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Products
People
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Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$7M
1 round on record
Latest round
$7M
Series D · Jul 2012 · 14 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
15
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
DAG Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
171 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
5/100
hiring for its size
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
Jan 26 New executive Picarro Appoints Haavard Oestensen Chief Commercial and Product Officer to Lead Market-Focused Growth and Launch of Fenceline Solution · YahooFinance Apr 16, 2025 Launched Picarro Unveils PI5131-i for Precise Isotopic Analysis of Nitrous Oxide in the Field and Lab · YahooFinance Jul 25, 2012 Raised a round Series D $7M · led by Focus Ventures and · PE Hub Dec 2001 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.37%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series D Jul 2012 $7M Focus Ventures and lead, DAG Ventures, NTT Electronics, Mingxin China Growht Fund PE Hub
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How Picarro hires

Truth index
A 87/100
Median time to fill
160 days
Ghost roles
13%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Picarro scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 15 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 13% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 160 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

#1,649 of 8,228 sponsors
8 ▲ 60%
H-1B filings in 12 months
4
Green card filings
$164k
Median offered salary
Who they sponsor
Software developers
4
Industrial engineers
2
Environmental scientists and specialists, including health
1
1 more occupations and the salary for eachVisa pass · 90 credits
In the register as Picarro, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (+1 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing Apr 28, 2026 · Visa details by country

Overview

User account menu. From advancing research to minimizing risk and increasing operational efficiency Empowering the world with timely, trusted and actionable intelligence Trusted by companies across industries.

Connections

List
Graph
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 investors1
DAG VenturesVia a fund
62 portfolio companies: Zynga, Zuora, We Are FINE and 59 more

News

News YahooFinance 10 months ago
Picarro Appoints Haavard Oestensen Chief Commercial and Product Officer to Lead Market-Focused Growth and Launch of Fenceline Solution
Picarro, Inc., a global leader in real-time emissions monitoring and advanced gas analysis solutions, today announced the appointment of Haavard Oestensen as Chief Commercial and Product Officer. In this role, Oestensen will lead Picarro
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News FinanzNachrichten.de 1 year ago
Picarro, Inc.: Picarro Launches the P-Cubed Mobile App, Putting Smarter Natural Gas Leak Investigations in Field Technicians' Hands
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Picarro, Inc., a global leader in Network Intelligence and methane emissions reduction solutions, today announced the release of the
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News YahooFinance 1 year ago
Picarro Unveils PI5131-i for Precise Isotopic Analysis of Nitrous Oxide in the Field and Lab
Picarro Inc., a global leader in gas concentration and stable isotope analyzers, today introduced the PI5131-i Analyzer, a cutting-edge mid-infrared (mid-IR) analyzer designed for fast, high-precision, simultaneous measurements of site-specific and bulk δ
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News CNBC 14 years ago
PG&E To Expand Deployment Of Picarro's Cutting-Edge Gas Leak Detection Technology
PG&E will deploy six Picarro Surveyor devices for vehicle-mounted, super-sensitive gas leak detection throughout its Northern and Central California service area- making PG&E the first utility in the world to roll out the innovative technology.
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News PE Hub 14 years ago
Picarro Raises $7m
Picarro, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based developer of instruments for measuring air quality, has raised a $7 million Series D round led by Focus Ventures and joined by DAG Ventures, NTT Electronics and Mingxin China Growht Fund. The announcement is below: Pic
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News ZDNET 14 years ago
Picarro sensors can read 'nature's bar code'
Technology used for tracking carbon emissions level can be allowed to the challenge of detecting and confirming food origins.
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News PE Hub 15 years ago
New CFO for Picarro
Picarro, a provider of instruments for carbon and water cycle measurements, has appointed Laura Perrone as chief financial officer. Perrone most recently served as senior vice president and CFO of Omneon, a maker of technology products for digital media d
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Picarro over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
92
Postings analysed
21
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
Python38%
C++14%
Go10%
TypeScript10%
Frameworks & libraries
Asyncio10%
Pytest10%
NumPy10%
React.js10%
Databases
PostgreSQL10%
TimescaleDB10%
SQLite5%
InfluxDB5%
Cloud & platforms
Linux29%
GitHub24%
AWS14%
Figma14%
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Full Picarro tech stack 92 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$165k
Typical range
$120k – $240k
Open positions
14
14 Jobs
Junior 14.3%
Middle 7.1%
Senior 57.1%
Staff 7.1%
Architect 14.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 2 $138k $125k – $150k
Middle 1 $170k $170k
Senior 8 $170k $120k – $240k
Staff 1 $160k $160k
Architect 2 $215k $190k – $240k
Highest paying role Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) $240k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Picarro By role, level and city, against the market · 14 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
34/100
Slowing
Open positions
15
1 opened / 8 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
161 days
faster than 7% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 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
33% ▼
Data Science
8% ▼
Leadership
8% ▼
Product
8% ▼
Finance
8% ▲
Legal
8% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Statistical Process Control to stack Oct 2026
Added FMEA to stack Oct 2026
Added Design of Experiments to stack Oct 2026
Added Mass Spectrometry to stack Oct 2026
Added CAPA to stack Oct 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack Sep 2026
Added Unix to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
6
Hiring now
2
Countries
5
Busiest office
Santa Clara
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Santa Clara United States
HQ
US - Santa Clara
11 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 36% engineering 9% remote 200-500 est. staff $185k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Product, Finance
3105 Patrick Henry Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA
seen since Jul 2025 company site, careers board, job postings
Eindhoven Netherlands
Sales office
Netherlands
1 open roles 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Science & Research
5612 AR Eindhoven
seen since Feb 2026 company site, job postings
Zhubei Taiwan
Regional office
Taiwan
Guangming 6th Rd., Zhubei City,, Hsinchu County 30264, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
company site
Chaoyang China
Regional office
China
Room 905 Building A, Sinolight Plaza No. 4 Qiyang Road,, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102 P.R. China
company site
Milan Italy
Regional office
Italy
careers board
Northeast United States
Regional office
US - Northeast
careers board
Earlier presence
Houston, United States 1 open roles · last posting Mar 2026

Jobs

$180k – $240k per year · In office · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Santa Clara
Verilog
C
C++
VHDL
Embedded C
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≈ $50k – $114k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Master's Degree · Eindhoven
Mass Spectrometry
Apply
$125k – $140k per year · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Santa Clara
Figma
Management
Confluence
Jira
Agile
Scrum
Apply
$130k – $150k per year · In office · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Master's Degree · Santa Clara
Python
SQL
SciPy
Pandas
NumPy
Time Series
Interpretability
DevOps
AWS
Analytics
Matplotlib
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$110k – $125k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree
Figma
Management
Confluence
Jira
Agile
Scrum
Apply
$170k – $185k per year · In office · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Santa Clara
Agile
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$140k – $180k per year · In office · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Santa Clara
Python
C++
CI/CD
Git
Docker
Linux
Apply
$140k – $160k per year · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Santa Clara
Python
Go
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
TimescaleDB
InfluxDB
AI/ML
Cursor
Time Series
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
GitHub
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$130k – $170k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree
JavaScript
TypeScript
AI Agents
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
React.js
Design
Figma
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$7M
Latest round
Series D
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series D 2012 $7M Details