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Wizehire sells the hiring department you forgot to hire
Small businesses need someone to mind the hiring process while they mind the business. Wizehire pairs software with human coaches - and its new owner, Paychex, has a much bigger front door.
The Interview Remembers Everything
BrightHire turns the messiest room in recruiting - the interview - into notes, evidence and searchable data. For talent teams, that can feel like getting both hands back; for candidates, the recording light deserves a proper conversation.
Humanly Wants to Interview Everyone Before Breakfast
Applications arrive at machine speed. Humanly gives recruiting teams a way to answer at the same pace - then puts people back in charge when judgment matters.
HireVue Made the Interview Software. Then It Had to Explain the Machine.
The Utah company turned a missed campus interview into a global hiring platform. Its next act is harder: sell the speed of AI while proving that every score deserves to shape a person’s future.
Seth Tilliss Built the Recruiter That Never Sleeps
Reval began with reference checks, learned the whole hiring funnel, and ended inside Metaview. The useful lesson in Seth Tilliss's path is simple: automate the chore, then follow the work.
Reval Turned a Reference-Check Bot Into an AI Recruiting Firm - Then Sold the Whole Playbook
Reval started with the chore nobody wanted - reference calls - and ended up automating the top of the hiring funnel. Its three-year path from narrow tool to recruiting operator explains why Metaview bought the company, and what builders can copy without pretending hiring is a vending machine.
The Company That Reads the Internet So HR Doesn't Have To
Fama built AI that scans 10,000-plus public sources to catch the red flags a resume hides - then convinced the background-check giants to run on its engine.
Perfectly
Perfectly is an AI-native recruiting operating system that automates sourcing, outreach, screening, and qualification for fast-growing startups. Built by three ex-TikTok and Meta machine learning scientists, it treats hiring as a recommendation-systems problem: it learns a company's hiring preferences, reaches out to thousands of candidates, runs AI screens, and delivers interview-ready candidates directly into Slack. Backed by Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch, Perfectly counts startups like Giga, Corgi, LlamaIndex, Porter, and Mintlify among its early customers and charges only when a role is filled.
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.
X0PA AI
X0PA AI is a Singapore-based HR technology company that builds an AI-powered talent acquisition platform to make hiring more objective, faster and less biased. Founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur Nina Alag Suri, the SaaS platform uses machine learning, predictive analytics and natural language processing to source, screen, score and rank candidates for enterprises, governments and universities. It has since expanded into an agentic AI suite of named hiring agents and positions itself around responsible, explainable AI, having become one of the first HR-tech firms to earn Singapore's AI Verify certification.
FloCareer
FloCareer is an AI-powered and expert-led interviewing platform that lets companies outsource their hiring interviews at scale. Through its Interview-as-a-Service model it deploys a network of 8,000+ vetted industry interviewers (FloExperts), while its AI interviewer NIVO conducts automated screening and coding interviews around the clock. The company helps 700+ organizations run structured, proctored, unbiased interviews with fast turnaround, reducing recruiter load and time-to-hire.
Visage
Visage is a candidate sourcing platform that pairs a global crowdsourcing community of thousands of expert sourcers with AI to deliver pre-screened, qualified passive candidates directly into an employer's applicant tracking system. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves large enterprise recruiting teams at companies like IBM, Siemens and Nielsen, aiming to cut the time and cost of filling hard-to-fill and high-volume roles.
CoderPad
CoderPad is a San Francisco-based technical interview and assessment platform that lets engineering teams evaluate developers in a real, runnable coding environment instead of on a whiteboard. Founded in 2013 by ex-Google and Amazon engineer Vincent Woo, it pairs live collaborative interviews with asynchronous take-home screens across 40+ programming languages, and has hosted millions of technical interviews for thousands of companies. In 2021 it acquired CodinGame to add candidate assessments and a developer skill-building community.
HackerRank
HackerRank is a technical skills platform that helps companies screen, interview, and hire developers based on what they can actually build rather than what their resume claims. Founded in 2009 by Vivek Ravisankar and Hari Karunanidhi, the company runs a two-sided model: a community where millions of developers practice coding challenges, and an enterprise product that lets 3,000+ companies - including a large share of the Fortune 100 - assess candidates with real-world coding tests, live pair-programming interviews, and, increasingly, AI-assisted evaluation and proctoring.
Hirey AI
Hirey is an AI-first recruiting platform built around a chat-based hiring app and an AI agent named Rey that sources candidates, screens them, checks availability, and books interviews automatically. Founded in 2021 by Walter Wu and headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, Hirey focuses on high-volume, fast-turnover hiring in sales, caregiving, and healthcare staffing, where speed matters more than paperwork. The company says it has helped 500,000+ job seekers and is trusted by 10,000+ hiring companies, and it has raised roughly $14M through a Series A led in part by DST Global.
Gyfted
Gyfted is a Stanford-connected, remote-first HR-tech company that builds psychometric and cognitive assessments powered by behavioral science and AI. Its free consumer quizzes (Big Five, EQ, DISC, cognitive ability) draw millions of test-takers via organic search, while its B2B software helps founders, recruiters and team leaders screen candidates and hire for role and culture fit. Co-founded in 2020 by CEO Robert Kowalski with a team that includes Stanford GSB psychometrician Michal Kosinski as an adviser, Gyfted has raised roughly $1.3M in early funding.
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.
Qlay
Qlay is a San Francisco-based AI hiring company that sources, vets, and shortlists remote engineering talent - notably from Vietnam and Africa - and pairs it with an AI Proctor that catches AI-assisted cheating during interviews and coding tests. Using eye-gaze tracking, speech analysis, a phone-as-second-camera setup, and process monitoring, Qlay aims to make technical hiring both fast (shortlists in about a week) and trustworthy in an era when candidates can quietly lean on tools like ChatGPT.
SquarePeg
SquarePeg is an AI-native recruiting platform that acts as an intelligence layer on top of a company's existing applicant tracking system. It enriches, evaluates, and scores candidates - explaining every match - so lean recruiting teams can screen unlimited applicants, rediscover past candidates, source passively from 500M+ profiles, and filter out fraudulent applications without swapping out their tools. Founded by Claire McTaggart, the company raised a $3.5M seed round in early 2025 to build candidate-evaluation software for the modern recruiter.
Claire McTaggart
Claire McTaggart is the founder and CEO of SquarePeg, an AI-powered recruiting platform that acts as an intelligence layer on top of applicant tracking systems - screening, sourcing, enriching and scoring candidates beyond the resume. A former Monitor Deloitte strategy consultant who ran campus recruiting, she left a partner-track career to attack a problem she had lived: the resume is a terrible predictor of fit. Starting with psychometric matching and evolving into an AI evaluation engine integrated with 95+ ATS platforms, SquarePeg raised a $3.5M seed round in February 2025 led by Next Frontier Capital, bringing total funding to roughly $6.4M.
Alex
Alex is a San Francisco AI recruiting company whose voice and video agents conduct candidate interviews, screening, and scheduling at scale. Spun out of Y Combinator (W24, formerly Apriora), Alex automates the early, repetitive stages of hiring - phone screens, resume reviews, identity verification, and coordination - across video, phone, SMS, and WhatsApp in 26 languages. The platform has interviewed more than a million candidates for Fortune 100 companies, major banks, national restaurant chains, and Big 4 firms, cutting time-to-hire while letting human recruiters focus on relationships and final decisions.
Instawork
Instawork is an AI-powered on-demand staffing platform that connects businesses with vetted hourly workers across hospitality, warehousing, food service, retail, and light industrial sectors. Operating in 400+ cities across the U.S. and Canada, the company uses over 2 billion data signals to match businesses with pre-vetted workers, achieving a 98% worker show rate and filling 90% of jobs within 24 hours — metrics that traditional staffing agencies rarely approach. Founded in 2015 and backed by Y Combinator, Benchmark, Greylock, and TCV, Instawork has raised $171M and serves 15,000+ businesses, with a network of 10M+ workers. The platform handles everything from a single catering shift to large-scale distribution center operations.