Primer
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$153.9M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$100M
Series C · May 2026 · 4 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
18
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
7
Expa, Elevate Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
4 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
47/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news, 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
May 19
Raised a round Series C $100M
Oct 31, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $2M · SEC Form D
Dec 13, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $1.9M · SEC Form D
Oct 19, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $50M · TechCrunch
2019
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.76%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | May 2026 | $100M | — | businesswire.com |
| Venture round | Oct 2025 | $2M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Dec 2023 | $1.9M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Oct 2021 | $50M | — | TechCrunch |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Primer Global, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Gene CohenExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Mark NaufelExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Connor NailExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Alex SlaughterExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Expa 
Elevate Ventures 
Perot Jain 
Soma Capital 
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How Primer hires
Truth index
C 63/100
Ghost roles
61%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Primer scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 18 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 61% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. 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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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Primer over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
10
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node JS
Frameworks & libraries
React.js
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI & ML
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$45k
Typical range
$35k – $68k
Open positions
9
8
Jobs
Junior
62.5%
Staff
37.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 5 | $35k | $35k – $45k |
| Staff | 3 | $60k | $60k – $68k |
Highest paying role
Teacher (Primer Leader) | Florida
$68k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Primer
By role, level and city, against the market · 9 jobs with pay
People
Gene Cohen
Executive Officer
Mark Naufel
Executive Officer, Director
Connor Nail
Executive Officer
Alex Slaughter
Executive Officer
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
65/100
Growing
Open positions
18
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
100 days
faster than 14% 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.
Management
25% ▼
Education
25% ▲
Early Careers
25% ▼
Finance
13% ▲
Sales
13% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Dothan
Sep 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack
Sep 2026
New location: San Antonio
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Sep 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack
Sep 2026
Added Claude to stack
Sep 2026
Added Salesforce to stack
Sep 2026
Added HubSpot to stack
Sep 2026
Added WebRTC to stack
Sep 2026
Added Kubernetes to stack
Sep 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack
Sep 2026
Added CI/CD to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
11
Hiring now
10
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
10 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 10% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Early Careers, Backend, Product
Birmingham
United States
Corporate office
3 open roles 10-50 est. staff $47k Avg Salary
hires for Education, Administrative
Tampa
United States
Corporate office
3 open roles 10-50 est. staff $49k Avg Salary
hires for Education, Administrative
Fort Lauderdale
United States
Corporate office
3 open roles 10-50 est. staff $49k Avg Salary
hires for Education, Administrative
Miami
United States
Corporate office
3 open roles 10-50 est. staff $49k Avg Salary
hires for Education, Administrative
Montgomery
United States
Corporate office
3 open roles 10-50 est. staff $47k Avg Salary
hires for Education, Administrative
Huntsville
United States
Corporate office
3 open roles 10-50 est. staff $47k Avg Salary
hires for Education, Administrative
Scottsdale
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $52k Avg Salary
hires for Early Careers
San Antonio
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $35k Avg Salary
hires for Education
Dothan
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $60k Avg Salary
hires for Education
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