The Hiring Tracker
The layoffs tracker shows who's cutting. This shows who's actually growing: which portfolio companies post new roles every week, and which job posts have sat open for months.
speedrun Companies Hiring Now
50 speedrun companies have 208 open roles, and 49 went up in the last 30 days. Small teams hire a few people at a time, so a single new role here is a big deal.
New Roles by Week
Every currently open role, grouped by the week it went up. Tall recent bars mean companies are adding roles now, not recycling old ones.
Bars count roles that are still open today, so older weeks undercount: roles that filled or closed have dropped off. Daily snapshots started 2026-11-10 and record openings and closings from then on, so this chart fills in with real churn data over time.
Who's Growing, Who's Pulling Back
Open roles today compared with archived copies of each company's job board. A board that keeps growing for months is a company that keeps hiring.
Purple points come from Wayback Machine copies of public job boards, one per month at most. Black points are the tracker's own daily snapshots. Only companies with 20 or more open roles and an archived board from at least 90 days ago appear here; most small startups' boards were never archived.
Who's Actually Hiring
Sort by new roles to find momentum. Sort by "Open >90d" to find boards full of evergreen or ghost postings.
| Last 12 months | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steady | 2,576 | 741 | 29% | 36% | 60d | – | ||
| Steady | 672 | 155 | 23% | 36% | 62d | +188% | ||
| Hiring fast | 376 | 154 | 41% | 28% | 39d | +242% | ||
| Hiring fast | 115 | 105 | 91% | 4% | <1d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 269 | 93 | 35% | 35% | 57d | +5% | ||
| Hiring fast | 167 | 82 | 49% | 18% | 32d | +6% | ||
| Hiring fast | 197 | 79 | 40% | 38% | 57d | +114% | ||
| Hiring fast | 189 | 71 | 38% | 26% | 42d | +66% | ||
| Steady | 324 | 70 | 22% | 46% | 85d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 77 | 69 | 90% | 3% | 12d | -38% | ||
| Hiring fast | 129 | 68 | 53% | 15% | 27d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 135 | 64 | 47% | 14% | 33d | +85% | ||
| Hiring fast | 111 | 64 | 58% | 15% | 18d | +29% | ||
| Hiring fast | 92 | 60 | 65% | 3% | 23d | +56% | ||
| Hiring fast | 142 | 49 | 35% | 39% | 57d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 140 | 48 | 34% | 22% | 47d | +54% | ||
| Hiring fast | 99 | 45 | 45% | 18% | 34d | +175% | ||
| Steady | 188 | 44 | 23% | 43% | 69d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 68 | 37 | 54% | 13% | 23d | +55% | ||
| Hiring fast | 95 | 36 | 38% | 37% | 55d | +25% | ||
| Hiring fast | 94 | 35 | 37% | 22% | 40d | +29% | ||
| Hiring fast | 75 | 34 | 45% | 16% | 32d | +63% | ||
| Hiring fast | 67 | 30 | 45% | 25% | 34d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 46 | 30 | 65% | 11% | 25d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 65 | 29 | 45% | 23% | 34d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 42 | 28 | 67% | 31% | 8d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 57 | 27 | 47% | 40% | 33d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 66 | 26 | 39% | 39% | 64d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 54 | 24 | 44% | 24% | 35d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 69 | 22 | 32% | 0% | 55d | +68% | ||
| Steady | 78 | 21 | 27% | 36% | 62d | – | ||
| Steady | 76 | 21 | 28% | 43% | 48d | +46% | ||
| Hiring fast | 49 | 21 | 43% | 12% | 35d | – | ||
| Steady | 112 | 20 | 18% | 53% | 92d | +8% | ||
| Hiring fast | 39 | 20 | 51% | 23% | 28d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 49 | 19 | 39% | 35% | 64d | – | ||
| Stale listings | 184 | 18 | 10% | 83% | 235d | +4% | ||
| Hiring fast | 49 | 18 | 37% | 29% | 36d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 30 | 18 | 60% | 3% | 20d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 24 | 18 | 75% | 13% | 14d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 39 | 17 | 44% | 23% | 40d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 23 | 17 | 74% | 9% | 8d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 22 | 17 | 77% | 14% | 9d | – | ||
| Steady | 130 | 16 | 12% | 58% | 102d | +81% | ||
| Steady | 188 | 15 | 8% | 30% | 49d | – | ||
| Steady | 58 | 15 | 26% | 28% | 58d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 28 | 15 | 54% | 21% | 27d | – | ||
| Stale listings | 92 | 14 | 15% | 73% | 254d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 19 | 14 | 74% | 16% | 12d | – | ||
| Hiring fast | 38 | 13 | 34% | 21% | 48d | – |
Real Hiring, Not Job Spam
A careers page with 40 open roles can mean fast growth or a backlog of posts nobody is working on. These signals separate the two.
Where the data comes from
Every day, a scheduled job reads each company's public job board through the Ashby, Greenhouse, and Lever posting APIs. Companies come from the a16z and speedrun portfolios on the speedrun talent network. Each daily snapshot is committed to the project's git history, so every number is auditable.
About half of speedrun companies don't use one of those three systems. For them, the tracker reads their listings from the speedrun talent network board. History before the first snapshot comes from Wayback Machine copies of the largest companies' job boards.
What the signals mean
- Hiring fast: 5 or more roles posted in the last 30 days, and at least 30% of open roles are new.
- Steady: new roles are going up at a normal pace.
- Quiet: roles are open, but nothing new went up in 30 days.
- Stale listings: 5 or more open roles, and 60% or more have been open longer than 90 days. These are often evergreen or ghost postings.
What this can't tell you yet
Job posts measure intent to hire, not hires. Daily snapshots fix part of that: when a role disappears, it was filled or pulled, and the churn rate shows how fast roles turn over. Headcount growth needs a verified source, which is the first item on the roadmap below. Ages come from each role's first-published date. A company that closes and reposts the same role resets that date. Daily snapshots catch those reposts going forward.
Where This Goes
Version 1 reads public job boards. The next versions add signals only speedrun can get.