Valence

Corporate Training · Coaching & Mentoring
$87.3Mtotal raised · 4 rounds on record
11open roles
$50Mlatest round · Series B · Sep 2025 · 13 mo ago
5backers · Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Partners

Overview

Valence is an AI-powered leadership coaching company that lets enterprises offer executive-level coaching at scale. Its postings cover go-to-market associates, executive operations, client partners, engagement managers and strategy and operations associates, mostly in New York with roles in Toronto, San Francisco and London. The company is headquartered in New York, United States.

How Valence hires

Truth index
A 89/100
Median time to fill
161 days
Ghost roles
10%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Valence scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 20 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 10% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 161 days. 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
$87.3M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$50M
Series B · Sep 2025 · 13 mo ago
Hiring now
20
+6 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Partners
The money's age
Due for its next round
13 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
12/100
hiring for its size
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
Oct 29 First executive search Director, Talent Acquisition Sep 25, 2025 Raised a round Series B $50M May 3, 2022 Raised a round Venture round $25M · TechCrunch Oct 19, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $7M · Venturebeat Aug 11, 2020 Raised a round Venture round $5.3M · TechCrunch
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Sep 2025 $50M — streetinsider.com
Venture round May 2022 $25M — TechCrunch
Venture round Oct 2021 $7M — Venturebeat
Venture round Aug 2020 $5.3M — TechCrunch
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Jobs

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Growth

Hiring Momentum
74/100
Growing
Open positions
20
7 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
105 days
faster than 11% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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.
HR
25% ▼
Sales
25% ▲
Marketing
17% ▼
Solutions
17% ▲
Communications
8% ▲
Operations
8% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Snowflake to stack Nov 2026
Added Least Privilege to stack Nov 2026
Added GDPR to stack Nov 2026
Added Databricks to stack Nov 2026
Added SOAP to stack Nov 2026
Added Rest API to stack Nov 2026
Added Microsoft Teams to stack Nov 2026
Added Salesforce to stack Oct 2026
Added HubSpot to stack Oct 2026
New location: United States Sep 2026
Added OWASP to stack Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack Sep 2026

Financials

Total raised
$87.3M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2025 $50M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $25M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $7M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $5.3M Details

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Valence over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
48
Postings analysed
21
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
Python33%
SQL14%
JavaScript10%
TypeScript10%
Frameworks & libraries
Matplotlib10%
NumPy10%
Pandas10%
Seaborn10%
Databases
Snowflake5%
Cloud & platforms
AWS24%
GCP14%
Azure14%
Kubernetes10%
AI & ML
LLM38%
Claude5%
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Connections

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Shared investors5
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SempervirensVia a fund
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News

News Valence AI Documentation 5 months ago
Welcome to Valence's Docs
These docs are your starting point for building emotion detection and understanding into your application. Valence's APIs allow for real-time and asynchronous processing of voice data for emotion analysis, allowing you to create rich, emotionally-intellig
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Press release PRNewswire 5 months ago
Valence AI Raises $5 Million, Secures U.S. Patents on Real-Time Emotional Detection from Live Speech
/PRNewswire/ -- Valence AI, an emotional intelligence infrastructure company, today announced $5 million in total funding, including a seed round led by...
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News YahooFinance 5 months ago
Valence Launches Wealth Management Firm Built Around the Client, Not the Advisor
NEW YORK, June 22, 2026--Valence today announced its launch, introducing a fundamentally new operating model for wealth management. Built on proprietary AI-native technology and a contrarian premise, the firm was founded on the belief that the future of t
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News Bluesky 1 year ago
Daniel Temkin (@dtemkin.bsky.social)
Excited to share Valence, a programming language first unveiled at #FOSDEM 2025. Valence borrows from natural language to expand the expressive power of code. Try it in the browser: https://danieltemkin.com/Esolangs/ValenceRepo here: https://github.com/ro
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
3
Busiest office
New York
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New York United States
HQ
11 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 36% engineering
hires for Backend, Sales, Security
408 Broadway Ave
seen since Sep 2025 job postings
Toronto Canada
Regional office
7 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 43% engineering
hires for Backend, HR, Product
215 Spadina Avenue
seen since Nov 2025 job postings
San Francisco United States
Engineering / R&D
4 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 75% engineering
hires for Backend, Solutions
seen since Mar 2026
London United Kingdom
Sales office
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days
hires for Product, Marketing, Sales
10 York Road, London, SE1 7ND
seen since Feb 2026 job postings