Urban SDK
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$70.7M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$65M
Venture round · Feb 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
40
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +90% in a year
Hiring now
7
open roles
Backers
2
Techstars, Florida Opportunity Fund
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
20/100
fresh money
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
Feb 7
Raised a round Venture round $65M · Pulse 2.0
2025
Team of 40 was 21 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Jul 2, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $977k · SEC Form D
Nov 24, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $4.7M · SEC Form D
2018
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Feb 2026 | $65M | — | Pulse 2.0 |
| Venture round | Jul 2024 | $977k | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Nov 2021 | $4.7M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Urban SDK, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Justin DennisExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Andrew MesserExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Techstars 
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How Urban SDK hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Urban SDK 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
News
Urban SDK: $65 Million Growth Round Raised For Expanding Geospatial AI Platform For Local Governments
Urban SDK, a Jacksonville, Florida-based provider of geospatial AI software for public-sector agencies, has raised a $65 million growth funding round from Riverwood Capital as it looks to scale what it calls an
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Urban SDK
Respond to public speeding complaints within 30 seconds and avoid wasting resources on perception-based issues. Redirect staff from data gathering to public safety interventions...
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Urban SDK Announces New Financing Round
/PRNewswire/ -- Urban SDK, a cloud based traffic management system of record for state and local governments, announces a seed funding round led by GOVO...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Urban SDK over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
38
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
72/100
Languages
Python
JavaScript
SQL
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
ApexCharts
Chakra UI
Dask
Mapbox GL JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
Databricks
AWS
Amazon S3
Spark
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38 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
People
Justin Dennis
Executive Officer, Director
Andrew Messer
Executive Officer, Director
Meredith Pelton
Director
Mitchel Laskey
Director
Jonathan Kilman
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
54/100
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.
Sales
29% ▼
Data Science
14% ▼
Backend
14% ▼
Frontend
14% ▼
Marketing
14% ▼
Solutions
14% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Jacksonville
Jacksonville
United States
HQ
Our office location
4 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales, Marketing, Solutions
Jobs
≈ $85k – $174k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Jacksonville
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≈ $133k – $230k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Python
pySpark
Dask
Databases
Databricks
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Spark
Pandas
DevOps
Rest API
gRPC
Terraform
CloudFormation
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
AWS Lambda
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
IAM
Amazon Kinesis
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≈ $120k – $220k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
JavaScript
TypeScript
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Mapbox GL JS
Chakra UI
ApexCharts
DevOps
Rest API
Analytics
Plotly
QA
Cypress
Jest
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≈ $90k – $166k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
SQL
pySpark
Databases
PostgreSQL
Databricks
PostGIS
AI/ML
Spark
Prefect
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Amazon S3
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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