The recruiting platform that hands machines the search - and keeps humans on the judgment.
New York, NY / Founded 2014 / B2B SaaS
THE MARK. Fetcher's wordmark, born from a 2014 networking app called Caliber - the legal entity is still, quietly, named Scout Technologies.
Recruiting has a dirty secret: most of the week is spent searching, not hiring. A talent acquisition team can burn hours scrolling professional networks, copying names into spreadsheets, and drafting cold emails that never get opened. Fetcher, a New York software company, built its business on automating exactly that grind - the top of the funnel, where the tedium lives.
Point Fetcher at a role and its AI scans a database of roughly 500 million professional profiles, matching candidates to the criteria a recruiter defines. It then drafts and sends personalized outreach - in multiple languages, with follow-ups - and measures who replies. The sourced candidates flow directly into the applicant tracking systems recruiters already use, so nothing has to be re-keyed.
The wrinkle that defines the company: Fetcher does not trust the machine to have the last word. Before a batch of candidates reaches a recruiter's inbox, human sourcers review and quality-check it. That hybrid - software for scale, people for judgment - is the through-line of everything Fetcher sells.
"Fetcher aims to help organizations engage the talent that will transform business aspirations into reality."
AI scans ~500M profiles to match candidates to a role; human sourcers vet each batch before delivery.
Generates personalized, multilingual email sequences and follow-ups, optimized for response rate.
A directory to store, organize and re-engage sourced candidates for long-term talent relationships.
Tracks sourcing effectiveness, funnel metrics, outreach performance and diversity demographics.
Connects to 20+ systems - Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters, BambooHR, Jobvite - via unified API.
The quality-control layer that separates Fetcher from spray-and-pray automation.
The AI sourcing category is crowded - SeekOut, hireEZ, Gem, Entelo, the newer PeopleGPT-style tools, and LinkedIn Recruiter all compete for the same talent-acquisition budgets. Most lean hard on full automation. Fetcher's differentiator is the human check: a person reviews the AI's output before a recruiter ever sees it, a deliberate trade of pure speed for fewer bad matches.
Commercially, Fetcher is a straightforward B2B SaaS. Published plans start around $379 a month for its Growth tier and roughly $649 for Amplify, with custom Enterprise pricing above that; typical annual contracts land near $11,000. The company says revenue tripled in the year before its 2022 Series B - a sign that lean hiring teams will pay for leverage that replaces hours rather than headcount.
$40M+ raised in total. Series B: $20M equity + $7M debt, led by Tola Capital.
The Series B funded international expansion - the UK and Benelux markets - plus new ATS integrations and CRM capabilities, along with a VP of Sales for EMEA.
Fetcher started in 2014 as Caliber, a professional networking app built by Andres Blank, Chris Calmeyn, Javier Castiarena and Santi Aimetta. When the network stalled, the team did not scatter - they pivoted the technology toward recruiting and kept working together.
Blank leads as CEO; Calmeyn, whose email still runs on the old usescout.com domain, drives product. The persistence of that original name - Scout Technologies remains the legal entity - is a small monument to a company that found its business inside the failure of its first idea.
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Four founders launch a professional networking app in New York.
The team repositions around automated sourcing and outreach - the seed of Fetcher.
G20 Ventures leads a round to scale the platform and diverse candidate pipelines.
Tola Capital leads; 10+ ATS integrations and CRM features ship, and Fetcher expands into Europe.
It automates candidate sourcing and outreach - finding qualified candidates from a database of roughly 500 million profiles, having human sourcers vet them, and sending personalized outreach on the recruiter's behalf.
It uses a human-in-the-loop model. AI identifies candidates, but human sourcers review and quality-check each batch before it reaches the recruiter, rather than relying on automation alone.
Corporate talent acquisition teams at over 1,000 organizations across four continents, including Behr Paint, Albertsons, Foursquare and Socotra.
Published plans start around $379/month (Growth) and $649/month (Amplify) on annual billing, with custom Enterprise pricing; typical annual contracts run near $11,000.
More than $40 million in total, including a $27 million Series B led by Tola Capital in 2022 and a $6.5 million Series A in 2021.