Vals AI
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$40M
1 round on record
Latest round
$40M
Series A · Aug 2026 · 2 mo ago
Team
9
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
7
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Pear VC, 8VC
The money's age
Fresh money
2 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
61/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money, 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
Sep 13
On the Hacker News front page Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher · 1218 points
Aug 14
Raised a round Series A $40M · led by Andreessen Horowitz · Tech Times
Jul 3
Launched Vals AI Launches Excel Modeling Benchmark For Finance Agents · Let's Data Science
2024
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.32%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
9
best: 1218 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Aug 2026 | $40M | Andreessen Horowitz lead | Tech Times |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Pear VC 
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How Vals AI hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Vals AI 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
Vals AI runs private, domain-specific benchmarks that measure how language models perform on legal, tax and finance work. Its public leaderboards compare frontier models on tasks professionals actually do. Enterprises use the private evaluations before deploying a model in regulated workflows.
News
Vals AI Backed by Andreessen Horowitz Aims to Become Gold Standard for AI Benchmarking
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Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking
Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.
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GPT-6 Astra Spent Hours Farming Potatoes in Minecraft After Being Blown up by a Creeper
GPT-6 Astra lost all of its Minecraft resources after a Creeper explosion and spent hours farming potatoes instead of rebuilding its progress.
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Vals AI built a test to see if AI models can create their own successors, and the results are fascinating
Vals AI's RSI Index measures how well AI models can build their own successors. Claude Fable 5.1 leads at 35.03% as the benchmarking firm raises
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Vals AI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
20
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
Snorkel
Django
React.js
FastAPI
Cloud & platforms
OpenAI
AWS
Anthropic
AI & ML
LLM
DeepSeek
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Full Vals AI tech stack
20 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$185k
Typical range
$185k – $275k
Open positions
6
5
Jobs
Staff
80%
Architect
20%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | 4 | $185k | $185k |
| Architect | 1 | $275k | $275k |
Highest paying role
Head of Research
$275k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Vals AI
By role, level and city, against the market · 6 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
7
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
27 days
faster than 47% of the market
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.
AI/ML
50% ▲
Product
25% ▼
Sales
25% ▼
Activity Timeline
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
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
7 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 50-200 est. staff $200k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Leadership, Sales
1175 Folsom St, Ste 300
Jobs
$130k – $185k per year • In office • Full-Time • PhD • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
Django
AI/ML
DeepSeek
AI Agents
NLP
LLM
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Snorkel
Interpretability
Multi-Agent Systems
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
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$130k – $185k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
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JavaScript
Django
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$130k – $185k per year • In office • Full-Time • Master's Degree • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
Django
AI/ML
DeepSeek
NLP
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OpenAI
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$130k – $185k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
FastAPI
Django
AI/ML
DeepSeek
NLP
LLM
Tokenization
OpenAI
Snorkel
Frontend
React.js
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Git
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$225k – $275k per year • In office • Full-Time • PhD • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
Django
AI/ML
DeepSeek
NLP
LLM
OpenAI
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Financials
Total raised
$40M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | Valuation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | 2026 | $40M | $400M | Details |