Tolan
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$30M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$20M
Venture round · Jul 2025 · 15 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
7
open roles
Backers
2
Khosla Ventures, Union Square Ventures
The money's age
Due for its next round
15 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 7, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $20M · GeekWire
Feb 25, 2025
Raised a round Seed $10M
Jun 19, 2024
Released an app Tolan: Your Friendly Guide · App Store
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.56%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.8 ★
183k ratings
Hacker News stories
3
best: 39 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jul 2025 | $20M | — | GeekWire |
| Seed | Feb 2025 | $10M | — | forbes.com |
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How Tolan hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Tolan scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 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
Overview
Tolan is building personal AI that helps people think, reflect and take action in their real lives, delivered as a friendly AI guide in an iOS app. Its team previously founded Even, which was acquired in 2022, and the company hires iOS, backend, gameplay and agent engineers and designers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Khosla VenturesVia a fund
Union Square VenturesVia a fund
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How We Claudified Our iOS App Without Wrecking Our Codebase Tolans.com
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How We Hire Engineers When AI Writes Our Code Tolans.com
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AI companionship app Tolan raises $20M to help more people grow with a virtual alien friend
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What Could a Healthy AI Companion Look Like?
A chatbot designed to avoid anthropomorphism offers a compelling glimpse into the future of human-to-AI relationships.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Tolan over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
2
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
85/100
Frameworks & libraries
Unity
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$300k
Typical range
$115k – $300k
Open positions
7
6
Jobs
Junior
16.7%
Middle
16.7%
Senior
16.7%
Staff
33.3%
Principal
16.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $115k | $115k |
| Middle | 1 | $300k | $300k |
| Senior | 1 | $180k | $180k |
| Staff | 2 | $250k | $200k – $300k |
| Principal | 1 | $300k | $300k |
Highest paying role
iOS Product Engineer
$300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Tolan
By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
7
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.
Design
33% ▼
HR
33% ▼
Management
33% ▼
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
7 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 43% engineering 50-200 est. staff $242k Avg Salary
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