# Juicebox

> Juicebox is a San Francisco AI recruiting company whose PeopleGPT search engine, outreach tools, CRM workflows, and autonomous sourcing agents help recruiters find and contact candidates across more than 800 million public profiles. Founded by David Paffenholz and Ishan Gupta in 2022, it moved from a failed consumer app and talent marketplace to a focused recruiting platform used by more than 5,000 teams, and raised an $80 million Series B at an $850 million valuation in March 2026.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** David Paffenholz (Co-founder and CEO), Ishan Gupta (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** PeopleGPT Search, Talent Insights, Outreach and CRM, Juicebox Agents, Agent 4.0 and Knowledge Vault
- **Notable:** Reached 30,000 users in roughly 60 hours after the first PeopleGPT launch in May 2023., Reached 2,000 customers with a four-person team before the 2025 Series A., Crossed $10 million in annual recurring revenue by September 2025.

## Products & services

- **PeopleGPT Search** — Natural-language people search across 800 million-plus global profiles from more than 30 sources, with smart ranking, profile enrichment, contact retrieval, and talent-pool analysis.
- **Talent Insights** — Interactive market analytics showing the companies, titles, skills, locations, and profiles inside a search pool.
- **Outreach and CRM** — Candidate projects, collaboration, contact enrichment, email sequences, analytics, and export or integration workflows for ATS and CRM systems.
- **Juicebox Agents** — Always-on sourcing agents that build searches, surface candidates, learn from feedback, recalibrate criteria, and can shortlist or email candidates automatically.
- **Agent 4.0 and Knowledge Vault** — A context layer that uses ATS records, notetakers, productivity tools, past searches, recent hires, and organization preferences before mapping a market and running a search.
- **Intake** — Records hiring-manager kickoff calls, generates a summary, shows live talent-market constraints, and launches an agent from the resulting context.
- **Juicebox MCP Server** — Connects Juicebox data and actions to ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible applications.

## Achievements

- Reached 30,000 users in roughly 60 hours after the first PeopleGPT launch in May 2023.
- Reached 2,000 customers with a four-person team before the 2025 Series A.
- Crossed $10 million in annual recurring revenue by September 2025.
- Grew to more than 5,000 recruiting teams by March 2026.
- Raised $116 million in disclosed capital and reached an $850 million valuation in March 2026.
- Reported more than 560,000 searches and 3 million candidate engagements by spring 2026.
- Named Talent Acquisition Company of the Year in the 2026 HR Tech Breakthrough Awards.
- Customer Vapi reported more than $100,000 saved on executive-search fees; Binti reported cutting average time-to-hire from 40 to 21 days.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Introduced richer healthcare-professional data, including license, specialty, training, certification, NPI, and institution signals in beta.
- **2026-08** — Launched Intake, which records role-kickoff conversations, surfaces live market constraints, and can start an agent from the call context.
- **2026-08** — Released Agent 4.0 with a Context Intelligence Layer, market simulation, connected workflows, and a Knowledge Vault.
- **2026-08** — Released a Juicebox MCP server for ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and other compatible AI clients, plus a Slack integration.
- **2026-05** — Made Juicebox Agents conversational, able to ask clarifying questions and revise their own search strategies.
- **2026-03** — Raised an $80 million Series B led by DST Global at an $850 million valuation, bringing total disclosed funding to $116 million.

## Links

- Website: https://juicebox.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/juicebox-work
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/juicebox_work

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Last updated: 2026-09-24