# Remotebase

> Remotebase began as a pandemic rescue operation for engineers whose client work had vanished, then became a marketplace for vetted remote talent. Today it presents itself more like a forward-deployed engineering partner: clients bring a workflow, feature, system or bottleneck, and Remotebase supplies engineers who work inside the client environment through production. The connective tissue is the same - a global talent network, structured assessment and a commercial promise to make scarce engineering capacity available quickly.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** San Mateo, United States
- **Founders:** Qasim Asad Salam (Co-founder and CEO), Talha Masood (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** Forward-deployed engineering, Vetted remote engineering teams, AI product and data engineering, Talently.ai development, Axis
- **Notable:** Turned a manual pandemic-era effort to preserve engineering jobs into a funded cross-border talent company., Raised $3.5 million across a 2021 seed round and a 2022 pre-Series A round., Reported 85,000 vetted engineers, 120-plus staff, six countries and more than 30 cities in early 2023.

## Products & services

- **Forward-deployed engineering** — Embedded engineering capacity that takes ownership of a client workflow, feature, system or bottleneck from discovery through production.
- **Vetted remote engineering teams** — Matching, onboarding and ongoing support for remote software engineers across product, data, AI, QA, UX and DevOps roles.
- **AI product and data engineering** — Prototyping and delivery for generative AI, machine learning, computer vision, data platforms and integrations.
- **Talently.ai development** — A voice-based AI interview product developed from an earlier text-based Interview-AI concept, with recordings, summaries, reports and pipeline management.
- **Axis** — A Remotebase-backed service matching small businesses with remote accounting and finance professionals, using a human-plus-AI vetting process and a two-week trial.
- **Two-week trial** — A trial engagement in which clients can evaluate a matched engineer or team before committing to payment, subject to current commercial terms.

## Achievements

- Turned a manual pandemic-era effort to preserve engineering jobs into a funded cross-border talent company.
- Raised $3.5 million across a 2021 seed round and a 2022 pre-Series A round.
- Reported 85,000 vetted engineers, 120-plus staff, six countries and more than 30 cities in early 2023.
- Ran a 2021 virtual Hackfest with more than 2,600 participants and a prize pool above PKR 2.5 million.
- Reached number four on Product Hunt's daily leaderboard on August 2, 2022.
- Reported being cash-flow positive in a January 2023 founder interview.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — The company website now leads with forward-deployed engineering and a stated network of more than 350,000 vetted engineers, a notable change from its earlier recruitment-first positioning.
- **2026** — Remotebase extended its talent model into finance through Axis, a service for placing remote accountants and finance professionals with small businesses.
- **2026-03** — Remotebase promoted an Applied AI Series discussion focused on moving enterprise AI from pilots into trusted production workflows.
- **2024** — A Remotebase case study described rebuilding Interview-AI into the voice-based Talently.ai product over roughly one year.

## Links

- Website: https://remotebase.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/remotebasehq
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/remotebasehq
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/remotebasehq/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/remotebasehq/

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Last updated: 2026-09-28