Vanilla Steel
Marketplaces · Metals & Metallurgy
1hiring now · +1 posted in 30 days
1backers · Seedcamp
10+team · employees, estimated range
2020founded
Overview
Vanilla Steel is a Berlin marketplace company founded in 2020 that trades surplus and excess steel. Its platform matches mills and distributors holding unsold material with buyers who need it, a market previously run through brokers. The company operates across European steel supply chains.
Funding and backers
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Seedcamp
Momentum
13/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
2 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
2020
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Vanilla Steel GmbH | its site |
| Registered | 29 Jun 2020 |
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
83/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
1
2 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
21 days
faster than 56% 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.
Marketing
67% ▼
Sales
33% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added LinkedIn to stack
Oct 2026
Added Python to stack
Sep 2026
Added Cursor to stack
Sep 2026
Added Claude to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Vanilla Steel over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
3
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
90/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
Developer tools
Cursor
AI & ML
Claude
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Connections
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Shared investors
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Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Berlin
Berlin
Germany
HQ
1 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing
Schönhauser Allee 36, Berlin, 10435, DE