How concentrated is hiring?
The top 10 employers account for 25.8% of 10,153 tracked open roles.
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The generations behind the ecosystem
2020–2024 accounts for 40.0% of the 3,319 companies with a recorded founding year.
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Where the open roles are
New York holds 1,337 of the 9,543 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 Clem Delangue 112 times, more than anyone else here.
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Who is hiring right now
257 companies have 10,153 roles open right now. OpenAI has the most, at 784.
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When this market was built
2023 is the busiest year on the graph: 336 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 4,739 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 Oct 2025 through Sep 16, 2026 · 261 stored records checked
Monthly disclosed value · USD
183 deals found$10.5B recorded
Numbers below months = recorded deal counts. Positive stored USD amounts only; no currency estimates. Current month is partial.
How much can we price?
Usable USD amount183100%
No usable USD amount00%
The value charts cover 183 of 183 recorded deals. Missing USD values remain visible here; they are never estimated.
Deal rhythm · stage × month
183 dealsWhen each stage moves
| Stage · deals | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A47 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | 7 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 3 | – |
| Stage undisclosed33 | – | – | – | – | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
| Seed28 | 1 | 2 | – | – | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 1 | – |
| Venture21 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 3 | 9 | 5 | 3 | – | – |
| Series B19 | – | – | – | – | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | – | – |
| 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.
29%of disclosed value in the largest 5 deals
Median deal $21MLargest 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 · 60 publishers · Sep 11, 2026–Sep 16, 2026
Who is on the wire
TechCrunch AI35 12%
@MaxMaxidee27 9%
New York Times Technology20 7%
@c_valenzuelab16 5%
TechCrunch Startups15 5%
@ClementDelangue13 4%
Share of 300 stored stories, not audience or market share. 54 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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