Sphinxhq
sphinxhq.com
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$50k
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$50k
Venture round · Jul 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
7
open roles
Backers
2
Y Combinator, Cherry Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
51 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
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 2024
Went through Y Combinator
Jul 1, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $50k · SEC Form D
Oct 5, 2021
Took on debt financing $110k · SEC Form D
2021
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jul 2022 | $50k | — | SEC Form D |
| Debt Financing | Oct 2021 | $110k | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Sphinx Industries Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Georges DuplessyExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
John SimionExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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How Sphinxhq hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Sphinxhq scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 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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Cherry VenturesVia a fund
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News
Sphinx launches document fraud detection for KYC and KYB The Paypers
Sphinx has launched a document fraud detection tool that flags forgeries with explainable evidence across KYC, KYB, and income verification workflows.
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Temporal, ZaiNar, Jump and Sphinx Power the Next Enterprise AI Stack
A new wave of infrastructure players has gotten funding to embed autonomous AI agents into the world's most sensitive industries.
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Sphinx Closes $7M Seed Round to Deploy AI Agents for Compliance Operations
Compliance technology startup Sphinx has secured $7 million in seed funding to advance its browser-native artificial intelligence agents for financial
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Sphinx Raises $7.1M to Build Every Financial Institution
Sphinx, the company building browser-native compliance agents for financial institutions, led by Alexandre Berkovic and Chrisjan Wust, has raised a $7.1 million seed round led by Cherry Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Deel Vent
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Sphinx raises $7.1m to expand AI-powered compliance agents Biometric Update
The funding round was led by Cherry Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Deel Ventures and Singularity Capital.
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LATEST: Sphinx raises $7.1M to scale AI compliance agents
SPHINX, a company that develops browser-native AI compliance agents for financial institutions, has raised $7.1 million in seed funding.
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Sphinx raises $7.1M to scale compliance agents
Sphinx is on a mission to build the intelligence layer for global trust and equip institutions with the tools to keep up with modern fraudSAN FRANCI
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Sphinx obtains USD 7.1 mln seed for AI compliance agents The Paypers
Sphinx receives USD 7.1 million seed round led by Cherry Ventures for browser-native AML, KYC, and KYB compliance agents for banks and fintechs.
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Sphinx Raises $7.1 Million in Seed Funding to Expand Browser-Native Compliance Agents
By Vincent Lee Smith Chrisjan Wüst (left), Co-Founder and CTO, and Alexandre Berkovic (right), Co-Founder and CEO of Sphinx Photo Credit: Sphinx SAN...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Sphinxhq over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
2
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
53/100
Practices & domains
AI Agents
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$210k
Typical range
$160k – $300k
Open positions
6
3
Jobs
Middle
33.3%
Staff
33.3%
Architect
33.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $250k | $250k |
| Staff | 1 | $300k | $300k |
| Architect | 1 | $180k | $180k |
Highest paying role
Member of Technical Staff
$300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Sphinxhq
By role, level and city, against the market · 6 jobs with pay
People
Georges Duplessy
Executive Officer, Director
John Simion
Executive Officer, Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
7
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
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.
AI/ML
14% ▼
Backend
14% ▼
Finance
14% ▼
Legal
14% ▼
Operations
14% ▼
Early Careers
14% ▼
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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