How concentrated is hiring?
The top 10 employers account for 27.9% of 11,151 tracked open roles.
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The generations behind the ecosystem
2020–2024 accounts for 38.0% of the 3,664 companies with a recorded founding year.
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Where the open roles are
San Francisco holds 1,564 of the 10,542 roles open here.
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Where they studied
The Wharton School has taught 63 of the people on this graph, more than any other school.
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Where the founders came from
Microsoft has produced 36 founders on this graph, more than anywhere else.
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Who the wire keeps naming
Over 90 days the wire named Max Snow 223 times, more than anyone else here.
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Who is hiring right now
257 companies have 11,151 roles open right now. OpenAI has the most, at 803.
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When this market was built
2023 is the busiest year on the graph: 349 companies founded then are still here.
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What this market is made of
Enterprise software is the biggest sector here: 530 of 4,738 companies.
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Market structure
The shape of the market.
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4,290companies with a sector recordedCompanies can appear in several sectors. Areas represent sector memberships, not exclusive shares of the market.
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Explore deals ↗The shape of the money.
Deals found from Nov 2025 through Oct 10, 2026 · 276 stored records checked
Monthly disclosed value · USD
194 deals found$11.5B recorded
Numbers below months = recorded deal counts. Amounts reported in USD only; a deal reported in another currency is counted, never converted. Current month is partial.
How much can we price?
Reported in USD194100%
Amount not disclosed00%
The value charts cover 194 of 194 recorded deals. Every deal keeps the amount it was reported in; nothing is converted or estimated.
Deal rhythm · stage × month
194 dealsWhen each stage moves
| Stage · deals | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
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| Stage undisclosed46 | – | – | – | 4 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 4 |
| Series A45 | 2 | 1 | – | 7 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 3 | – | – |
| Seed27 | 2 | – | – | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 1 | – | – |
| Venture21 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 3 | 9 | 5 | 3 | – | – | – |
| Series B20 | – | – | – | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | – | 1 | – |
| Series C15 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | – | – |
| Series D5 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | – | 1 | – |
| Remaining stages15 | 2 | 3 | – | 1 | – | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | – | – | – |
Darker cells = more recorded deals; each row includes its count. Includes financing, acquisitions and listings. 64 missing or invalid dates excluded. Blank months mean no matching records in this sample.
Many deals. A few big checks.
27%of disclosed value in the largest 5 deals
Median deal $23.5MLargest 5 $3.1B
Cumulative share of disclosed USD value, ordered by deal size. This describes the recorded deals, not company valuations.
Largest disclosed deals
12 months · USDThe names behind the capital
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Kalshi$1.1B
SEC filing · Apr 3, 2026
Cyera$600M
Series G · Jul 6, 2026
Flourish$500M
Venture · Jun 5, 2026
VAST Data$500M
Series F · Apr 22, 2026
Modal$355M
Series C · May 26, 2026
AlphaSense$350M
Venture · Jun 3, 2026
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Media & content intelligence
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300 recent stored stories · 61 publishers · Oct 6, 2026–Oct 10, 2026
Who is on the wire
TechCrunch AI31 10%
@ClementDelangue28 9%
TechCrunch Startups25 8%
@judyshapiro21 7%
New York Times Technology16 5%
@AravSrinivas14 5%
Share of 300 stored stories, not audience or market share. 55 further publishers outside this view. Ingest frequency affects the sample.
Beyond the written story
podcast297100%
297 unique source URLs in 300 appearance records, newest dated first. One interview linked to several people counts once. Stored formats can include unresolved matches.
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