Taekus

Digital Banks & Neobanks · Cards & Card Issuing
5open roles
$230kmedian advertised pay
$6.4Mlatest round · Venture round · Jul 2022 · 4 yr ago
1backers · Soma Capital

Overview

Taekus is a premium financial services company built for the affluent traveler, offering checking accounts, debit and credit cards alongside a proprietary award travel booking engine. It reports processing over 4 billion US dollars in yearly transactions with a lean team of 25. The company is based in the United States.

How Taekus hires

Truth index
C 65/100
Ghost roles
58%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Taekus scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 12 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 58% 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

Funding and backers

Total raised
$6.4M
1 round on record
Latest round
$6.4M
Venture round · Jul 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
12
open roles
Backers
1
Soma Capital
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
Jul 29, 2022 Raised a round Venture round $6.4M · SEC Form D 2019 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 15%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jul 2022 $6.4M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Taekus, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Austen ManceExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$230k
Typical range
$115k – $300k
Open positions
11
11 Jobs
Senior 81.8%
Architect 18.2%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 9 $210k $115k – $230k
Architect 2 $280k $260k – $300k
Highest paying role Head of Marketing $300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Taekus By role, level and city, against the market · 11 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
12
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
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.
Finance
40% ▼
Frontend
20% ▼
Communications
20% ▼
Design
20% ▼
Activity Timeline
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Financials

Total raised
$6.4M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $6.4M Details

People

Austen Mance
Executive Officer, Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Taekus over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
26
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
75/100
Languages
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
SQL
Frameworks & libraries
Django
React.js
Celery
React Native
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
Cloud & platforms
AWS
AWS Lambda
Amazon EC2
Amazon EKS
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Full Taekus tech stack 26 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Connections

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Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors1
Soma CapitalVia a fund
876 portfolio companies

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff