Overview
News
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$104M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$100M
Venture round · Jan 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
15
+5 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
500 Global, Aleph
The money's age
Long since its last round
57 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
38/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
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
Oct 2026 Formerly Placer Labs (placer.io) Sep 29 First role in Mexico Accounts Receivable Specialist Aug 11 First role in Israel Backend Engineer - Mobile Platform Nov 26, 2023 Released an app Placer.ai · App Store Jan 12, 2022 Raised a round Venture round $100M · Venturebeat Oct 24, 2018 Raised a round Venture round $4M · Venturebeat Sep 2018 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.5 ★
41 ratings
Hacker News stories
1
best: 24 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jan 2022 $100M — Venturebeat
Venture round Oct 2018 $4M — Venturebeat
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Placer Labs, Inc. its site
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How Placer hires

Truth index
B 80/100
Median time to fill
43 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
80%
Reposted roles
0%

Placer 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, 80% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 43 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

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Overview

Make smarter real estate decisions and close more deals with Placer.ai's location intelligence and foot traffic insights.

News

News Yahoo News 21 days ago
Placer County approves surf resort with five-acre lagoon, hotel and skate plaza
Placer County approved a new surf resort with a five-acre lagoon, hotel and action sports hub, moving the West Placer project closer to construction.
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News usnews.com 4 months ago
How Does Placer High School Rank Among America's Best High Schools?
Get information on Placer High School in Auburn, CA including enrollment, state testing assessments and student body breakdown.
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News USNews 4 months ago
Placer Elementary
Learn more about Placer Elementary here - See an overview of the school, get student population data, enrollment information, test scores and more.
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News Los Angeles Times 7 months ago
As malls and department stores fade, California's Ross and other discounters are booming
The company behind Ross Dress for Less and other bargain retailers are thriving as consumers look to save money.
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News BI RetailNews 7 months ago
How Gap brand's CEO has brought it back to relevance
Gap's global brand CEO, Mark Breitbard, has revitalized the brand through basics and partnerships like Katseye.
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News Commercial Observer 7 months ago
U.S. Mall Traffic Sees Significant Year-Over-Year Rise in February
Foot traffic across all types of U.S. malls - indoor, open-air and outlet - grew significantly in February, according to Placer.ai.
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News BI RetailNews 7 months ago
Steak 'n Shake bet big on RFK's MAHA movement. It's paying off.
Steak 'n Shake embraced RFK Jr.'s MAHA food philosophy - from beef tallow fries to bitcoin payments. The strategy appears to be boosting sales.
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News CNBC 8 months ago
What two of America's most popular gyms tell us about the 'K-shaped' economy
Life Time and Planet Fitness both reported strong revenue growth, but their outlooks showed the continued divergence between spending among higher and lower-income consumers.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Placer over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
55
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
Python62%
SQL38%
Kotlin15%
Swift15%
Frameworks & libraries
FastAPI15%
Flask8%
Hadoop8%
Databases
PostgreSQL15%
Delta Lake8%
Redis8%
Snowflake8%
Cloud & platforms
GCP54%
Databricks38%
Spark31%
AWS23%
AI & ML
LLM23%
Claude15%
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Full Placer tech stack 55 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$160k
Typical range
$90k – $240k
Open positions
9
7 Jobs
Middle 14.3%
Senior 71.4%
Architect 14.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 1 $155k $155k
Senior 5 $190k $110k – $240k
Architect 1 $160k $160k
Highest paying role Founding Engineer, Consumer Apps $240k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Placer By role, level and city, against the market · 9 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
85/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
15
6 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
39 days
faster than 33% 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.
Backend
24% ▲
Finance
18% ▲
AI/ML
12%
Analytics
12% ▲
HR
12% ▼
Marketing
12%
Activity Timeline
New location: Colombia Oct 2026
New location: Mexico City Oct 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack Oct 2026
Added A/B Testing to stack Oct 2026
Added Context Engineering to stack Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack Sep 2026
New location: Bogotá Sep 2026
New location: United States Sep 2026
Added Tool Use to stack Sep 2026
Added HubSpot to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
3
Busiest office
Austin
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Austin United States
HQ
Placer US
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 100% remote 50-200 est. staff $180k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, DevOps, Sales
seen since Mar 2025 job postings
Ramat Gan Israel
Remote hub
Placer IL
4 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 100% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, Data Science, Analytics
seen since Aug 2026 careers board, job postings
Bogotá Colombia
Placer US
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Finance
seen since Jul 2026 job postings

Jobs

$200k – $240k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Austin
Python
Kotlin
Swift
GCP
Analytics
A/B Testing
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$160k – $190k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 10+ years exp • United States
Python
TypeScript
SQL
FastAPI
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
LLM
Context Engineering
Agentic Workflows
Tool Use
Apply
≈ $68k – $158k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Israel) • 5+ years exp • Master's Degree • Ramat Gan
Python
pySpark
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
Copilot
Cursor
Spark
Claude Code
DevOps
Terraform
Git
Apply
$160k – $190k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 8+ years exp • United States
Databricks
AI/ML
Claude
Model Context Protocol
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
Human-in-the-Loop
Tool Use
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Apply
$190k – $210k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 5+ years exp • Austin
Python
Go
Ruby
PostgreSQL
Redis
RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Pulumi
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Atlantis
Google GKE
Apply
≈ $73k – $214k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Israel) • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Ramat Gan
JavaScript
Kotlin
TypeScript
Node JS
Swift
Objective-C
Spark
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
AWS
Apply
Remote (Israel) • Ramat Gan
Python
SQL
Scala
pySpark
Databases
Delta Lake
AI/ML
Hadoop
Spark
Airflow
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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≈ $73k – $216k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Israel) • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Ramat Gan
Python
Flask
FastAPI
pySpark
Databases
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
Spark
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
AWS
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Apply
$140k – $155k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 3+ years exp • United States
Python
SQL
Tableau
Power BI
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$104M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $100M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 $4M Details