# Spott

> Spott is an AI-native ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies, combining candidate and client records, semantic search, matching, note-taking, outreach, enrichment, analytics and presentations in one subscription product. The company began with a narrow candidate-report writer, discovered that legacy ATS architecture could not support the context it wanted, and rebuilt the whole system. Founded in 2024 by Lander Degrève, Manu Vanderveeren and Samuel Smeys, it reports more than 500 agency customers, 5,000-plus daily active users and $24.2 million in funding.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Lander Degrève (Co-founder and CEO), Manu Vanderveeren (Co-founder and COO), Samuel Smeys (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** AI-native ATS/CRM, Semantic search and matching, Conversation intelligence, Candidate engagement, Candidate presentations
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch., Grew from about €100,000 ARR in October 2025 to more than €1 million four months later, according to the company., Reached more than 500 agency customers and 5,000-plus daily active users across five continents by September 2026.

## Products & services

- **AI-native ATS/CRM** — A unified system for candidate, client, vacancy and placement records, with configurable views, permissions and multi-office workflows.
- **Semantic search and matching** — Natural-language search and explainable matching across CVs, notes, messages, emails and call transcripts, using vectorized data alongside relational records.
- **Conversation intelligence** — Call and meeting transcription, summaries and automatic profile updates designed to reduce manual note-taking.
- **Candidate engagement** — A unified inbox, personalized multi-channel sequences and communications across email, SMS, WhatsApp and connected tools.
- **Candidate presentations** — CV reformatting, branded reports, speculative shortlists and client portals generated from candidate and role information.
- **Data enrichment and analytics** — Contact-detail enrichment, continuously updated profiles, pipeline dashboards and revenue-oriented reporting.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch.
- Grew from about €100,000 ARR in October 2025 to more than €1 million four months later, according to the company.
- Reached more than 500 agency customers and 5,000-plus daily active users across five continents by September 2026.
- Raised $24.2 million in disclosed funding, including a $21 million Series A led by Balderton Capital.
- Made more than 100,000 historical candidate profiles and years of conversations searchable for H.W. Anderson.
- Won a 200-person, 12-country rollout at CGP Group to consolidate multiple ATS products.
- Opened offices in New York and Sydney alongside its Leuven operating base.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Raised a $21 million Series A led by Balderton Capital, bringing disclosed funding to $24.2 million.
- **2026-09** — Announced offices in New York and Sydney and a larger Leuven office; named Tycho De Saeytyd Head of US.
- **2026-07** — Launched a live integration with OneUp Sales for recruitment performance data, leaderboards and coaching.
- **2026-06** — Published CGP Group's plan to consolidate several legacy ATS products into Spott across 12 countries.

## Links

- Website: https://spott.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spottai/

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Last updated: 2026-09-28