Vital Lyfe
Home Appliances
$42.1Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
2open roles
$130kmedian advertised pay
$24Mlatest round · Seed · Dec 2025 · 10 mo ago
Overview
Vital Lyfe is redefining water access with aerospace-grade purification technology. Freedom from infrastructure, built for movement, built for life without limits.
How Vital Lyfe hires
Truth index
A 93/100
Median time to fill
75 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
8%
Reposted roles
0%
Vital Lyfe scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 12 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 8% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 75 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
$42.1M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$24M
Seed · Dec 2025 · 10 mo ago
Team
17
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
15
+6 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Ambition, Earthrise Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
10 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
36/100
hiring for its size, 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
Apr 14
Launched Vital Lyfe Launches Access, a Portable Filtration System for On-Demand Water Anywhere, for Pre-Order · PRNewswire
Dec 16, 2025
Raised a round Seed $24M · PRNewswire
Jun 23, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $18.1M · SEC Form D
2024
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Dec 2025 | $24M | — | PRNewswire |
| Venture round | Jun 2025 | $18.1M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Vital Lyfe, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Charles HarnerExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Jonathan CrissExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Earthrise Ventures 
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$130k
Typical range
$42k – $170k
Open positions
15
13
Jobs
Intern
15.4%
Junior
38.5%
Middle
15.4%
Senior
23.1%
Staff
7.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 2 | $66k | $66k |
| Junior | 5 | $140k | $42k – $150k |
| Middle | 2 | $92k | $54k – $130k |
| Senior | 3 | $170k | $150k – $170k |
| Staff | 1 | $150k | $150k |
Highest paying role
Senior Mechanical Engineer
$170k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Vital Lyfe
By role, level and city, against the market · 15 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
62/100
Growing
Open positions
15
3 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
75 days
faster than 16% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
11/07/2026
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.
Industrial Engineering
60% ▼
Administrative
20% ▲
Backend
10% ▲
Early Careers
10% ▼
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Outlook to stack
Oct 2026
Added Statistical Process Control to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Oct 2026
People
Charles Harner
Executive Officer, Director
Jonathan Criss
Executive Officer, Director
Achal Upadhyaya
Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Vital Lyfe over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
15
Postings analysed
10
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
SQL40%
Python30%
TypeScript30%
JavaScript30%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js30%
Cloud & platforms
AWS30%
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15 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
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News
Vital Lyfe Announces Athlete Endorsement Partnership with World Champion Surfer John John Florence
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Cooler-size survival cube purifies saltwater as well as fresh
Vital Lyfe's portable battery-powered filtration system makes safe drinking water from any source, including seawater, on demand for off-grid living and disaster relief.
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Vital Lyfe Launches Access, a Portable Filtration System for On-Demand Water Anywhere, for Pre-Order
/PRNewswire/ -- Vital Lyfe, a water technology company focused on universal water accessibility, announced today the pre-order launch of Access, its...
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/C O R R E C T I O N -- Vital Lyfe/
Vital Lyfe, a water technology company focused on universal water filtration, today announced the opening of its new, 37,000 square foot headquarters and manufacturing facility in Torrance, California. The move follows the company
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Vital Lyfe: $24 Million Seed Funding Raised To Scale Portable Water Making Systems
Vital Lyfe, a Hawthorne, California-based startup developing portable systems that can produce purified water from a range of natural sources, including seawater, has raised $24 million in financing to accelerate manufacturing and expand early deployments
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Hawthorne Startup Vital Lyfe Closes $24M Seed Round for Grid-Independent Water Tech
Led by General Catalyst, Vital Lyfe's $24M seed round accelerates the 2026 launch of autonomous water systems. Read how they are redefining water access.
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Vital Lyfe raises $24M in funding to make any kind of water source clean enough to drink
Vital Lyfe raises $24M in funding to make any kind of water source clean enough to drink - SiliconANGLE
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Vital Lyfe Announces $24 Million Seed Round to Redefine Global Water Access
/PRNewswire/ -- Vital Lyfe, the company redefining water access through scalable, personal water-making technology, today announced it has raised $24 million,...
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Los Angeles
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Hawthorne
United States
HQ
Los Angeles
United States
Plant / site
15 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 7% engineering 10-50 est. staff $119k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Administrative, Sales
Torrance
United States
Regional office
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1315 Storm Parkway, Torrance, CA 90501