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Funding and backers

Total raised
$31.3M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$23M
Series B · Oct 2022 · 3 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
62
+7 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Long since its last round
47 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
30/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
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
Mar 18 First role in Mexico Sales Manager (LATAM) - Outbound Mar 18 First role in Colombia Sales Manager (LATAM) - Outbound Mar 18 First role in Argentina Sales Manager (LATAM) - Outbound Oct 26, 2022 Raised a round Series B $23M · led by Tiger · Nasdaq Dec 21, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $8.3M · KMWorld Oct 29, 2020 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Add WhatsApp Chat Button to your website for free Apr 24, 2020 Released an app WATI · App Store 2020 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
3.7 ★
21 ratings
Launched on Hacker News
4 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Oct 2022 $23M Tiger lead Nasdaq
Venture round Dec 2021 $8.3M — KMWorld
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How Wati hires

Truth index
A 93/100
Median time to fill
174 days
Ghost roles
3%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Wati scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 62 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 3% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 174 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

Overview

Wati is a Hong Kong-based software company that runs an AI-powered customer engagement platform built on the WhatsApp Business API, giving businesses a shared team inbox, no-code automation and messaging across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, TikTok and SMS. Launched as a WhatsApp team inbox in 2020, it serves more than 16,000 customers in over 190 countries, is backed by Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, DST Global and Shopify, and is a Meta and Google partner. It hires software, backend, data and QA engineers, product managers and designers, account executives and customer success, marketing and support staff, including teams in mainland China and Malaysia.

News

Blog 3 months ago
What Software allows Multiple Agents to Reply to Customers from One WhatsApp Number?
To allow multiple agents to reply from a single WhatsApp number, businesses must upgrade from the standard app to the WhatsApp Business API connected to a Shared Team Inbox. Wati is a leading WhatsApp-centric platform providing this capability, offering a
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Blog 3 months ago
What Software allows Multiple Agents to Reply to Customers from One WhatsApp Number?
To allow multiple agents to reply from a single WhatsApp number, businesses must upgrade from the standard app to the WhatsApp Business API connected to a Shared Team Inbox. Wati is a leading WhatsApp-centric platform providing this capability, offering a
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Blog 3 months ago
Speed-to-lead: por que o tempo de resposta é diferencial competitivo
Speed-to-lead é o tempo que uma empresa leva para responder a um novo lead após o primeiro contato, e representa uma das métricas comerciais com maior impacto direto na taxa de conversão. Quanto menor o intervalo entre o interesse demonstrado e a primeira
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Blog 3 months ago
Speed-to-lead: por que o tempo de resposta é diferencial competitivo
Speed-to-lead é o tempo que uma empresa leva para responder a um novo lead após o primeiro contato, e representa uma das métricas comerciais com maior impacto direto na taxa de conversão. Quanto menor o intervalo entre o interesse demonstrado e a primeira
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Blog 3 months ago
TikTok for Business: How to Set Up, Market, Advertise & Grow (2026)
Somewhere right now, a small skincare brand is getting more sales from a 15-second TikTok than it ever got from a month of Google ads. That is the strange, wonderful thing about TikTok for Business: it does not care how big your budget is, only whether yo
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Blog 3 months ago
TikTok for Business: How to Set Up, Market, Advertise & Grow (2026)
Somewhere right now, a small skincare brand is getting more sales from a 15-second TikTok than it ever got from a month of Google ads. That is the strange, wonderful thing about TikTok for Business: it does not care how big your budget is, only whether yo
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Blog 3 months ago
WhatsApp Sem Salvar Número: Guia Passo a Passo para Falar com Qualquer Pessoa
Quando chega uma mensagem de um número desconhecido no WhatsApp, o reflexo é imediato: salvar o contato. Seja o eletricista, a farmácia do bairro ou o entregador, a gente salva "só pra não perder". Com o tempo, essa prática enche a agenda de contatos temp
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WhatsApp Sem Salvar Número: Guia Passo a Passo para Falar com Qualquer Pessoa
Quando chega uma mensagem de um número desconhecido no WhatsApp, o reflexo é imediato: salvar o contato. Seja o eletricista, a farmácia do bairro ou o entregador, a gente salva "só pra não perder". Com o tempo, essa prática enche a agenda de contatos temp
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Wati over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
91
Postings analysed
50
Stack modernity
86/100AI adopter
Languages
Go34%
Python28%
JavaScript20%
C#18%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js12%
LangChain8%
React Native6%
CrewAI4%
Databases
PostgreSQL12%
BigQuery6%
Google BigQuery6%
Redis4%
Cloud & platforms
GCP26%
AWS18%
Dify10%
OpenAI8%
AI & ML
LLM24%
Gemini10%
Claude6%
ChatGPT4%
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
64/100
Growing
Open positions
62
4 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
207 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.
Sales
29% ▲
AI/ML
24% ▼
Backend
12% ▼
Customer Success
12% ▼
Communications
6% ▼
Management
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Sales (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Hangzhou Oct 2026
New location: Bogotá Oct 2026
New location: Buenos Aires Oct 2026
New location: San Francisco Oct 2026
Added Zendesk to stack Oct 2026
New location: Tsim Sha Tsui Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added SOC 2 to stack Sep 2026
Added Slack to stack Sep 2026
Added Google Workspace to stack Sep 2026
Added ITIL to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
7
Hiring now
7
Countries
5
Busiest office
Hong Kong
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Hong Kong Hong Kong
HQ
28 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 46% engineering 11% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Marketing, AI/ML, Backend
seen since Dec 2022 job postings
Shenzhen China
Engineering / R&D
26 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 62% engineering 8% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Marketing
seen since Oct 2025 job postings
Bengaluru India
Sales office
12 open roles 33% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Product, Support
seen since Jan 2025 job postings
Chennai India
Sales office
11 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 9% engineering 45% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Product, DevOps
seen since Oct 2025 job postings
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Sales office
9 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 22% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales, Customer Success, Support
seen since Sep 2025 job postings
Chengdu China
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for AI/ML
seen since Oct 2026
San Francisco United States
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for Product
seen since Oct 2025 job postings
Earlier presence
Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong last posting May 2023

Jobs

In office • Chengdu • Shenzhen
Python
Go
LangChain
Dify
Multimodal AI
AI Agents
LLMOps
DevOps
GCP
AWS
Management
n8n
WhatsApp
Apply
Hybrid • Shenzhen
Dart
Swift
Objective-C
Cursor
Claude Code
OpenAI Codex
Mobile
Flutter
State Management
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Management
WhatsApp
Apply
In office • Shenzhen
Python
Go
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
LangChain
Dify
Model Context Protocol
Prompt Engineering
Multimodal AI
Function Calling
AI Agents
Speech Recognition
CrewAI
Gemini
LLM
OpenAI
Text-to-Speech
LiveKit
Context Engineering
Tool Use
Realtime API
DevOps
GCP
WebRTC
Management
WhatsApp
Apply
≈ $39k – $101k per year (Estimated) • In office • Shenzhen
Python
Go
TypeScript
C#
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Copilot
Cursor
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI Codex
Tool Use
DevOps
GCP
Management
WhatsApp
Apply
In office • Shenzhen
Python
TypeScript
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
LLM Guardrails
Tool Use
Management
WhatsApp
Apply
In office • Internship • Shenzhen
Go
C#
Copilot
Cursor
Claude
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
AI Agents
Gemini
LLM
RAG
OpenAI
Tool Use
Management
WhatsApp
Apply
≈ $25k – $47k per year (Estimated) • Remote (India) • Full-Time
Figma
Management
WhatsApp
Apply
Remote (Brazil, Mexico) • Full-Time
WhatsApp
Intercom
Freshdesk
ITIL
Apply
Remote (Indonesia) • Full-Time
WhatsApp
Apply
In office • Full-Time • Kuala Lumpur
WhatsApp
Apply
In office • Shenzhen
Python
Go
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
LangChain
Dify
Model Context Protocol
Prompt Engineering
Multimodal AI
Function Calling
AI Agents
Speech Recognition
CrewAI
Gemini
LLM
OpenAI
Text-to-Speech
LiveKit
Context Engineering
Tool Use
Realtime API
DevOps
GCP
WebRTC
Management
WhatsApp
Apply
In office • Full-Time • Bengaluru
AI Agents
Management
WhatsApp
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$31.3M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2022 $23M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $8.3M Details