Data-driven insights from analyzing AI startups, hiring patterns, roles, and market signals. Research you can use before you apply.
Our salary research combines job-posting compensation, funding stage, company size, and industry data. Start with the methodology, then explore the interactive charts.
Company maps, market structure, and the roles AI startups are building around.
We pulled every AI-agent company from our database of 1,692 startups: 301 building agents, 51 with $100M+ raised, and 167 actively hiring. Here's the map by category, with real funding and deduped job counts.
Read articleWe scanned job titles and company profiles from 1,500+ AI startups on fastaijobs.com, then cross-referenced with industry data. Here's the real tech stack behind the AI boom.
Read articleOpenAI made 18 acquisitions since 2023. Databricks, Anthropic, Perplexity followed. The AI middle layer (dev tools, infra, vertical SaaS) is being absorbed.
Read articleBetween 2024-2026, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta spent $20B+ hiring away AI startup teams through licensing deals that bypass antitrust review. We mapped every deal and its aftermath.
Read articleEntry-level supply, internships, and non-engineering paths into AI startups.
Of 28,414 open roles at AI startups, 325 carry an entry-level title. That's 1.1%. Four in five are internships, only 5.2% are remote, and Seed-stage companies post them at roughly five times the rate of growth-stage ones.
Read articleWe analyzed 35,450 AI startup job listings, only 1.3% are entry-level. Here's where those 458 jobs are by department and funding stage, and what early-career candidates should actually do about it.
Read articleNearly half of all AI startup job listings are outside engineering departments. We analyzed 35,450 jobs across 1,542 AI startups to show exactly which non-engineering roles are hiring, how the numbers break down by company stage, and what that means for your career.
Read articleWe analyzed 29,215 open roles across 1,044 AI startups. Nearly half aren't engineering positions. Here's the data on the most underrated career tracks in AI.
Read articleSalary evidence, equity signals, and funding context for evaluating an offer.
Among AI startups that advertise equity in their job postings, only 26% at Seed also advertise a 401(k). By Series C it is 67%. We read 28,414 postings to find out when a startup's comp package grows up.
Read articleWe pulled every 2026 funding round from our database of 1,692 AI startups: 334 rounds, 13 of them $1B or larger, and two seed rounds above $1B. Here's the full map by size and stage, with deduped hiring counts so you can see who's actually staffing up.
Read articleMost public datasets disclose comp for fewer than 1% of postings. We extracted base-pay ranges from 22,000 JD bodies and crossed them with funding stage, headcount, and industry. Three of our prior findings broke under the new evidence.
Read articleWe verified funding data for 1,190 startups and found that stage labels have become meaningless. $2B seeds, $900M Series A rounds, and 40% of early-stage funding going to $100M+ deals.
Read articleWe analyzed funding data from 1,044 AI startups and found a concentration so extreme it makes global wealth inequality look tame. Here's what it means for your career.
Read articleRemote availability, work intensity, and how hiring demand shifts by role.
4.7% of 28,406 open AI startup postings contain explicit language about extended hours, six-day weeks, or an unusually intense pace. Series B peaks at 7.3%, AI Infrastructure leads categories at 7.5%, and 14 companies produce more than half of every flagged listing.
Read articleWe analyzed 28,414 open roles across 1,824 AI startups: just 13.0% are advertised as remote-eligible, and funding stage barely changes that number. What the company builds changes it enormously, from 38.8% remote at cybersecurity startups down to 0.9% in defense and aerospace.
Read articleWe pulled every agent company from our database of 1,824 AI startups: 390 companies, 4,246 open roles, and a go-to-market share seven points above the industry average. Sales, forward-deployed engineering, and customer engineering are all over-indexed.
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