{ "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": "2026-10-17T20:29:57.993Z", "status": "published", "claim_check": "pass", "unsupported": [], "study": { "title": "Who's Hiring for AI Roles at Seed-Stage AI Companies — and What They're Hiring For", "summary": "These 124 seed-stage AI companies have been hiring engineers first and leaders almost not at all. The fastest-moving role right now is AI/ML engineering, and a small group of companies are doing almost all of the posting.", "key_insights": [ "Software engineer was the single biggest hiring category: 21% of companies with postings hired for it, accounting for 26% of all postings over the year.", "AI/ML engineer is the fastest-growing role in the portfolio, making up 55% of recent postings among the 4 companies hiring for it.", "AI-native hiring — people building the AI product itself — shows up at 11% of these companies, led by allNeurons, Kaya AI, Arcade.dev, BAY6.AI and Jobright.ai.", "A small cluster did most of the hiring volume: AlgorithmX, Arcade.dev, avante, BAY6.AI, Circle Health, Codeable, CodeplixAI and Cylake each logged 20 postings, the cap on what we tracked.", "In the last 60 days, 36 companies posted 220 roles, and engineering was still the top category, with 20 companies posting for it." ], "key_stats": [ { "label": "Companies tracked", "value": "124", "basis": "companies.n" }, { "label": "Median headcount", "value": "36 employees", "basis": "companies.median_employees" }, { "label": "Engineer share of 12-month postings", "value": "21% of companies, 26% of postings", "basis": "hiring.history_12m.by_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.ai_hiring" }, { "label": "Roles posted in the last 60 days", "value": "220 roles across 36 companies", "basis": "hiring_now_60d" } ], "sections": [ { "heading": "Who these companies are", "body": "This group skews small and young. The median company has 36 employees, and most sit in the 20-to-99 range. New York and San Francisco are the two biggest hubs, with 15 and 13 companies respectively, though the group is spread well beyond those two cities.\n\nThat size matters for how they hire: these aren't companies with dedicated recruiting functions yet. Most of what gets posted is the company's first or second hire into a given function, not a replacement or a backfill." }, { "heading": "What they hired for over the last year", "body": "Engineering dominates. Over the past twelve months, 21% of companies with postings were hiring software engineers, and those roles made up 26% of everything posted — the single biggest slice by a wide margin.\n\nAfter that, it's go-to-market: demand generation and growth marketing showed up at 17% of companies, and account executive roles at 16%. Product management came in at 13%. Leadership hiring was thin and scattered — a handful of postings for VP Sales, Head of Finance and similar titles, mostly at a few individual companies rather than a trend across the group." }, { "heading": "The role that's growing fastest", "body": "AI/ML engineer is the one role actually accelerating inside this portfolio. Among the 4 companies hiring for it, 55% of their postings are recent — a much higher recent share than any other function tracked here.\n\nThat's a different signal than overall volume. Software engineering has more total postings, but AI/ML engineering is where the newest activity is concentrated." }, { "heading": "Who's building AI-native teams", "body": "AI-native hiring — roles specifically for building the AI product, not just engineering generally — 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\nIt's a narrow group. Most seed-stage AI companies are still hiring generalist engineers to build the product; a smaller set has specialized enough to post for AI/ML roles specifically." }, { "heading": "Where hiring is concentrated", "body": "A handful of companies account for a large share of total posting activity. AlgorithmX, Arcade.dev, avante, BAY6.AI, Circle Health, Codeable, CodeplixAI and Cylake each hit 20 postings over the year — the most we tracked for any single company — spanning engineering, data, operations and go-to-market roles depending on the company.\n\nRight now, that same kind of concentration shows up in the last 60 days too: 36 companies posted 220 roles, with engineering again the single largest category at 20 companies. Recent examples include Cylake posting for an Applied AI Engineer, avante for a Senior Customer Success Manager, and DualEntry for an Executive Assistant in the Office of the CEO." }, { "heading": "What to watch", "body": "Watch the AI/ML engineer category closely — it's small today but moving faster than anything else in the portfolio, and a company that starts posting there is usually signaling a shift from general product-building to something more specialized.\n\nWatch leadership hiring too. Postings for titles like Head of Finance, VP Sales and Head of AI and Labs have shown up at a few companies — DualEntry, avante, Kaya AI, Finmile — and tend to mark an inflection point for a company moving past its first hires." } ], "faq": [ { "q": "What are the top recruiting strategies for seed-stage startups?", "a": "Based on what these 124 companies actually posted, the dominant strategy is simple: hire engineers first. 21% of companies with postings were hiring software engineers, more than any other function, followed by demand generation and account executive roles as the first go-to-market hires." }, { "q": "What's the hiring strategy for startups at the seed stage?", "a": "In this group, hiring starts with product-building roles — software engineers and, for a smaller set of companies, AI/ML engineers specifically — before go-to-market roles like demand generation and account executives ramp up. Leadership hiring (VP Sales, Head of Finance, and similar) comes later and is rare: only a few companies in the portfolio posted for those titles in the last year." }, { "q": "Who recruits AI engineers for seed-stage companies?", "a": "We track postings, not recruiting firms. Among seed-stage AI companies themselves, AI/ML engineer hiring is concentrated at a small set: allNeurons, Kaya AI, Arcade.dev, BAY6.AI and Jobright.ai posted the most AI-specific roles, together representing 11% of companies and 9% of total postings." }, { "q": "Which seed-stage AI companies are growing fastest and who are they hiring?", "a": "The fastest-growing hiring category across the portfolio is AI/ML engineer, where 55% of postings among the 4 companies hiring for it are recent. In terms of overall volume, AlgorithmX, Arcade.dev, avante, BAY6.AI, Circle Health, Codeable, CodeplixAI and Cylake posted the most roles of any companies tracked, each hitting 20 postings over the year." }, { "q": "Are seed-stage AI companies hiring right now?", "a": "In the last 60 days, 36 of these companies posted 220 roles, led by software engineering at 20 companies. Recent examples include Cylake hiring an Applied AI Engineer, avante hiring a Senior Customer Success Manager, and InstaLILY AI hiring a Recruiter for Sales." } ], "limitations": "This covers 124 companies in the census, 105 with a reliable headcount reading. Live job-board reads haven't run for this panel yet, so current open-role counts aren't available; the hiring sections instead draw on twelve months of posting history (489 postings across 37 companies) and a separate 60-day snapshot. 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