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Funding and backers

Total raised
$59.5M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$54M
Series B · Dec 2025 · 10 mo ago
Team
80
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +21% in a year
Hiring now
43
+7 posted in 30 days
Backers
6
Y Combinator, Kleiner Perkins
The money's age
Fresh money
10 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
37/100
hiring for its size, a new city, 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 2, 2025 Raised a round Series B $54M Jun 12, 2024 Partnership TraceAir and PermitFlow Partner to Transform Homebuilding and Construction Workflows · PRNewswire May 8, 2023 Raised a round Seed $5.5M · businesswire Jan 2022 Went through Y Combinator 2021 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Dec 2025 $54M — morningstar.com
Seed May 2023 $5.5M — businesswire
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How PermitFlow hires

Truth index
A 93/100
Median time to fill
99 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
8%
Reposted roles
0%

PermitFlow scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 40 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 8% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 99 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

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 3

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Overview

PermitFlow is a construction technology company that builds AI-powered software to research permit requirements, prepare applications and track building permits for general contractors, developers and other builders. Founded in 2021, it sells to commercial and national accounts and hires machine learning engineers, sales engineers, account executives and customer success managers. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York, United States.

News

News AlleyWatch 10 months ago
PermitFlow Raises $54M to Cut Permit Approval Times from Months to Days
When 77% of developers face permitting delays and San Francisco takes 33 months just to approve projects, the $1.6T construction industry has a pre-construction problem. PermitFlow just raised $54M from Accel to solve it with AI agents that have already a
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Press release PRNewswire 2 years ago
TraceAir and PermitFlow Partner to Transform Homebuilding and Construction Workflows
/PRNewswire/ -- TraceAir, a leading provider of site intelligence software for homebuilders and land developers, today announced a strategic partnership with...
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News ycombinator 2 years ago
PermitFlow: Construction's AI Platform Y Combinator
Construction's AI Platform. Founded in 2021 by Samuel Lam, PermitFlow has 80 employees based in New York City. PermitFlow is hiring for 6 roles in operations and sales.
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News Pulse 2.0 3 years ago
PermitFlow: $5.5 Million Raised For Streamlining Permit Applications For Builders
PermitFlow - a construction permit application and management software for builders and owners - announced it has raised a $5.5 million seed round led by Initialized Capital
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Press release businesswire 3 years ago
PermitFlow Closes $5.5 Million Seed Round to Automate Construction Permitting
PermitFlow, a construction permit application and management software for builders and owners, announced today it has raised a $5.5 million seed round led by...
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News YahooFinance 3 years ago
PermitFlow advances construction permitting automation with $5.5M in new capital
PermitFlow, a San Jose-based startup developing software for developers and general contractors to streamline the construction permit application and management process, secured $5.5 million in seed funding. The round, which closed in January, was led by
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at PermitFlow over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
50
Postings analysed
57
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript5%
JavaScript5%
Node JS4%
Python4%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js5%
FAISS2%
Lightning Web Components2%
PyTorch2%
Databases
PostgreSQL5%
BigQuery2%
ElasticSearch2%
Google BigQuery2%
Cloud & platforms
OpenAI100%
Figma9%
GCP4%
AWS2%
AI & ML
LLM9%
Claude4%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$250k
Typical range
$14k – $375k
Open positions
43
38 Jobs
Junior 7.9%
Middle 18.4%
Senior 23.7%
Staff 36.8%
Principal 7.9%
Architect 5.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 3 $125k $14k – $130k
Middle 7 $220k $14k – $250k
Senior 9 $250k $210k – $375k
Staff 14 $275k $100k – $350k
Principal 3 $300k $285k – $300k
Architect 2 $265k $250k – $280k
Highest paying role Commercial Sales Manager $375k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at PermitFlow By role, level and city, against the market · 43 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
67/100
Growing
Open positions
43
4 opened / 8 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
83 days
faster than 16% 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.
Sales
17% ▲
HR
14% ▼
Leadership
10% ▲
Product
10% ▼
Design
10% ▼
Marketing
10% ▲
Actively hiring for Sales (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Ontario Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack Sep 2026
New location: Panama Sep 2026
New location: Singapore Sep 2026
Added X (Twitter) to stack Sep 2026
Added HubSpot to stack Sep 2026
Added Stripe to stack Sep 2026
Added QuickBooks to stack Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack Sep 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack Sep 2026
Added Empire to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
New York
New York United States
HQ
33 open roles 24 posted in 90 days 18% engineering 3% remote 200-500 est. staff $244k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Sales, Backend
seen since Dec 2025 job postings

Jobs

$250k – $300k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • New York
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI
Human-in-the-Loop
Context Engineering
LLM Evaluation
Tool Use
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$175k – $250k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • New York
Python
Weaviate
Pinecone
FAISS
ElasticSearch
AI/ML
Claude
AI Agents
NLP
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
RAG
OpenAI
Hugging Face
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
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$180k – $280k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • New York
AI Agents
OpenAI
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$180k – $280k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • New York
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI
Human-in-the-Loop
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$200k – $250k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • New York
AI Agents
OpenAI
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$180k – $280k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • New York
AI Agents
OpenAI
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$165k – $215k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • New York
SQL
Snowflake
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude
dbt
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI
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$250k – $300k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • New York
AI Agents
OpenAI
Design
Figma
Management
Linear
Notion
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$240k – $285k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 9+ years exp • New York
AI Agents
OpenAI
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$230k – $285k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • New York
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI
Human-in-the-Loop
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$200k – $275k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • New York
AI Agents
OpenAI
Design
Figma
Management
Linear
Notion
Apply
$160k – $210k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • New York
AI Agents
OpenAI
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Financials

Total raised
$59.5M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2025 $54M Details
Seed 2023 $5.5M Details