Shift5
Predictive Analytics · Industrial IoT (IIoT)
$180.5Mtotal raised · 7 rounds on record
3open roles
$153kmedian advertised pay
$75Mlatest round · Series C · Sep 2025 · 14 mo ago
Overview
Shift5 is a company that provides an observability platform for onboard operational technology (OT), bringing order to the complexity of onboard data in critical defense and transportation assets. Their solutions are designed to enhance the security, availability, safety, resilience, and reliability of fleets through real-time data access and observability. Shift5's services include predictive maintenance, cybersecurity, compliance, and GPS integrity, serving industries such as defense, aviation, and rail.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$180.5M
7 rounds on record
Latest round
$75M
Series C · Sep 2025 · 14 mo ago
Team
112
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Aug 2025
Hiring now
7
+3 posted in 30 days
Grants
$1.5M
2 grants · CORDIS
Backers
1
Insight Partners
The money's age
Due for its next round
14 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
17/100
hiring for its size
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
Oct 29
First executive search Director of Government Affairs
Sep 3, 2025
Raised a round Series C $75M · https://shift5.ioarticles/shift5-raises-75-million-series-c-to-scale-operational-intelligence-platfo...
2025
Team of 112 was 93 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Jun 8, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $33M · BnkInfoSecurity
Feb 8, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $50M · TechCrunch
Oct 12, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $20M · PRNewswire
May 1, 2020
Won a grant $1.5M · CORDIS
Dec 12, 2019
Won a grant $50k · CORDIS
Sep 12, 2019
Raised a round Seed $2.5M · PRNewswire
2019
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | Sep 2025 | $75M | — | https://shift5.ioarticles/shift5-raises-75-million-series-c-to-scale-operational-intelligence-platfo... |
| Venture round | Jun 2023 | $33M | — | BnkInfoSecurity |
| Venture round | Feb 2022 | $50M | — | TechCrunch |
| Venture round | Oct 2021 | $20M | — | PRNewswire |
| Grant | May 2020 | $1.5M | — | CORDIS |
| Grant | Dec 2019 | $50k | — | CORDIS |
| Seed | Sep 2019 | $2.5M | — | PRNewswire |
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Jobs
$255k – $280k per year · Remote (United States) · Nationals only · 10+ years exp
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AWS
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Cybersecurity
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CMMC
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$143k per year · Remote (likely United States) · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree
Linux
Unix
TCP/IP
SpaceTech
DO-178C
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$110k – $155k per year · Remote (United States) · Top Secret · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$153k
Typical range
$143k – $280k
Open positions
6
4
Jobs
Middle
25%
Senior
25%
Principal
25%
Architect
25%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $155k | $155k |
| Senior | 1 | $143k | $143k |
| Principal | 1 | $280k | $280k |
| Architect | 1 | $190k | $190k |
Highest paying role
Principal Platform Engineer
$280k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Shift5
By role, level and city, against the market · 6 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
76/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
7
3 opened / 7 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
47 days
faster than 28% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
11/11/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+125%
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.
Operations
33% ▼
Industrial Engineering
17%
DevOps
11% ▲
Administrative
11% ▲
Backend
6% ▼
QA
6% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added MIL-STD-461 to stack
Oct 2026
Added DO-254 to stack
Oct 2026
Added DO-178C to stack
Oct 2026
Added CMMC to stack
Oct 2026
Added Siemens NX to stack
Oct 2026
Added MIL-STD-810 to stack
Oct 2026
Added DO-160 to stack
Oct 2026
Added AS9100 to stack
Oct 2026
Added CAPA to stack
Oct 2026
Added Atlantis to stack
Oct 2026
Added Amazon S3 to stack
Oct 2026
Added Slack to stack
Oct 2026
Financials
Total raised
$182M
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
7
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Shift5 over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
62
Postings analysed
18
Stack modernity
75/100AI adopter
Languages
Python39%
Go17%
MATLAB17%
Rust17%
Frameworks & libraries
Angular6%
Hadoop6%
React.js6%
Vue.js6%
Databases
Amazon Redshift6%
MySQL6%
Oracle6%
PostgreSQL6%
Cloud & platforms
Linux39%
AWS17%
Windows17%
GitHub11%
AI & ML
LLM6%
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News
Shift5 Gets $75M for Cyber Push in Defense and Transit
With a $75 million Series C raise, Shift5 plans to scale its operational intelligence platform across military and commercial transportation. Its focus includes
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Shift5 Introduces Breakthrough Multi-Protocol Bus Interface Card (BIC) for Modern and Legacy Transportation and Defense Platforms
Instant Data Capture, Device Fingerprinting, and First-of-Its-Kind Malformed Message Detection and Capture Enable Unmatched Diagnostic Capabilities for Cybersecurity and Maintenance Teams Arlington, Virginia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 2, 2024) - Shift5, t
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Shift5 selected by Army to cyber-harden HIMARS fleet
The U.S. military's increasingly computerized weapons are at risk of harassment or hijacking, the Government Accountability Office has said.
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Shift5: Onboard Data Company Closes $33 Million In Funding
Shift5 - an onboard data company - announced recently that it raised $33 million in additional financing, bringing the Series B round to $83 million.
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Shift5 Gets $33M to Help Safeguard Commercial Transportation
Moore Strategic Ventures led a $33 million investment into a military and transportation security startup founded by officers who stood up U.S. Army Cyber Command.
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Shift5 raises $50M to defend transport networks from cyberattacks
Operational technology failures can lead to millions of dollars in losses, downtime, or even safety risks when things go wrong.
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Shift5 Raises $20 Million to Defend Planes, Trains, and Tanks from Cyberattacks
/PRNewswire/ -- Shift5, an OT cybersecurity company that defends military platforms and commercial transportation systems from cyberattacks, raised $20 million...
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Meet Shift5, the 50-person security startup quietly hiring execs away from hot startups like Tanium and Armis and landing millions in military contracts
Shift5 is a 50-person startup with a total of $2.5 million in VC funding -so how is it poaching talent from Tanium and landing military contracts?
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Shift5 releases technology upgrade for DoD fleets
Shift5 has released an innovative solution to manage the maintenance costs and operational readiness of DoD fleets
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Cybersecurity Company Shift5 Raises $2.5 Million In Funding
Cybersecurity company Shift5 announced that it raised $2.5 million in venture funding led by Squadra Ventures.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Rosslyn
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HQ
Rosslyn
United States
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 200-500 est. staff
hires for Operations