Xplore
xplore.com
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Earth Observation
Space Services
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Financials
Funding and backers
Total raised
$4.5M
6 rounds on record
Latest round
$2.9M
Venture round · Jan 2021 · 5 yr ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
open roles
Grants
$899k
4 grants · CORDIS
Backers
1
VU Venture Partners
The money's age
Long since its last round
68 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
5 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
Jan 15, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $2.9M · SEC Form D
Mar 23, 2017
Raised a round Venture round $1.6M · SEC Form D
2014
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant | Mar 2021 | $750k | — | CORDIS |
| Venture round | Jan 2021 | $2.9M | — | SEC Form D |
| Grant | Mar 2020 | $50k | — | CORDIS |
| Grant | Mar 2020 | $50k | — | CORDIS |
| Grant | Mar 2019 | $49k | — | CORDIS |
| Venture round | Mar 2017 | $1.6M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Kubos Corp | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Dave SimsExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Tyler BrowderExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Marshall KulpepperExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Jesse HamnerExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Simon HalpernExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How Xplore hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Xplore scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% 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
Xplore is a venture-backed commercial space company that designs, builds and operates satellites and sensors that collect high-fidelity Earth observation data. It offers space as a service covering data, compute and operations, and hires embedded systems engineers and full stack developers. The company is based in the United States.
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Xplore over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
16
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
77/100
Languages
Rust
Kotlin
Python
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
Ray
Cloud & platforms
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
Linux
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Full Xplore tech stack
16 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$160k
Typical range
$160k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $160k | $160k |
Highest paying role
Senior Embedded Systems Engineer - Space Systems
$160k
Normalized to USD per year
People
Dave Sims
Executive Officer
Tyler Browder
Executive Officer, Director
Marshall Kulpepper
Executive Officer, Director
Jesse Hamner
Executive Officer
Simon Halpern
Executive Officer, Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
31/100
Slowing
Open positions
3
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
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.
Backend
67% ▼
Hardware
33% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Bellevue
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Denton
United States
HQ
Bellevue
United States
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $160k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Hardware
Jobs
≈ $146k – $268k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Bellevue
Python
Rust
Kotlin
TypeScript
Multimodal AI
Ray
DevOps
Amazon S3
Amazon ECS
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≈ $138k – $239k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Rust
Kotlin
TypeScript
Multimodal AI
Ray
DevOps
Amazon S3
Amazon ECS
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$130k – $160k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Bellevue
Rust
C++
CI/CD
Git
Docker
Linux
Chips/EDA
KiCad
Xilinx Vivado
PetaLinux
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