# Celential.ai

> Celential.ai built a human-assisted AI recruiting service that found and contacted passive engineering and sales candidates, then delivered interested people to hiring teams. The Sunnyvale company raised a $9.5 million Series A in 2021 and was acquired by Wellfound in 2024.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Sunnyvale, United States
- **Founders:** Andrew Dong (Co-founder; President and CTO in 2021), Ilias Beshimov (Co-founder; VP of Product in 2021)
- **Products:** Virtual Recruiter, Talent Graph, Virtual Recruiter for Sales
- **Notable:** Celential said recurring revenue grew sevenfold in 2020., Affinity reported approximately 30 hires over about two years, with roughly 40% women., OneSignal reported four engineering hires in three months and a 65% increase in warm engineering candidates.

## Products & services

- **Virtual Recruiter** — Human-assisted AI sourcing service that matches, contacts and delivers engaged engineering, product, data and tech sales candidates to hiring teams.
- **Talent Graph** — Candidate and company knowledge graph that aggregates public and partner signals for sourcing and matching.
- **Virtual Recruiter for Sales** — Extension of the sourcing and outreach service to technology sales roles.

## Achievements

- Celential said recurring revenue grew sevenfold in 2020.
- Affinity reported approximately 30 hires over about two years, with roughly 40% women.
- OneSignal reported four engineering hires in three months and a 65% increase in warm engineering candidates.
- Wellfound acquired Celential.ai in April 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2024-04** — Wellfound announced its acquisition of Celential.ai and said its technology was integrated into RecruiterCloud.
- **2022-12** — Celential.ai and HackerRank announced a partnership for technical hiring.

## Links

- Website: https://www.celential.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/celential
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/celentialai

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