Poetiq
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Total raised
$45.8M
1 round on record
Latest round
$45.8M
Seed · Jan 2026 · 9 mo ago
Team
6
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
The money's age
Fresh money
9 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
35/100
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
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
10
best: 25 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Jan 2026 | $45.8M | — | marketwatch.com |
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1
H-1B filings in 12 months
$153k
Median offered salary
0
Open roles in United States
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Software developers
1
In the register as Poetiq Inc., Los Altos, CA
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Overview
Poetiq is an AI research company building a self-optimizing system for reasoning, treating the language model as one component alongside code, prompts, search strategies and tool use. It describes its aim as the fastest path to safe superintelligence through better reasoning and hires AI engineers and scientists. The company is headquartered in Los Altos, California, United States.
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A Poetiq Perspective on Recursive Self-Improvement
Recursive Self-Improvement is the fastest path to superintelligence, because its gains compound at every step. We make the term precise, map the approaches being called RSI today, and explain why improving the system rather than the weights lets the loop
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Poetiq CEO：递归式自我改进是AI领域的终极目标_腾讯新闻
Ian Fischer 是 AI 新锐 Poetiq 联席 CEO兼具连续创业者与 DeepMind 资深研究员双重身份他早年创办跨平台开发公司 ApportableiOS 游戏转 Android 平台后被 Google 收购2015 年加入 DeepMind 并深耕十年专注大模型推理与系统优化与搭档 Shumeet Baluja 共同发现大模型复杂推理瓶颈2025 年 6 月Ian Fisc...
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Poetiq nabs $45.8M in seed funding for its LLM-enhancing 'meta-system'
Poetiq nabs $45.8M in seed funding for its LLM-enhancing 'meta-system' - SiliconANGLE
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Poetiq: $45.8 Million Seed Funding Raised To Boost LLM Reasoning
Poetiq, a startup founded by former Google DeepMind scientists, has emerged from stealth with $45.8 million in Seed funding and says its
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Poetiq Raises $45.8M for AI Meta-System, Surpasses Top LLMs on Industry Benchmark
Poetiq, developer of an AI meta-system that makes LLMs work better, announced today that it raised $45.8 million in Seed funding co-led by FYRFLY Venture Partners and Surface Ventures with Y Combinator, 468 Capital, Operator Collective, Hico Ventures, and
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Poetiq Raises $45.8M for AI Meta-System, Surpasses Top LLMs on Industry Benchmark
/PRNewswire/ -- Poetiq, developer of an AI meta-system that makes LLMs work better, announced today that it raised $45.8 million in Seed funding co-led by...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Poetiq over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
4
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
85/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
AI & ML
LLM
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
21/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
0
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
206 days
faster than 6% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Los Altos
United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff
Financials
Total raised
$45.8M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2026 | $45.8M | Details |