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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.
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.