Alma's visible sales team is five people — and after a $17M Series A, none of its six open roles adds a seller

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Research Alma (tryalma.com, the Palo Alto business-immigration company): its founders, its existing sales organization, and the roles it is currently hiring for.

Public-web reconstruction of Alma, the AI-native business-immigration law firm founded in late 2023 by Aizada Marat, Assel Tuleubayeva and Shuo Chen. It covers 12 named people (founders/executives, a five-person sales and revenue org, marketing-adjacent roles, and one former BDR), all six live roles indexed on Alma's official Ashby board, and funding facts triangulated across 60 source pages. This maps what the public web shows — not an authoritative employee census.

Public-web reconstruction as of 2026-10-27 — sourced from LinkedIn, theorg.com, press and Alma's own pages

Org map: founders to go-to-market, with the open-roles pipeline alongside

Hover any box for background and evidence. Colour marks the function; the hollow box is a former employee.

Founders & executive Sales & revenue org (current, 5 people) Marketing / community-adjacent Former (ended tenure) Open role — engineering Open role — finance/ops Open role — sales & marketing dept (not quota-carrying)

The current public sales and revenue org is five people — Head of Sales Niels Kvaavik, two account executives, a RevOps lead and a growth/biz-ops lead — most visible via Alma's page on theorg.com.

None of the six roles on Alma's official job board is an AE, BDR, sales-leadership or RevOps opening; the two "Sales & Marketing" listings are an immigration attorney for assessments & marketing and a part-time social video creator — see jobs.ashbyhq.com.

Alma announced a $17M Series A in September 2026 led by Bling Capital, with NEA, Forerunner, NFX, Conviction, Village Global and angels including John and Patrick Collison — law.com.

The only clearly ended sales tenure is Efrain Montalvo, Founding BDR from January to July 2026 per his profile on linkedin.com — the BDR seat has no visible replacement and no open posting.

Company-reported metrics — 98%+ approval rate, 2–3 week visa turnaround, 80% HR time savings — come from Alma's own materials and should be read as company claims: linkedin.com.

The three co-founders

Aizada Marat

Co-founder & CEO · Palo Alto · since Oct 2023

Harvard Law graduate with 7+ years of legal experience, including Cooley and McKinsey. Kyrgyzstan-born; built Alma after her own immigration ordeal.

techcrunch.com

Assel Tuleubayeva

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer · Palo Alto · since Oct 2023

Harvard Business School graduate with 7 years of fintech product experience, including SoFi and Ernst & Young; earlier a product manager at Step.

theorg.com

Shuo Chen

Co-founder & CTO · Palo Alto · since Oct 2023

Helped build Uber's Michelangelo ML platform and was head of AI & ML at SupportLogic; the technical anchor of Alma's AI-native pitch.

theorg.com

Current sales-org assessment

The visible commercial organization is lean and recent: Satvika D. (Senior AE, since March 2025) is the longest-tenured seller, while Favian Aveja (AE) and Alex Bunte (RevOps Lead – Growth) both joined in April 2026. Niels Kvaavik heads sales and Aryan Pareek leads growth and business operations. Marketing-adjacent people — Geeta Darubra (Immigration Attorney, Marketing) and Kelli J. (Head of Community & Insights) — sit outside the core sales org. With the Founding BDR gone since July 2026 and no sales openings on the board, Alma's post-Series A hiring is weighted toward engineering and operational scale, not direct sales capacity.

All six open roles on Alma's official board

Source: Alma's Ashby job board, indexed 2026-10-27. Compensation shown exactly as stated; blank where the posting states none.

Role	Department	Location	Compensation	Key qualifications	Source

Method: public-web reconstruction compiled 2026-10-27. People roster: 13 extracted rows merged to 12 people (duplicate "Assel" merged with Assel Tuleubayeva) from LinkedIn profiles, theorg.com, tryalma.com and press; source counts per person range 1–96 pages. Hiring: all 6 live roles indexed on Alma's official Ashby board, one row each. Funding and founder facts triangulated across 60 source pages; Dealroom's ~$5.1M pre-Series-A figure and CB Insights' $17M total conflict in scope, so no cumulative total is asserted. Approval-rate, turnaround and time-savings figures are company-reported. Evidence excerpts trimmed for space; qualifications truncated in the table.

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