketing
Jobs
≈ $58k – $104k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Toronto
Python
SQL
Django
Databases
PostgreSQL
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
dbt
AI Agents
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
GCP
Helm
Docker
Kubernetes
Google GKE
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Metabase
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≈ $93k – $171k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Toronto
Python
SQL
GraphQL
Analytics
Metabase
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