# Christopher Calmeyn

> Christopher Calmeyn is a New York based product designer and startup founder, best known as a co-founder of Fetcher, an AI recruiting platform that automates candidate sourcing and outreach across a database of hundreds of millions of professional profiles. He began his career in quantitative currency investing before moving into product design, and built a string of consumer and professional mobile products, including the business messaging app Caliber, before helping pivot that team into recruiting. That pivot became Scout, named after his dog, which later rebranded to Fetcher. Fetcher has raised more than $40 million and serves hundreds of corporate talent teams.

- **Role:** Co-Founder at Fetcher
- **Organizations:** Fetcher, Scout, Caliber, Piictu, Travelocity, Techstars
- **Education:** Bachelor of Arts, Boston College, Master of Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design
- **Known for:** Co-founded Fetcher, an AI recruiting platform used by hundreds of corporate talent teams, Helped raise more than $40 million across multiple rounds, including a $27M Series B, Co-founded and led product for Caliber, a professional networking and messaging app covered by TechCrunch, The Verge, Recode and The Next Web

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Worked in quantitative currency investing before moving into product design
- **pre-2013** — Product Manager at Travelocity; later Head of Product at Piictu, a mobile photo-sharing platform
- **2013** — Co-founded Caliber, a messaging and networking app for business professionals, serving as Chief Product Officer
- **2015** — Caliber debuts publicly as a business messaging app, covered by TechCrunch and others
- **2017** — Team pivots into recruiting; launches Scout, named after Calmeyn's dog
- **2018** — Scout rebrands to Fetcher in April 2018
- **2021** — Fetcher raises $6.5M Series A to automate parts of the recruiting process
- **2022** — Fetcher raises $27M Series B led by Tola Capital, bringing total funding past $40M

## Achievements

- Co-founded Fetcher, an AI recruiting platform used by hundreds of corporate talent teams
- Helped raise more than $40 million across multiple rounds, including a $27M Series B
- Co-founded and led product for Caliber, a professional networking and messaging app covered by TechCrunch, The Verge, Recode and The Next Web
- Guided the same core team through repeated pivots - Caliber to Scout to Fetcher - keeping the underlying automation technology alive
- Built Fetcher's product around a proprietary database of 500M+ professional profiles with diversity metrics and predictive candidate modeling

## Latest updates

- **2022-05** — Fetcher raised a $27M Series B led by Tola Capital to fund international expansion, ATS integrations and CRM features.
- **2023-11** — Shared thoughts on building trust in talent sourcing in a LinkedIn post tied to Fetcher's work.

## Links

- Website: https://createdby.cc
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriscalmeyn
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/calc
- GitHub: https://github.com/chriscalmeyn
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccal

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Last updated: 2026-07-22