Venture
Internet Services · Domain Registrars & Registries
$5.3Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
1open role
$630klatest round · Convertible Note · Nov 2023 · 2 yr ago
$50Mraised by its portfolio in 12 months
Funding and backers
Total raised
$5.3M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$630k
Convertible Note · Nov 2023 · 2 yr ago
Team
104
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +12% in a year
Hiring now
2
open roles
Backers
2
Y Combinator, Heartcore Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
35 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
4 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
2025
Team of 104 was 93 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Nov 27, 2023
Raised a round Convertible Note $630k · SEC Form D
Dec 20, 2021
New executive Jeff Hastings, Executive Officer, Director · SEC Form D
Dec 2, 2021
Raised a round Convertible Note $4.7M · SEC Form D
2021
Founded
Jan 2019
Went through Y Combinator
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
2
best: 3 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convertible Note | Nov 2023 | $630k | — | SEC Form D |
| Convertible Note | Dec 2021 | $4.7M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | ninetynine inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Daniel NussbaumExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Joe DipreExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Sarah DrydenExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Rob NewboldExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Jeff HastingsExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Michael StewartExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Investor profile
Venture capitalInvestments
3
2 of them startups
Hiring now
1
5 open roles
Deals in 12 months
1
Rounds in 12 months
1
$50M raised
Focusshare of its companies
Data & Analytics 33%Artificial Intelligence 33%Cybersecurity 33%
Where its companies are
United States 67%Israel 33%
Stage of its companies
Series A 67%Series B 33%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 3 investments
VapiSeries B $50M · 5 mo ago · 5 roles
InsiteSeries A $19M · 4 yr ago · led a round
nsKnoxSeries A $15M · 7 yr ago · led a round
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
M12 Sources: 3 rounds in the press that name it
Jobs
≈ $63k – $115k per year (Estimated) · In office · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cambridge
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Visa sponsorship
0
H-1B filings in 12 months
0
Open roles in United States
In the register as Brightsign LLC, San Jose, CA
Other sponsors in the same field
VERISIGN 15 filings
GoDaddy 88 filings
Prosper Marketplace 31 filings
CoStar Realty Information, Inc. 30 filings
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Aug 8, 2024 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
33/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
63 days
faster than 19% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
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.
Finance
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Sep 2026
People
Daniel Nussbaum
Executive Officer
Joe Dipre
Executive Officer, Director
Sarah Dryden
Executive Officer
Rob Newbold
Executive Officer, Director
Jeff Hastings
Executive Officer, Director
Michael Stewart
Executive Officer, Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Venture over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
26
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
C++
Go
JavaScript
Node JS
Frameworks & libraries
ASP.NET Core
Electron
FFmpeg
GStreamer
Cloud & platforms
Linux
Power BI
Windows
AI & ML
LLM
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Shared investors
Heartcore CapitalVia a fund
Y CombinatorVia a fund
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Cambridge
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San Jose
United States
HQ
BrightSign US
Chicago
United States
HQ
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Regional office
BrightSign UK
1 open roles 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
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