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Wellfound puts the salary before the small talk
The former AngelList Talent built a marketplace around people who want startup jobs. Now it sells three ways to reach them, from a free listing to a recruiter who handles the introductions.
Avionté Staffing: The hire is only half the job
A staffing agency can fill a job and still lose money getting the worker paid. Avionté has spent two decades connecting the decisions, documents and dollars that come after “you’re hired.”
HRMC would rather see your work than your resume
A blueprint, a few pointed questions, and an interview slot: HRMC Acclaim turns the front end of hiring into one continuous encounter. Its wager is that employers lose good people long before they get to meet them.
Kariyer.net has 40 million CVs. Its next job is making them count.
Turkey’s recruitment veteran built its business on job ads. Now it is selling the work around the hire, from finding candidates to rehearsing the interview.
Gupy got Brazil hiring. Then came the rest of the job.
The Brazilian software company turned recruiting into a business spanning training, engagement and performance. Its harder assignment is making that expansion work for the people on both sides of the hiring screen.
The 43-Year-Old Staffing Software Firm That Became a Takeover Puzzle
Bond spent four decades turning the messy work of staffing into software. Then a public-market standoff, a £24.1 million sale and two mergers folded its hard-won expertise into Bullhorn.
BambooHR Put the Employee Record in Charge - Now It Wants AI to Run the Errands
The Utah software company turned a tidy employee database into a broad people platform used by more than 33,000 organizations. Its next trick is asking AI to do the administrative chasing - without losing the simplicity that made the product useful.
Viventium Bet the Future of Healthcare HR on the Weirdest Paycheck in the Building
Generic HR software assumes work is tidy. Viventium built around the opposite - then bought its way from first application to final paycheck.
SonicJobs Wants to Kill the Redirect - the 12 Seconds Where Job Hunts Go to Die
Ninety-five percent of job seekers quit before they finish applying. SonicJobs built an AI agent to do the quitting-worthy part for them - and turned the recruitment industry's worst funnel into its pitch.
impress.ai
impress.ai is a Singapore-based enterprise SaaS company that automates the recruitment workflow with AI. Its no-code platform uses conversational bots and structured, competency-based interviews grounded in I/O Psychology to source, screen, assess, engage and onboard candidates at scale. Enterprises such as DBS Bank, Singtel and Accenture use impress.ai to shorten time-to-hire, cut interview rounds and reduce bias while giving candidates a faster, fairer application experience.
ZenHR
ZenHR is a cloud-based Human Resources Management System (HRMS) built specifically for the Middle East, North Africa and Gulf region. It automates payroll, attendance, onboarding, performance and recruitment while staying compliant with local labor laws, social insurance (GOSI), and wage protection (WPS) rules. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Riyadh, ZenHR serves companies from small businesses to large enterprises across markets including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq.
Harri
Harri is a cloud-based human capital management and workforce management platform built specifically for the hospitality and frontline service industries. Founded in 2012 by hospitality operators, it unifies talent acquisition, onboarding, scheduling, time and attendance, compliance, and employee engagement into a single mobile-first system. Harri serves enterprise restaurants, hotels, and retailers - powering the operational backbone for tens of thousands of locations and millions of frontline workers, helping high-turnover, multi-location businesses hire faster, control labor costs, and keep teams engaged.
LANDED
LANDED is a New York- and San Francisco-based startup that builds generative-AI hiring software for high-volume, frontline employers - the restaurants, retailers, and hospitality chains that hire hourly workers by the thousands. Its platform automates the tedious parts of hiring - sourcing, resume reading, screening, text-message engagement, and interview scheduling - using proprietary AI models trained on data from more than two million hourly workers. Founded in 2019 by Vivian Wang and backed by Y Combinator, Javelin Venture Partners, Lightspeed, and others, LANDED serves 500+ brands including Five Guys, Cava, Panera, and Salt & Straw.
Ashby
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform that bundles applicant tracking, sourcing, scheduling, CRM, and analytics into a single AI-powered system used by companies like OpenAI, Shopify, Notion, Snowflake, and Ramp.
Simplify
Simplify is a San Francisco AI startup building a single home for the modern job hunt - a browser extension that autofills applications, an AI resume builder, an ATS-style scorer, and a tracker that replaces the spreadsheet. Founded in 2020 by three college students during the pandemic, it now claims more than 1.5 million job seekers and 200 million applications submitted through the platform.