PubNub
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$108M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$65M
Venture round · Nov 2021 · 4 yr ago
Hiring now
6
open roles
Backers
4
Cisco Investments, Relay Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
59 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
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
Nov 4, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $65M · TechCrunch
Apr 9, 2019
Raised a round Venture round $23M · PRNewswire
Jul 1, 2015
Raised a round Venture round $20M · TechCrunch
Oct 3, 2014
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Create Your Own Startup Metrics Dashboard
Sep 27, 2012
On the Hacker News front page MMO xkcd WebSockets fixed by PubNub · 123 points
Jun 2010
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
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Nov 2021 | $65M | — | TechCrunch |
| Venture round | Apr 2019 | $23M | — | PRNewswire |
| Venture round | Jul 2015 | $20M | — | TechCrunch |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Cisco Investments 
Relay Ventures 
Sapphire Ventures 
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How PubNub hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
PubNub scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% 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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Overview
PubNub is a platform for building and operating real-time interactive apps for mobile, web, and IoT devices that are lightning-fast, reliable, and scalable. Whether businesses need chat, geolocation and dispatch, IoT device control, multi-user collaboration, or any other real-time functionality, we help bring it all to life easily, securely, and seamlessly. Over 2000 companies worldwide choose PubNub because of our real-time technology expertise and ability to help their customers feel more connected to one another, the brand, and product experience.
News
Building AI Agents got easier; managing them didn't: Managing agent sprawl with Blocks Enterprise
When you can build an agent with nothing but an IDE and a dream, building the agents is the easy part. Managing the subsequent agent sprawl while maintaining innovation isn't.
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The complete guide to real-time streaming vs batch for agentic workflows
Use streaming when stale state can change the next action. Use batch when the work is deterministic and replayable. Most production agentic workflows need both.
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Your coding agent spends 26,000 tokens before it reads your prompt: Comparing MCP and CLI
AI adoption for coding has reached an all-time high, but there's a bottleneck nobody budgeted for. Explore what MCP servers, CLIs, and skill files actually cost you before an agent does any work, and a benchmarking measure using tooling from Blocks.ai (po
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Meet the new Debug Console in Portal
Use the new Debug Console in PubNub Portal to test, inspect, and manage keyset features without leaving the admin UI.
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Real-Time Infrastructure for Support Ticket Queues
Learn how PubNub powers ticketing systems with live ticket queues, Presence, and event hooks under 100ms.
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Real-Time Infrastructure for Support Ticket Queues
Learn how PubNub powers ticketing systems with live ticket queues, Presence, and event hooks under 100ms.
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Reference architecture: Real-time data for agentic workflows
Learn how to design agentic workflows with real-time data, freshness tiers, PubNub channels, replay, and auditability across agents, apps, and verifiers.
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Reference architecture: Real-time data for agentic workflows
Learn how to design agentic workflows with real-time data, freshness tiers, PubNub channels, replay, and auditability across agents, apps, and verifiers.
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Customer Service Platforms Need Real-time Engagement
Person-centric CX fails when agents and AI lack a shared live timeline. Learn how to power customer engagement platforms with real-time engagement.
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Customer Service Platforms Need Real-time Engagement
Person-centric CX fails when agents and AI lack a shared live timeline. Learn how to power customer engagement platforms with real-time engagement.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at PubNub over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
12
Postings analysed
5
Stack modernity
85/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
TypeScript
Rust
Databases
Amazon Aurora
DynamoDB
Redis
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
Kubernetes
AWS
AI & ML
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Full PubNub tech stack
12 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
52/100
Stable
Open positions
6
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
86 days
faster than 16% 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.
Marketing
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Added TypeScript to stack
Sep 2026
Added Reddit to stack
Sep 2026
Added LLM to stack
Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack
Sep 2026
Added Discord to stack
Sep 2026
Added AI Agents to stack
Sep 2026
Added Go to stack
Sep 2026
Added Dropbox to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
8
Hiring now
2
Countries
8
Busiest office
London
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London
United Kingdom
Remote hub
PubNub London
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% remote
hires for Marketing
London EC3M 1JP
Katowice
Poland
Remote hub
PubNub Katowice
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% remote
hires for Marketing
Al. Rozdzienskiego 1A,
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Regional office
PubNub Hong Kong
Tokyo
Japan
Regional office
PubNub Japan
Seoul
South Korea
Regional office
PubNub S. Korea
Jakarta
Indonesia
Regional office
PubNub Indonesia
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam
Regional office
PubNub Vietnam
Singapore
Singapore
Regional office
PubNub Singapore