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startup.jobs is a job board operated by Killbridge Ventures, a Singapore company, with a copyright line running from 2016. Its promise is all startup jobs in one place, and it works like a classic board: an employer pays $299 for a listing that stays live for 30 days, $99 more for a highlight, and larger sums for sponsorship, with a Spotlight tier at $2,999 a month that includes unlimited posts. Its terms describe it as a distributor, not a publisher, of the content, with the right to delete posts it deems a bad fit; no review before publication is described.
For job seekers browsing is free and needs no account. There is a paid tier, Startup Jobs Plus, at $15 a month billed quarterly or $19 a month, which the site says unlocks the newest listings, instant alerts and salary filters, with a 24-hour head start on new roles. Filters cover workplace type, job type, experience level from under one year to six-plus, time posted and nine role families. There is no funding-stage or company-size filter; company cards carry a recently funded badge and a job count.
Its European footprint is broad and shallow by design. A locations index lists about 45 European countries, and city pages with role sub-pages exist down to Brussels and Ghent, each marked updated daily. The site publishes no live total of jobs or companies. Its trends page reports 1,970,341 jobs posted over the previous twelve months, 1,119,673 of them in the United States, with the caveat that the figure reflects both hiring trends and its growing platform coverage.
The honest difference is who decides what gets listed. On startup.jobs a company is on the board because it paid $299, and a candidate sees the newest roles first because they paid for Plus. Neither is hidden; it is the business model of most job boards. StartupMap has no posting fee and no seeker tier. Its 4,569 European startups were each checked by a person and got in for being funded or accelerator-backed; its 16,229 live roles are read from the startups' own careers sites, and everyone sees all of them at the same time, on a map, without an account.
Last reviewed: September 2026
| Compare | StartupMap | startup.jobs |
|---|---|---|
| How a job gets listed | Read from the startup's own careers site; free | $299 per posting, live 30 days; $99 for a highlight |
| Company vetting | Funded or accelerator-backed, hand-reviewed before it appears | Distributor, not publisher; posts removed afterwards if a bad fit |
| Newest listings | Everyone sees everything at once; last 48 hours filter | Plus members get a 24-hour head start ($15 to $19 a month) |
| Salary filter | None | Plus only |
| Funding-stage filter | Pre-seed to Series D, plus accelerator and investors | None; a recently funded badge on company cards |
| Live roles | 16,229 at 4,569 European startups | No live total published; 1,970,341 postings in twelve months (its trends page, with its own caveat) |
| European geography | 55 cities on a map, each a page | About 45 country pages plus city and role sub-pages |
| Freshness | Re-synced nightly from each startup's careers site | 30-day listings; city pages marked updated daily |
Someone pays for it. The pricing page is clear: each listing costs $299 and stays active for 30 days, a highlight adds $99, and auto-renew bumps a role back to the top each month. Larger buyers take bundles or a $2,999 monthly Spotlight with unlimited posts. The company behind the job is whoever bought the post: startup.jobs calls itself a distributor rather than a publisher of the content and reserves the right to remove posts it deems a bad fit, but describes no check before a listing goes live and no requirement that the company be funded. That is normal for a job board, and it means the catalogue is a picture of who is paying to recruit this month. StartupMap's roles are not posted at all: they are read from each startup's own careers site, and the startup is there because it was funded or accelerator-backed and someone checked.
Bottom line: On startup.jobs a company is listed because it paid $299; on StartupMap because it was funded and someone checked.
Plus costs $15 a month billed quarterly, or $19 month to month, and the site describes three things it unlocks: the newest listings, instant alerts and salary filters, with a 24-hour head start on new roles. In other words, the free board is a day behind and cannot sort by pay. Whether you need it depends on how contested the roles you want are: a 24-hour edge matters for a popular remote role and not much for a niche one. What the site does not say is whether basic email alerts are free, so this page does not claim it. StartupMap has no tier to buy. Every role appears for everyone as soon as the nightly sync reads it, and the last 48 hours filter is free, though there is no salary filter to unlock because salaries are not shown.
Bottom line: startup.jobs holds the newest roles for paying members for a day; StartupMap shows every role to everyone at once.
No. The filters are workplace type, job type, experience level, time posted and role family. There is no funding-stage filter, no company-size filter and no investor filter; the closest signal is a recently funded badge on some company cards, and a company page shows a job count rather than headquarters, size or funding. That is the trade-off of a board that anyone can post to: it does not hold the data to filter on. StartupMap only lists funded or accelerator-backed startups, so the stage is known for each one and filterable from pre-seed to Series D, alongside sector, accelerator and the investors on the startup's profile.
Bottom line: startup.jobs cannot filter by funding stage because it does not know it; StartupMap knows it for every startup.
Within the rules of a 30-day listing, yes. City pages such as Brussels are marked updated daily, a posting's structured data carries a date and a 30-day validity window, and the homepage shows relative dates. What the site does not publish is what happens if a role is filled in week one: a paid listing is live for the period paid for, and there is no stated mechanism for the employer's own careers page to close it early. That is the structural difference from a board that reads careers sites. StartupMap reads each startup's careers site nightly, so a role closed at the source disappears the next morning and never sits on a paid clock. 1,738 European startups currently show at least one live role.
Bottom line: startup.jobs listings run on a 30-day paid clock; StartupMap's disappear the morning after the startup closes them.
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