Overview
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Latest round
Venture round
Aug 2026 · 2 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
15
+12 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Seedcamp
The money's age
Fresh money
2 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
52/100
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
Aug 4 Raised a round Venture round Aug 7, 2025 Raised a round Venture round Apr 13, 2023 Raised a round Venture round Mar 4, 2022 Raised a round Venture round Nov 28, 2021 Raised a round Venture round 2017 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Aug 2026 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Aug 2025 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Apr 2023 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Mar 2022 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Nov 2021 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Zinc Work Ltd its site
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Overview

Zinc is a London technology company founded in 2017 that automates employment background checks. Its platform collects references and verifications with the candidate's consent and returns results faster than manual screening. The company works with technology employers and staffing firms across Europe and North America.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Zinc over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
20
Postings analysed
10
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
JavaScript30%
TypeScript30%
Node JS20%
SQL10%
Frameworks & libraries
Cypress30%
Jest30%
Nest.JS20%
React.js20%
Cloud & platforms
API Gateway20%
AWS20%
AWS Lambda20%
Amazon S320%
AI & ML
Claude20%
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Full Zinc tech stack 20 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$96k
Typical range
$27k – $187k
Open positions
15
9 Jobs
Senior 33.3%
Staff 66.7%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 3 $107k $107k – $187k
Staff 6 $95k $94k – $107k
Highest paying role Senior Account Executive $187k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Zinc By role, level and city, against the market · 15 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
72/100
Growing
Open positions
15
12 opened / 10 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
26 days
faster than 48% 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.
Marketing
24% ▲
Sales
21% ▼
Backend
9% ▼
Support
6%
HR
6%
Operations
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Marketing (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+12 jobs in a week Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
London
London United Kingdom
HQ
15 open roles 33 posted in 90 days 27% engineering 50-200 est. staff $97k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Backend, Sales
seen since Sep 2026 job postings

Jobs

$27k per year • Hybrid • Part-Time • London
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$96k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • London
JavaScript
TypeScript
CircleCI
CI/CD
QA
Cypress
Playwright
Jest
Vitest
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$94k – $107k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • London
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Nest.JS
Frontend
Vue.js
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
API Gateway
QA
Cypress
Jest
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$94k – $107k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • London
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Nest.JS
Frontend
Vue.js
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
API Gateway
QA
Cypress
Jest
Apply

Financials

Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
5
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 — Details