Variance
variance.com
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Fraud Detection
RegTech, AML & Compliance
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$21.5M
1 round on record
Latest round
$21.5M
Series A · Mar 2026 · 6 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
9
open roles
Backers
1
Y Combinator
The money's age
Fresh money
6 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
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
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 3%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
12
best: 18 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Mar 2026 | $21.5M | — | axios.com |
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How Variance hires
Truth index
B 83/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
67%
Reposted roles
0%
Variance scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 9 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 67% 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
Variance is an artificial intelligence company that builds AI agents for investigative and review work in risk, compliance and trust and safety operations. Its agents handle level one to level three reviews with consistency, auditability and traceability, replacing manual case work for operations teams. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
News
What is mean-variance analysis?
Discover how mean-variance analysis transformed investing by helping investors balance expected return against risk for smarter portfolio decisions.
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Accumulated Variance
One way of looking at the world, and the vast interconnected economy and agents of capital, is that it is the product of accumulated variance.
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On the Fragility of Self-Improving Agents: Variance, Task Order, and Underspecification
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2608.18066: On the Fragility of Self-Improving Agents: Variance, Task Order, and Underspecification
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Taming optimization variance in compact neural shading networks
We present a training algorithm to mitigate optimization instabilities in small neural networks, like those used in real-time neural shading applications. While large, overparameterized models exhibit predictable convergence, smaller architectures often s
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Posterior variance in conjugate models Poisson-gamma
Posterior variance for three conjugate Bayesian models. The posterior variance in the Poisson-gamma model jumps every time there's an observation.
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Does additional data always reduce posterior variance?
Observing data that is moderately concordant with what you've seen before decreases posterior variance. But discordant data could increase posterior variance.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Variance over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
18
Postings analysed
11
Stack modernity
74/100
Languages
TypeScript27%
JavaScript18%
Java9%
Python9%
Frameworks & libraries
Next.js18%
React.js18%
Databases
ClickHouse18%
MySQL18%
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Full Variance tech stack
18 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$300k
Typical range
$250k – $500k
Open positions
5
4
Jobs
Junior
25%
Middle
50%
Senior
25%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $250k | $250k |
| Middle | 2 | $500k | $500k |
| Senior | 1 | $300k | $300k |
Highest paying role
Enterprise Account Executive
$500k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Variance
By role, level and city, against the market · 5 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
56/100
Growing
Open positions
9
0 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
191 days
faster than 8% 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.
Backend
33% ▼
Product
33% ▼
Sales
33% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: New York
Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Added HubSpot to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tool Use to stack
Sep 2026
Added LLM Evaluation to stack
Aug 2026
Added Context Engineering to stack
Aug 2026
Added Edge AI to stack
Aug 2026
Added Function Calling to stack
Aug 2026
Added Post-training to stack
Aug 2026
Added Reinforcement Learning to stack
Jul 2026
Added Fine-tuning to stack
Jul 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
8 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff $338k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Product
New York
United States
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff $500k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
Jobs
≈ $213k – $450k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Function Calling
AI Agents
Context Engineering
LLM Evaluation
Tool Use
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≈ $213k – $448k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
AI Agents
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$180k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
AI Agents
Post-training
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≈ $213k – $419k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Java
TypeScript
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
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$160k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
MySQL
ClickHouse
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
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$200k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
MySQL
ClickHouse
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
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Financials
Total raised
$21.5M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | 2026 | $21.5M | Details |