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Startup · United States

Sift

HQ Marina del ReyFounded 202251-200 employees

Sift builds a telemetry and observability platform for hardware engineering teams, unifying ingestion, storage, visualization and automated review of high-rate sensor data from test through operations. It was founded in 2022 by former SpaceX engineers and serves aerospace, defense, energy, robotics and transportation customers. Not related to Sift Science, the fraud-detection company.

StartupFielded
Website
Total raised
$67.0M
3 rounds
Last round
$42.0M
Series B · Mar 25, 2026
Systems
2
Most mature: fielded
Mentions
3
Latest Jun 2, 2026

News3

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Funding3 rounds · $67.0M

Equity raised
$67.0M
Latest
$42.0MSeries B · Mar 25, 2026
Cumulative raised$67.0M
Nov 7, 2023Mar 25, 2026

Raised counts equity rounds; debt, secondary sales and grants are totaled separately. Amounts in other currencies are converted at the announcement month's average rate. A ~ marks an estimated or converted amount.

Systems2

Sift

Observability platform that ingests, stores, visualizes and reviews high-rate hardware telemetry.

Fielded

Sift Edge

Edge software for low-latency telemetry monitoring, protocol translation, buffering and sync beside the hardware.

Limited fielding

Newest unveiled first. Open a system for its milestone timeline, components and sources.

Supply Chain2 facilities

Facilities2

  • Sift — El Segundo
    Headquarters · El Segundo, CA, United States
    Operating
    Reported
  • Sift headquarters (Marina del Rey)
    Headquarters · Marina del Rey, CA, United States
    Operating
    Confirmed

People5

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Hiring Observations10 observed listings

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Company Metrics

LinkedIn employee profiles
90
Observed Oct 13, 2026
Bright Data / LinkedIn · Source ↗
LinkedIn followers
14,217
Observed Oct 13, 2026
Bright Data / LinkedIn · Source ↗

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Sources13

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Profile3

  1. 1
    DatabaseSift - Crunchbase profile

    Crunchbase · Supports Organization · legal name, Organization · x url

    “legal_name: Sift Stack, Inc.”
  2. 2
    CompanySift | Observability Platform for Mission-Critical Hardware

    Supports Organization

    “The end to end platform for teams building advanced hardware. Bring every sensor into one place, turn raw data into decisions the same day, scale from first test to operations and beyond.”
  3. 3
    CompanyAbout Sift | Mission-Critical Hardware Observability

    Sift · Supports Organization · description

    “Sift is a unified observability platform for physical systems spanning design, validation, manufacturing, and operations.”

Systems2

  1. 4
    CompanyMission Critical | The Sift Engineering Blog

    Supports System

    “Sift, the data infrastructure platform for physical AI, has achieved FedRAMP High certification in partnership with Knox Systems, the largest federal managed cloud provider. The authorization gives federal agencies access to”
  2. 5
    CompanyGet telemetry into view and into Sift, wherever the test runs.

    Supports System

    “Sift Edge with your telemetry. Bring your protocol list, network constraints, and a sample of your telemetry to a 30-minute working session. Our engineers will map the path from your test site into Sift and scope your deployment”

Funding3

  1. 6
    CompanyWe Raised $42M to Replace the Legacy Tooling Hardware Engineers Still Depend On

    Sift · Mar 25, 2026 · Supports Facility, Funding round · amount, Organization · hq city

    “All from our new headquarters in Marina Del Rey.”
  2. 7
    NewsSift is building a better platform for analyzing hardware telemetry data

    TechCrunch · Jun 25, 2024 · Supports Funding round · amount

    “announced a $17.5 million Series A led by Google’s venture capital arm GV”
  3. 8
    NewsSift raises $7.5M to build a telemetry stack for the 'digital backbone to the physical world'

    TechCrunch · Nov 7, 2023 · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · investors

    “Sift recently closing $7.5 million in funding to scale its product”

Supply chain1

  1. 9
    DatabaseLinkedIn company profile

    LinkedIn · Supports Facility, Organization · description, Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · hq city, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · ownership, Organization · website, Organization metric · employees in linkedin, Organization metric · followers

    “locations: ['201 Arena St El Segundo, California 90245, US']”

People3

  1. 10
    CompanySift Achieves FedRAMP High Certification Through Partnership with Knox Systems

    Sift · Jun 2, 2026 · Supports Role

    “said Austin Spiegel, CEO and Co-Founder of Sift”
  2. 11
    CompanyTwo Cities, 80 People, One Mission

    Sift · May 13, 2026 · Supports Role

    “Ben Schmidt is our new Head of Sales, based in SF.”
  3. 12
    CompanyMeet the Founders | Austin Spiegel & Karthik Gollapudi

    Sift · Supports Organization · founded year, Role

    “Founders · est. 2022”

Other1

  1. 13
    CompanySift public job board

    Supports Job posting

    “Software Engineer, Frontend (Agentic AI)”

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