The Token Company

Custom Software Development
2open roles
4backers · Y Combinator, Failup Ventures
1-10team · employees, estimated range
Btruth index, 75 of 100

Overview

Cut OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini API costs with accuracy held flat — or take a smaller cut and lift accuracy by several points instead. The bear-2 prompt compression API strips low-signal tokens from your inputs before they hit the LLM.

How The Token Company hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

The Token Company scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 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

Funding and backers

Team
1-10
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
open roles
Backers
4
Y Combinator, Failup Ventures
Momentum
30/100
in the news, rising traction
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
Jan 2026 Went through Y Combinator 2026 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 15%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
4 public repositories · +13%
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Jobs

≈ $192k – $381k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
LLM
OpenAI
Hugging Face
Machine Learning
DevOps
Terraform
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
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≈ $197k – $392k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
Fine-tuning
Prompt Engineering
LLM
RAG
OpenAI
Hugging Face
Post-training
Machine Learning
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Visa sponsorship

2
Adverts offering sponsorship in 24 months
3
Open roles in United States
In the register as The Token Company
Other sponsors in the same field
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The employer's own adverts on Alion · checked Nov 12, 2026 · Visa details by country

Growth

Hiring Momentum
31/100
Slowing
Open positions
3
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 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
67% ▼
Sales
33% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at The Token Company over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
12
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
88/100AI adopter
Cloud & platforms
Hugging Face
OpenAI
AWS
AI & ML
LLM
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Full The Token Company tech stack 12 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Connections

List
Graph
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 investors4
Failup VenturesVia a fund
30 portfolio companies: Routine, Inference Capital (formerly Marly), Coplay and 27 more
VisionariesVia a fund
59 portfolio companies: Yokoy, WorkFlex, Ziggiz and 56 more
Wave VenturesVia a fund
62 portfolio companies: Zettascale, Vetnio, Ossus and 59 more
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6310 portfolio companies
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News

News Xyntetik 2 months ago
Tool calls that survive the token limit Xyntetik
When max_tokens runs out in the middle of a tool call, most engines return nothing usable. Xyntetik Runner closes the call to the smallest schema-legal document so the arguments still parse. The mechanism and the six-engine measurement.
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News arXiv.org 2 months ago
Breaking the Token Ceiling: Distilling Smaller, Stronger Byte Models
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.12303: Breaking the Token Ceiling: Distilling Smaller, Stronger Byte Models
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News ki-utvikling.nav.no 2 months ago
Your sandbox confines the process, not the token
A coding agent inside a perfect kernel sandbox can still push to main and merge its own pull request. Nothing it does breaks a sandbox rule.
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Press release PRNewswire 3 months ago
The Token Supercycle is Here: Solana Brings Breakpoint 2026 to London
/PRNewswire/ -- Solana Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the decentralization, growth, and security of Solana, today announced the first wave of speakers...
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News befailproof.ai 3 months ago
the token times a monthly newspaper on the ai industry
The Token Times is a monthly broadsheet on what the AI industry actually did - models, money, launches, and the models that got retired. Read every edition online, free, or download the print PDF. Published by failproof ai.
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News Vectoral 3 months ago
Who Are the Token Brokers?
A look at the brokers buying unused AI credits from startups and reselling them - the marketplaces, the bulk-discount routers, and the message boards where off-market inference changes hands
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News solvimon.com 4 months ago
AI pricing is understood now but the token is still just a cost Solvimon Blog
Get ahead and start pricing value. Effective AI monetization uses bundling, outcome-based pricing, and usage gating backed by real-time metering.
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News mroczek.dev 5 months ago
The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK
RTK promises dramatic token savings for coding agents, but raw terminal compression is not the same as cheaper, safer, or more accurate software engineering.
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News link.mail.beehiiv.com 5 months ago
The Token Value of $200/mo Plans Read more
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco United States
HQ
The Token Company
3 open roles 67% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Sales
San Francisco
seen since Jun 2026 company site, job postings