Gusto is a U.S.-based cloud software company that provides payroll, benefits administration, hiring and onboarding, time tracking, and related HR tools. It primarily serves small and medium-sized businesses and their employees.
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Gusto is a hr tech company headquartered in United States. It has raised at least $465M across the 3 funding rounds on record. Its most recent funding round, Series E, raised $175M in July 2021. Xcout recorded 416 job postings from Gusto in the last 90 days, naming tools such as Claude, Jira, Salesforce.
At least $465M raised across the 3 rounds on record. Every round on record:
| Date | Round | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series E | $175M | — | |
| — | $200M | 13 named | |
| Series C | $90M | — |
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Xcout recorded 416 job postings from Gusto in the last 90 days, from a hiring record Xcout has kept since June 2026.
The weekly hiring trend, the roles and locations behind it — see Gusto's hiring signals →
Based on 266 job postings in the last 8 weeks (10 Aug – 4 Oct 2026), compared with 380 scale-up technology companies.
This describes a hiring pattern — how often Gusto’s job postings ask for AI skills, and how that changed against the previous 8 weeks, ranked among its peers. It says nothing about the company’s products or performance.
Signed-in members see the AI-skill share and its change with peer percentiles, role mix, posting momentum and advertised US pay against the market.
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