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Dover and the Recruiter Who Comes With a Dashboard
Startups hire in bursts; recruiters have bills every month. Dover pairs a free hiring system with on-demand specialists, then makes the cost of the human work unusually visible.
TraqCheck checked the résumé. Now it wants to find the person.
After building a business in background checks, TraqCheck is moving into AI recruitment. Its $8 million Series A backs a bet that employers will buy the work, not just another dashboard.
Lever Wants Hiring to Feel Less Like Filing Cabinet Duty
Lever built its name by treating candidates as relationships, not paperwork. Its newest AI tools push that idea further - but the smartest buyers will test the reports before they fall for the tidy interface.
Manatal Puts the Hiring Mess on One Board
Manatal is the affordable ATS that wants your spreadsheet, inbox, job boards, and candidate notes in one calm place. The price is friendly; the buying decision depends on how much reporting, automation, and AI your team actually needs.
Amanda Hahn Spent Her Career Removing the Friction From Hiring
She started recruiting in her teens, learned the machinery from inside, then spent years making hiring technology legible. Amanda Hahn’s career is a study in what happens when the marketer has actually done the work.
Pinpoint Makes Complex Hiring Behave
The ATS for companies whose hiring process has grown extra limbs. Pinpoint turns regional rules, multiple brands and wildly different roles into one system people may actually use.
Abhishek Agarwalla
After thousands of hours hiring for an AI consultancy, Abhishek Agarwalla decided the first interview needed a new operating system. His path from petroleum engineering to Fabric is a study in staying close to the work.
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.
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.
Lydia Han
Lydia Han is the co-founder and CEO of ModernLoop, a recruiting operations platform she started in December 2020 to fix the chaos of coordinating hundreds of interviews. A product manager by training, she built Slack's calendar and Zoom integrations and set up Brex's interview process before founding the company through Y Combinator's W21 batch. ModernLoop has raised roughly $12.4M, including a $9M Series A led by Accel with the CEOs of Slack and Zoom writing checks, and powers hiring for companies like Ramp, Benchling, Chainalysis, and VSCO.