Sown To Grow
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$4M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$1.9M
Venture round · Jul 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
25
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +9% in a year
Hiring now
1
open roles
The money's age
Long since its last round
26 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
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 25 was 23 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Jul 25, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $1.9M · SEC Form D
Apr 16, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $316k · SEC Form D
Oct 10, 2018
Raised a round Venture round $710k · SEC Form D
Jan 17, 2016
Raised a round Convertible Note $1.1M · SEC Form D
2015
Founded
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jul 2024 | $1.9M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Apr 2020 | $316k | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Oct 2018 | $710k | — | SEC Form D |
| Convertible Note | Jan 2016 | $1.1M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Sown to Grow, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Dennis LiExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Rupa GuptaExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Sown To Grow over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
24
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
Frameworks & libraries
NumPy
PyTorch
Scikit-learn
TensorFlow
Cloud & platforms
Spark
AWS
Amazon SageMaker
Developer tools
Git
AI & ML
LLM
Practices & domains
AI Agents
Anomaly Detection
Embeddings
Fine-tuning
LLM Guardrails
Machine Learning
NLP
RAG
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People
Dennis Li
Executive Officer, Director
Rupa Gupta
Executive Officer, Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~11 hours
09/29/2026
Hiring Dynamics
0%
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.
Data Science
100% ▼
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Oakland
United States
HQ
10-50 est. staff
1721 Broadway #201, Oakland, CA, 94612, US
Jobs
≈ $82k – $182k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • United States
Python
Spark
Fine-tuning
Embeddings
Scikit-learn
AI Agents
NLP
TensorFlow
NumPy
PyTorch
LLM
RAG
Tokenization
Anomaly Detection
Amazon SageMaker
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
Recommender Systems
Tool Use
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Analytics
A/B Testing
Management
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