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People
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Offices
Jobs
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$3M
1 round on record
Latest round
$3M
Seed · Oct 2021 · 4 yr ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
11
open roles
Backers
1
OSS Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
59 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
rising traction
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
Dec 15, 2025 On the Hacker News front page Umbrel – Personal Cloud · 220 points Jun 7, 2022 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting Oct 29, 2021 Raised a round Seed $3M · Nasdaq 2020 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
33 public repositories · +1%
Launched on Hacker News
225 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Seed Oct 2021 $3M — Nasdaq
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How Umbrel hires

Truth index
D 40/100
Ghost roles
100%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Umbrel scores D on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 11 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 100% 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

Overview

Umbrel is a software company behind umbrelOS, a home server operating system for self-hosting, and Umbrel Home, a plug-and-play home server. Users can install apps such as Nextcloud, Jellyfin and a Bitcoin node in one click. The company is based in the United States.

News

News Geeky Gadgets 8 months ago
Umbrel Pro : 16TB Personal Cloud Storage Solution With No Subscriptions
Umbrel Pro is a private home cloud server with four SSD slots up to 16TB and 2.5GB Ethernet, giving you fast storage without fees.
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News umbrel 8 months ago
Umbrel Pro The ultimate home cloud with up to 32TB storage
Home cloud with up to 32TB SSD storage. Run OpenClaw, store files & photos, run Bitcoin node and local LLMs. No monthly fees, complete privacy.
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News umbrel.com 11 months ago
umbrelOS - An elegant OS for your home server
The ultimate OS for self-hosting and running a home cloud. Install in one click on a Raspberry Pi, NUC, or a VM to use apps like Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Bitcoin node, and more.
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News heise online 2 years ago
Der einfachste Homeserver CasaOS und Umbrel im Test
Homeserver gelten als komplex; das wollen die Open-Source-Projekte CasaOS und Umbrel ändern. Wir haben uns beide angeschaut.
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News framer.umbrel.com 2 years ago
umbrelOS - An elegant OS for your home server
The ultimate OS for self-hosting and running a home cloud. Install in one click on a Raspberry Pi, NUC, or a VM to use apps like Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Bitcoin node, and more.
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News 9to5Mac 3 years ago
Umbrel Home Review
The umbrel home is going to become the default standard for taking control of your data in terms of cost and who has access.
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News 9to5Mac 3 years ago
Umbrel now supports Homebridge for adding HomeKit products
The popular Umbrel home server solution now supports the Homebridge platform for expanding the products that work with HomeKit.
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News Bitcoin Magazine 3 years ago
Umbrel Announces New Umbrel Home Plug-And-Play Server
The new Umbrel Home comes with a 2TB SSD and outperforms Raspberry Pi 4-based servers in many capacities.
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News X (formerly Twitter) 4 years ago
Umbrel (@umbrel) on X
ayyyy folks, guess what?!you can now transform your umbrel into your own powerful media server - aka become your own netflix thanks to the 7 new apps launched in the umbrel app store today - plex, jellyfin, transmission, sonarr, radarr, lidarr and prowlar
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News Hackaday 4 years ago
Easier Self Hosting With Umbrel
While it is undeniable that cloud-based services are handy, there are people who would rather do it themselves. For many of us, it is because we want what we want the way we want it. For others, it is...
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Umbrel over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
13
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
78/100
Languages
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Frameworks & libraries
React.js
Tailwind CSS
shadcn/ui
Radix UI
Cloud & platforms
Linux
Figma
Expo
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
11
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~3 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.
Marketing
27% ▼
Backend
18% ▼
Hardware
18% ▼
Industrial Engineering
18% ▼
Frontend
9% ▼
Design
9% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added React Native to stack Sep 2026
Added Expo to stack Sep 2026
Added Docker Compose to stack Sep 2026
Added X (Twitter) to stack Sep 2026
Added Reddit to stack Sep 2026
Added Discord to stack Sep 2026

Jobs

≈ $94k – $220k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
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≈ $118k – $231k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
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≈ $132k – $230k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Tailwind CSS
React.js
Radix UI
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Docker
Linux
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≈ $131k – $228k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Docker
Linux
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≈ $122k – $224k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
JavaScript
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
React.js
Radix UI
shadcn/ui
Design
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Financials

Total raised
$3M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Seed 2021 $3M Details