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Funding and backers

Total raised
$251.1M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$125M
Series C · Apr 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
472
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +48% in a year
Hiring now
22
+5 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
8VC, Activant Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
30 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
19/100
hiring for its size, a new city
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
2025 Team of 472 was 318 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Apr 9, 2024 Raised a round Series C $125M · led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 · FreightWaves Feb 4, 2022 Raised a round Venture round $115M · led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 · sandiegounion-tribune Jul 18, 2018 Raised a round Venture round $7M · SEC Form D Dec 21, 2017 Raised a round Venture round $4.1M · SEC Form D 2015 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series C Apr 2024 $125M SoftBank Vision Fund 2 lead FreightWaves
Venture round Feb 2022 $115M SoftBank Vision Fund 2 lead sandiegounion-tribune
Venture round Jul 2018 $7M — SEC Form D
Venture round Dec 2017 $4.1M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Platform Science, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Smolek AnthonyExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
John C Kennedy IiiExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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How Platform Science hires

Truth index
B 78/100
Median time to fill
73 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
67%
Reposted roles
0%

Platform Science scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 67% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 73 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: 2 · green card filings: 2

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Overview

Platform Science is a transportation technology company headquartered in San Diego, California, and was founded in 2015. The company provides a connected vehicle platform that offers fleet management solutions, including telematics, electronic logging device compliance, and a marketplace for third-party driver applications. It serves large-scale commercial trucking fleets and original equipment manufacturers by integrating software directly into heavy-duty vehicles to streamline logistics and data collection.

News

News YahooFinance 4 months ago
Relay Payments snags its latest partner: Platform Science
Relay Payments has signed a deal to have its services available through Platform Science. The post Relay Payments snags its latest partner: Platform Science appeared first on FreightWaves.
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News relaypayments.com 4 months ago
Relay Payments Adds Platform Science to its 300+ Integrations to Streamline Driver Experience and Combat Fuel Fraud
Relay Payments now accepted for Diesel & DEF across TA, Petro Stopping Centers, and TA Express locations nationwide.
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Press release PRNewswire 4 months ago
Relay Payments Adds Platform Science to its 300+ Integrations to Streamline Driver Experience and Combat Fuel Fraud
/PRNewswire/ -- Relay Payments, a leading digital payments platform for the trucking and logistics industry, and Platform Science, a leading application...
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Press release PRNewswire 10 months ago
Trucker Path Now Available Through the Platform Science Virtual Vehicle Marketplace
/PRNewswire/ -- Trucker Path, providers of the most comprehensive and relied upon mobile app for North American truckers, today announced that its full suite...
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ATA, Platform Science Announce Corporate Partnership
Washington - Today, the American Trucking Associations announced a Corporate Partner Program Agreement with Platform Science.
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News Transport Topics 1 year ago
Platform Science CEO: Connectivity Could Transform Trucking - TT
This increased connectivity, enabled by greater data sharing, may be the next truly transformative shift in the trucking industry, said Jack Kennedy, Platform Science CEO and co-founder.
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News Transport Topics 2 years ago
Platform Science to Acquire Trimble's Fleet Telematics Units - TT
As part of the agreement, Trimble will take a 32.5% stake in Platform Science and receive a seat on Platform Science's board of directors.
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News law360 2 years ago
Platform Science Fights $19.3M Software Patent Verdict
Platform Science Inc. has urged a California federal judge to erase a jury's verdict that it owes $19.3 million to Qualcomm spinoff Omnitracs LLC for infringing its fleet management software patent, arguing that the verdict is improper and that the court
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News Transport Topics 2 years ago
Truck Software Developer Platform Science Raises $125M - TT
Platform Science raised $125 million in capital to accelerate the launch of its software platform with additional truck manufacturers, a spokesperson for the company said April 16.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Platform Science over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
111
Postings analysed
29
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
JavaScript66%
TypeScript48%
Java34%
Kotlin31%
Frameworks & libraries
Angular31%
React.js28%
Selenium21%
JUnit17%
Databases
MySQL34%
PostgreSQL31%
ElasticSearch28%
Redis21%
Cloud & platforms
AWS59%
Azure48%
GCP45%
Kubernetes31%
AI & ML
Claude17%
LLM3%
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Full Platform Science tech stack 111 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

People

Smolek Anthony
Executive Officer
John C Kennedy Iii
Executive Officer, Director
Chris Sultemeier
Director
Will O'donnell
Director
Jacob Medwell
Director
Jake Fields
Director
Tracy Black
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data

Growth

Hiring Momentum
74/100
Growing
Open positions
22
5 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
77 days
faster than 17% 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.
Product
19% ▲
Backend
14% ▼
QA
14% ▼
DevOps
10% ▲
Design
10% ▼
Operations
10% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Brazil Sep 2026
New location: Belgium Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack Sep 2026
Added Tableau to stack Sep 2026
Added Marketo to stack Sep 2026
Added HubSpot to stack Sep 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack Sep 2026
Added PKI to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack Sep 2026
Added UML to stack Sep 2026
Added SOAP to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
12
Hiring now
4
Countries
8
Busiest office
San Diego
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San Diego United States
HQ
Minnetonka, MN
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92121
seen since Jun 2026 company site, careers board, job postings
Londrina Brazil
Engineering / R&D
Londrina
8 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 13% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, Product, Data Science
seen since Mar 2026 careers board, job postings
Chennai India
Engineering / R&D
Chennai
6 open roles 100% engineering 33% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend
seen since Jun 2025 careers board, job postings
Oldenzaal Netherlands
Regional office
Oldenzaal
1 open roles 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Backend
seen since Jan 2026 careers board, job postings
Leuven Belgium
Regional office
Leuven
1-10 est. staff
seen since Jun 2026 careers board
São Paulo Brazil
Regional office
São Paulo
careers board
Warsaw Poland
Regional office
Warsaw
careers board
Lille France
Regional office
Lille
careers board
Campinas Brazil
Regional office
Campinas
careers board
Murcia Spain
Regional office
Murcia
careers board
Minnetonka United States
Regional office
Minnetonka, MN
seen since Sep 2026 careers board
Sliedrecht Netherlands
Regional office
Sliedrecht
careers board

Jobs

In office • Londrina
JavaScript
Java
Kotlin
TypeScript
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
RabbitMQ
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
Frontend
GraphQL
Angular
DevOps
Rest API
Terraform
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Management
n8n
Zapier
Scrum
Kanban
Apply
≈ $92k – $224k per year (Estimated) • In office • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Belgium
Apply
≈ $39k – $108k per year (Estimated) • In office • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Brazil
Python
Go
Bash
Cursor
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
OpenAI Codex
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
GitHub Actions
Terragrunt
cert-manager
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
FinOps
GitHub
IAM
Linux
DNS
Cybersecurity
Okta
Crowdstrike
Zscaler
Wiz
SOC 2
Zero Trust
Least Privilege
Cloudflare WAF
PKI
Apply
≈ $39k – $108k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Brazil
Python
Go
Bash
Cursor
Claude Code
AI Agents
OpenAI Codex
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
GitHub Actions
Terragrunt
cert-manager
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
FinOps
IAM
Linux
DNS
Cybersecurity
Okta
Crowdstrike
Zscaler
Wiz
Zero Trust
Least Privilege
Cloudflare WAF
PKI
Apply
≈ $43k – $106k per year (Estimated) • In office • Londrina
JavaScript
Tailwind CSS
React.js
Radix UI
shadcn/ui
Apply
In office • Londrina
Python
Java
Kotlin
Claude
Mobile
JUnit
DevOps
GCP
GitHub Actions
CircleCI
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
AWS
QA
TestNG
Selenium
JMeter
Cypress
Playwright
Postman
Rest-Assured
Pytest
k6
Apply
≈ $47k – $105k per year (Estimated) • In office • Londrina
JavaScript
Java
Kotlin
TypeScript
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
RabbitMQ
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
Frontend
Angular
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Management
n8n
Apply
In office • Londrina
Python
Edge AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Azure
AWS
Linux
Analytics
Power BI
Domo
Apply
≈ $35k – $93k per year (Estimated) • In office • Londrina
Scrum
Kanban
Apply
≈ $37k – $98k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Brazil) • Londrina
Apply
≈ $58k – $99k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Oldenzaal
JavaScript
TypeScript
C#
Angular
DevOps
GitHub Actions
GitHub
Analytics
Informatica
Management
Confluence
Jira
Agile
Scrum
UML
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≈ $20k – $50k per year (Estimated) • Remote (India) • 6+ years exp • Chennai
JavaScript
Java
TypeScript
SQL
Spring Boot
Frontend
Angular
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
AWS
SOAP
Management
Agile
Scrum
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$251.1M
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series C 2024 $125M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $115M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 $7M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2017 $4.1M Details