Fetcher is a New York-based AI recruiting platform that automates the top of the hiring funnel - finding, verifying, and reaching out to qualified candidates so talent acquisition teams can spend their time interviewing instead of searching. It pairs machine learning against a database of roughly 500 million professional profiles with human sourcers who quality-check every batch, then delivers vetted candidates and automated, personalized outreach directly into recruiters' inboxes and applicant tracking systems.
Greenhouse Software is a New York-based hiring platform that helps companies run structured, data-driven recruiting. Founded in 2012 by Daniel Chait and Jon Stross, it centralizes applicant tracking, interview scorecards, candidate sourcing, onboarding and reporting into one system used by more than 7,500 organizations. Rather than pushing automation for its own sake, Greenhouse pitches 'structured hiring' - a consistent, comparable process for evaluating candidates - and has layered in AI tools and fraud detection to keep that process reliable as application volumes surge.
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.
ModernGuild is a New York-based career mentoring and recruiting company that helps early-career and college students break into finance and consulting. Founded in 2011-2012 by Adrien Fraise, it pairs online career curriculum with live 1-on-1 coaching from in-field practitioners, and has evolved into a B2B marketplace using blinded candidate dashboards and matching algorithms to reduce bias in campus recruiting.
Anne Murray is the Executive Business Partner in the Office of the CEO at Karat, the Seattle company that runs technical interviews as a service for companies hiring software engineers. She is the person who keeps a fast-moving executive suite running: calendars, communications, relationships, and the thousand small logistics behind a Series C startup. Before Karat she spent years as a senior executive assistant to C-suite leaders at Outreach and Zillow Group, ran her own consulting shop, and worked inside the studio that built Second Life. She is also connected to Karat's Brilliant Black Minds initiative, the company's mission to open access to engineering careers.
Karat is a Seattle-based company that runs technical interviews on behalf of employers through its 'Interviewing Cloud' - a global network of trained Interview Engineers who conduct 24/7 live, structured technical interviews backed by enterprise infrastructure and hiring analytics. Used by enterprises like Roblox, American Express, Intuit, Pinterest and Wayfair, Karat lets engineering teams scale hiring capacity, reclaim engineer time, and make fairer, more consistent hiring decisions.
Findem is an AI-powered talent intelligence platform built on a proprietary Talent Data Cloud that enriches candidate profiles with 3D data (people, company, time). It automates sourcing, CRM, analytics and executive search for enterprise talent teams, with customers including RingCentral, Nutanix, and Intuitive Surgical.
Hariharan Kolam (Hari Kolam) is the co-founder and CEO of Findem, an AI-powered talent data platform headquartered in Redwood City, California. A serial entrepreneur with 20+ years building technology companies, he previously co-founded Instart Logic as CTO, accumulating over 50 technology patents. At Findem, Kolam is reimagining recruitment by replacing resume-based hiring with 3D candidate profiles that synthesize data from over 100,000 sources and 1.6 trillion data points - turning talent acquisition from a guessing game into a data science problem. Under his leadership, Findem raised a $51M Series C in October 2025, bringing total funding to $124M.

Kelly Kinnard is Operating Partner and Head of Talent at Khosla Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms. She leads the talent function across 500+ portfolio companies, advising founders and CEOs on how to recruit and retain exceptional leaders. With a career that spans elite retained search firms, Oracle's cloud transformation, and Battery Ventures before landing at Khosla, Kelly has helped shape the executive teams driving some of tech's most ambitious bets. She is known for treating recruiting like relationship-building - equal parts strategy, empathy, and persistence.