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There are a lot of ways for a company to end up on a "best places to work" list. Most of them involve a submission form.
RepVue's rankings work differently, which is why we're glad to share this one: Deepgram came in at #17 on RepVue's list of the Best Venture-Backed Companies to Sell For for September 2026.
What the ranking actually measures
Deepgram’s featured slot in RepVue’s list
RepVue is a platform where sales professionals anonymously rate the organizations they work for. Reps score their employer across the dimensions that determine whether a sales job is actually good: compensation and quota attainment, leadership quality, product-market fit, inbound lead flow, culture, diversity, and professional development.
Those verified ratings roll up into a single score, and companies are ranked against one another.
Nobody nominates themselves. There's no application, no panel of judges, no marketing budget that moves the number.
The ranking, rather, is a direct readout of what the people carrying a number at a company say about the experience of carrying it there.
The venture-backed list narrows that further. As RepVue puts it, it's for people who "want to find a great company to work for that's still in the venture-backed stage" — somewhere you might take equity and help build something.
That's a specific kind of bet, and the people best positioned to tell you whether it's a good one are the reps already making it.
What our reps are saying
One Deepgram rep's review captures the thesis better than we could:
Three things stand out in that, and they're worth pulling apart — because each one maps to something that makes or breaks a sales job.
"Product works."
This sounds like a low bar until you've sold something that doesn't. Every AE knows the difference between a demo that closes deals and a demo that generates a list of caveats.
Deepgram's speech-to-text is used in production by companies that run voice at genuine scale, and it holds up under evaluation — which means our reps spend their time on the merits of the deal rather than managing around product gaps.
"Consistently iterated and improved."
Selling into a fast-moving market only works if the roadmap moves with it. When a prospect asks for something we don't have yet, the honest answer needs to be a date, not a shrug.
That's a function of how closely product and sales are wired together, and it's the kind of thing a rep notices every single quarter.
"If the bet on TTS works, watch out."
Voice AI is expanding from transcription into full conversational systems, and text-to-speech is a central piece of that. Our rep is describing the upside case: the reason someone takes a seat at a venture-backed company instead of a safer one.
Nobody's guaranteeing that outcome, including us. But a rep who can see the bet clearly and wants in is telling you something real about where they think this is headed.
If you're evaluating your next move
Most AEs looking at a new role are trying to answer a few questions that the job description won't touch. Are reps hitting quota, or is the number simply theater? Does leadership know what it's doing? Is the product something I can be proud to put in front of a buyer? Will this equity be worth anything?
A ranking built entirely from rep sentiment won't answer all of those. But it's a great starting point because the incentives point in the right direction. The people who filled out those ratings had nothing to gain from being generous.
We're growing our Account Executive team, and we'd love for you come in fully informed: Read the reviews and compare us to the other companies on the list.
Then, if the bet looks like one you want to make…
See the full RepVue ranking: https://www.repvue.com/rankings/venture-capital-backed
View open roles and apply: https://deepgram.com/careers
