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Xcout Intel reads hiring and posted pay directly from employers' own careers sites — the applicant-tracking systems behind them, such as Greenhouse, Lever, Workday and Ashby — not from job boards or aggregators. Funding comes from public filings and news, visa data from US Department of Labor disclosures. Every report below is open to read without an account and to quote with attribution; the methodology explains how each is built and what it does not show.
Hiring & pay
Read from employers' own careers sites (applicant-tracking systems), not from job boards or aggregators.
Hiring Pulse
According to Xcout Intel's Hiring Pulse for the week ending 1 November 2026: Care jobs rose. Marketing and product roles lost ground.
Pay Pulse
According to Xcout Intel's Pay Pulse for October 2026: Jobs that ask for AI skills advertise 17% more pay. At the same employer, the median gap is zero.
Where Big Pharma is hiring
Every open job on the careers sites of the largest pharmaceutical companies, counted once per requisition, by country and company.
How the Fortune 500 is hiring
Every open job on Fortune 500 careers sites: what they hire for, where, at what level, how much involves AI and what they advertise to pay.
How the S&P 500 is hiring
Every open job on S&P 500 careers sites: job families, countries, seniority, AI share and advertised pay.
US visa sponsors
H-1B labor condition applications and PERM green-card certifications filed since FY2020, from US Department of Labor disclosure files, for all employers, the Fortune 500, the S&P 500 and unicorns.
Capital & investors
Funding rounds, exits and fund closes from public filings and news, with the source of each figure kept.
Capital tracker
Private funding and exits over the last four quarters: how many companies raised, how much, who backed them, and which markets and sectors — with M&A and IPOs.
VC fundraising tracker
Venture and growth fund closes reported in the news since January 2024: firm, fund, size, country, and what each firm has led since.
Defense tech investors
The venture firms, corporates and government funds backing defense-technology startups over the last 24 months, every link to its round's source.
Private companies past $100M ARR in 2026
Private companies that reported $100 million or more of ARR or annualised revenue in 2026, each figure labelled, dated and linked to its source.
The world's unicorns
According to Xcout Intel, 500 private companies had a latest funding-round valuation of $1 billion or more as of 2 November 2026.
Biotech venture funding
Venture rounds of private biotech and drug-development companies since 2022: dollars by year, median round, stage mix, the largest rounds and most active investors.
Home or away · Israel, France, India and Canada
Venture-backed startups by founding country: where they are registered, whether home-country or US investors back them, and where their new jobs are.
Co-investment network
Which investors back the same companies: an interactive map of the investor graph behind Xcout Intel's funding data.
AI
AI measured from what companies hire for and fund, not from what they announce.
AI capital
The investments technology companies make in each other: who funded whom, the size of each round and when.
Xcout AI Rank
A 0-100 score of how AI-engaged a company is, measured from its own job descriptions, with month-over-month trend.
AI adoption
How many companies name each AI tool (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and others) in their job descriptions; counts are floors, not totals.
Xcout Green Rank
A 0-100 score of how sustainability-focused a company is, measured from its own job descriptions.
Sector landscapes
Who is in a sector, classified from each company's own description.
All sector landscapes
Every sector landscape in one table, with its categories and company counts.
The Cybersecurity Landscape
Cybersecurity vendors classified into categories (endpoint, cloud, identity, AppSec and more) with a similarity score against each category leader.
The AI Landscape
AI-native companies classified into categories (foundation models, infrastructure, agents, coding and more) with a similarity score against each category leader.
The Gaming Landscape
Video-game companies classified into categories (studios, publishers, engines, esports and more) with a similarity score against each category leader.
Answers
Common questions about hiring, pay, visas, capital and AI, each answered in one sentence with a dated figure from the reports above: all answers.
How to cite
Name the report, the edition and the page:
Xcout Intel, <report>, <edition>, intel.xcout.app/<path>For example: Xcout Intel, Hiring Pulse, week ending <date>, intel.xcout.app/insights/hiring-pulse/<date>. Weekly and monthly reports keep a frozen page for each edition; cite that one so the figure still matches after the next edition. Full terms are on the attribution page.