Celeste Gudas started 24 Seven in 2000 to staff fashion and beauty brands. Twenty-five years and eight acquisitions later, it is the No. 2 marketing and creative staffing firm in America - and it is quietly betting that the future of hiring is a matching algorithm plus a human who has read 3,000 salary surveys.
VARITE INC is a San Jose-based technical consulting and staffing firm founded in 2000 by Adarsh Katyal. It supplies contract and permanent talent, team augmentation, and onshore/nearshore/offshore delivery to Fortune 1000 companies across technology, finance, life sciences, semiconductor, defense, and energy. With operations in the US, Canada, and India, VARITE pairs people with process - placing engineers, analysts, and specialists while running business-process and software delivery work. The company reported roughly $55.3M in 2024 revenue and runs on the motto 'Experience. Expertise. Excellence.'