# Censia

> Censia is a San Francisco-based talent intelligence company that uses AI to turn billions of workforce data points into skills-based profiles of employees and candidates. Its platform enriches HR systems - most notably Workday - so enterprises can see hidden internal talent, plan their workforce around skills rather than job titles, and make faster, fairer hiring and mobility decisions. Founded in 2017 and led by CEO Joanna Riley, Censia sells to large enterprises and pitches itself on ethical, bias-aware AI applied to talent data.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Joanna Riley (Co-Founder & CEO), Tim Johnson (Co-Founder & COO), Bruce Cooper (Co-Founder & Chief Engineering Officer)
- **Team size:** Approximately 92 employees
- **Products:** Employee Intelligence, Workday Integration & AI Agents, Talent Landscape, Benchmarking & Strategy Agent, Executive Intelligence, Talent Intelligence Platform
- **Notable:** Achieved Workday Certified Integration and joined the Workday Marketplace in March 2025, Named to the Workday Agent Partner Network in September 2025, CEO Joanna Riley honored by Goldman Sachs as one of the Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs of 2023

## Products & services

- **Employee Intelligence** — A unified skills data layer with Employee Profile Enrichment and Job Profile Enrichment that gives enterprises full workforce visibility and modernizes job frameworks.
- **Workday Integration & AI Agents** — Workday Certified integration plus AI agents like the Job Profile Enrichment Assistant that enrich Workday Skills Cloud and explain the reasoning behind AI-driven updates.
- **Talent Landscape, Benchmarking & Strategy Agent** — An AI agent that surfaces competitive talent benchmarks, highlights organizational blind spots, and recommends talent actions in near real time.
- **Executive Intelligence** — AI-driven executive search and assessment services combining retained search expertise with talent mapping.
- **Talent Intelligence Platform** — Core platform that aggregates billions of data points from 2,000+ sources into skills-based candidate and employee profiles for sourcing, matching, and workforce planning.

## Achievements

- Achieved Workday Certified Integration and joined the Workday Marketplace in March 2025
- Named to the Workday Agent Partner Network in September 2025
- CEO Joanna Riley honored by Goldman Sachs as one of the Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs of 2023
- Joanna Riley named to the Forbes Next 1000 list and won a 2021 Silver Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified for information security
- Raised a $48M Series B in September 2024

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Named among Workday Ventures portfolio companies in the new Workday Agent Partner Network for partner-built AI agents.
- **2025-03** — Achieved Workday Certified Integration status and launched Employee Intelligence on the Workday Marketplace.
- **2025** — Unveiled a next-gen AI agent purpose-built for Workday, including the Job Profile Enrichment Assistant.
- **2024-09** — Closed a $48M Series B round led with participation from Workday Ventures.

## Links

- Website: https://censia.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/censia
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/censia_ai
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Censia.Intelligence/

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Last updated: 2026-07-13