{ "slug": "seed-stage-ai-companies", "name": "Seed-stage AI companies", "definition": "Companies building AI-native products that announced a seed or pre-seed round in the last 12 months, 5 to 150 employees, selling to businesses or developers. Not consultancies, not agencies, not open-source projects without a company.", "version": "vertical@1.0.0", "computed_at": "2026-10-14T01:14:24.115Z", "status": "published", "claim_check": "pass", "unsupported": [], "study": { "title": "Who's Hiring at Seed-Stage AI Companies Right Now", "summary": "Across the seed-stage AI companies we track, engineering is still the biggest hiring line, but the fastest-moving role is AI and ML engineering specifically. A small, consistent set of companies account for most of the activity, and go-to-market hiring — demand gen, account executives — is running close behind engineering, not far behind it.", "key_insights": [ "Software engineer was the single biggest hiring line over the last year, with 21% of these companies posting for it and over a quarter of all postings going to it.", "AI / ML engineer is the fastest-growing role in the portfolio, with 55% of its most recent postings concentrated in just four companies.", "AI-native hiring — people hired specifically into AI or ML engineering seats — touches 11% of these companies, led by allNeurons, Kaya AI, Arcade.dev, BAY6.AI and Jobright.ai.", "Demand generation and account executive roles were nearly as common as engineering, at 17% and 16% of companies respectively, showing go-to-market build-out starting early.", "A tight cluster of companies — AlgorithmX, Arcade.dev, avante, BAY6.AI, Circle Health, Codeable, CodeplixAI and Cylake — did the most hiring, each hitting the most postings we could track for a single company." ], "key_stats": [ { "label": "Companies tracked", "value": "124", "basis": "companies.n" }, { "label": "Posted for software engineer", "value": "21% of companies (26% of postings)", "basis": "hiring.history_12m.by_family[family=engineer]" }, { "label": "Fastest-growing role", "value": "AI / ML engineer, 55% recent share", "basis": "hiring.history_12m.fastest_growing" }, { "label": "AI-native hiring", "value": "11% of companies, 9% of postings", "basis": "hiring.history_12m.ai_hiring" }, { "label": "Hiring in the last 60 days", "value": "227 roles across 37 companies", "basis": "hiring_now_60d" }, { "label": "Median company size", "value": "36 employees", "basis": "companies.median_employees" } ], "sections": [ { "heading": "Who these companies are", "body": "This is a young group. Median headcount sits at 36 employees, and the bulk of companies fall between 20 and 99 people — early teams still shaping their first org chart. New York and San Francisco are the two biggest hubs, with 15 and 13 companies respectively, though the group is spread wide enough that no single city defines it.\n\nAt this size, every hire is a structural decision. That's visible in what they're posting for: there's no single department doing all the hiring, and the split between engineering and go-to-market is closer than you'd expect this early." }, { "heading": "What they hired for", "body": "Engineering still leads, but go-to-market isn't far behind. Software engineer was the top hiring line over the last year — 21% of these companies posted for it, and it made up more than a quarter of all postings. But demand generation and account executive roles were close seconds, at 17% and 16% of companies.\n\nThat's a different shape than a lot of early-stage hiring narratives assume. These companies aren't purely building before they sell — product management also showed up at 13% of companies, meaning a reasonable share are staffing product leadership alongside engineering, not after it." }, { "heading": "The role growing fastest", "body": "AI / ML engineer is the one to watch. It's the fastest-growing role in the portfolio, measured among the most recent postings — 55% of its activity sits in just four companies, out of 14 companies that have hired for it at all over the year.\n\nThat's a sharper signal than the raw hiring share suggests: AI / ML engineer made up 11% of all postings over the twelve months, but its growth is concentrated, not diffuse. A handful of companies are doubling down on model and pipeline work specifically, rather than folding it into general engineering." }, { "heading": "Who's hiring AI-native roles", "body": "AI-native hiring — roles built specifically around AI or ML engineering — touches 11% of these companies and makes up 9% of all postings. The companies doing the most of it are allNeurons, Kaya AI, Arcade.dev, BAY6.AI and Jobright.ai, each with five or more AI-specific roles posted over the year.\n\nThat's a smaller group than the ones hiring engineers generally, which tells you something: most seed-stage AI companies are still building with general engineering talent, and only a subset have reached the point of hiring specialists into AI-only seats." }, { "heading": "Who did most of the hiring", "body": "A short list of companies account for a disproportionate share of activity. AlgorithmX, Arcade.dev, avante, BAY6.AI, Circle Health, Codeable, CodeplixAI and Cylake each hit the most postings we could track for a single company over the year — the busiest hiring you'll find in this group. avante and Cylake in particular were still posting through the most recent window, with Cylake posting an Applied AI Engineer role and avante a Senior Customer Success Manager role in the last 60 days.\n\nLeadership-level roles were rarer but notable: DualEntry posted for Head of Product Design and VP Sales, Kaya AI posted Head of AI and Labs, avante posted Head of Finance, and HuLoop Automation posted VP of Customer Services & Success — all within the last several months." }, { "heading": "What to watch", "body": "Nobody in this group has a confirmed CRO change or a leadership seat we've flagged as vacant right now — the signal to watch instead is how AI-engineer hiring spreads beyond the current four companies driving its growth. If that widens, it says the shift from general engineering to AI-specialist hiring is becoming standard at seed stage, not a habit of a few outliers.\n\nIn the meantime, go-to-market hiring is active and current: in just the last 60 days, companies like RECRIVIO, OpenObserve, DualEntry and CodeplixAI posted roles spanning business development, customer success, and marketing operations, alongside the usual run of engineering postings." } ], "faq": [ { "q": "What are the top recruiting strategies for seed-stage startups?", "a": "Among the seed-stage AI companies we track, the clearest pattern is parallel hiring, not sequential hiring: 21% of companies posted for software engineers over the last year, but demand generation (17%) and account executive (16%) roles were nearly as common. Strategy-wise, that means building go-to-market capacity early rather than waiting until the product is finished." }, { "q": "What's the hiring strategy for startups at the seed stage?", "a": "Based on a year of postings across 124 seed-stage AI companies, the strategy that shows up most is covering engineering, product, and early go-to-market roles simultaneously rather than in strict order — engineering led at 21% of companies, with product management at 13% and account executive at 16% close behind." }, { "q": "Who recruits AI engineers for seed-stage companies?", "a": "In this group, AI / ML engineer hiring is concentrated: 14 companies posted for it over the year, with allNeurons, Kaya AI, Arcade.dev, BAY6.AI and Jobright.ai doing the most of it, at five or more roles each. It's also the fastest-growing role we track, with over half of its most recent postings sitting in just four companies." }, { "q": "Which are the fastest-growing seed AI companies and who are they hiring?", "a": "We don't track growth metrics like revenue or user counts for these companies, so we can't rank them by company growth. What we can say is which companies have done the most hiring: AlgorithmX, Arcade.dev, avante, BAY6.AI, Circle Health, Codeable, CodeplixAI and Cylake each posted the most roles we could track for a single company over the last year, spanning engineering, AI/ML, data, and go-to-market seats." }, { "q": "Are seed-stage AI companies hiring leadership roles right now?", "a": "Leadership postings were present but limited: DualEntry posted Head of Product Design and VP Sales, Kaya AI posted Head of AI and Labs, avante posted Head of Finance, and HuLoop Automation posted VP of Customer Services & Success, all within the last several months. We don't currently track any confirmed CRO changes or open leadership searches in this portfolio." } ], "limitations": "This piece covers 124 companies in the census, 105 of which have a usable headcount reading. Live job-board reads haven't run for this panel yet, so current open-role counts aren't available; the hiring figures above come from twelve months of posting history covering 37 companies and 490 postings, capped at the 20 most recent postings per company, with 17 companies hitting that cap — meaning earlier-quarter activity for those companies is undercounted and shouldn't be read as a full year's volume. The 'hiring now' figures come from a separate 60-day job-board read and reflect only what's currently posted, not the full year. 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