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Talogy puts the hiring hunch to the test
A good interview is a performance. Talogy wants to know what happens when the performance ends and the work begins.
Hired’s $30 million lesson: watch the clock
Hired made employers compete for talent. Its first batch produced $30 million in proposed offers and no hires - a rather expensive-looking reminder that a marketplace needs more than interest.
The Six-Minute Assessment That Followed You Into the Meeting
The Predictive Index began with a wartime question about teamwork. Seventy years later, its business rests on a more awkward one: what happens after you hire the right person?
Workable and the trouble with “just email it”
A shared inbox can hire your first employee. Workable built a business around what happens when it has to hire your fiftieth - and now wants to handle the work on both sides of the offer letter.
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.
Elip AI
Elip AI is a Y Combinator (W25) startup building an AI job agent that lives inside WhatsApp. It reads through millions of job postings overnight, filters out ghost and duplicate listings, and sends each user a short list of ranked, personalized matches by morning - plus tailored, ATS-ready resumes. It is free for job seekers; employers pay when they hire. Founded by Gaurav Luhariwala, the company is based in San Francisco with an Indian entity in Jaipur.
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.
Dalia
Dalia is a Boston-based candidate conversion platform that helps employers turn lost career-site traffic into qualified applicants and hires. Its automated software captures job seekers who visit but don't apply, then re-engages them through personalized SMS and email job remarketing. Founded in 2019 by Sam Fitzroy and Jason Whitman, Dalia is used by mid-market and enterprise employers including Compass Group, Ryder, Baptist Health South Florida, and Cleveland Clinic to increase applicant conversion and lower cost-per-hire.
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.
Paraform
Paraform is a San Francisco recruiting platform that connects companies with a network of 10,000+ independent recruiters and pairs them with custom AI agents to fill hard roles fast. Instead of betting that software alone can screen resumes, Paraform keeps humans in the loop and gives them AI tools plus white-glove operational support, handling intake calls, hiring-manager feedback, and payments. Companies like Palantir, Rippling, Cursor, and Cognition use it to meet candidates in days rather than months. Founded in 2022 by John Kim and Jeffrey Li, the company has raised $65M total, most recently a $40M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners in March 2026.
Jack & Jill
Jack & Jill is a London-based AI recruitment startup that replaces job boards and resume submissions with two conversational AI agents. Jack works for candidates - getting to know their skills and goals in a 10-minute conversation, scanning millions of jobs daily, and introducing them directly to hiring managers, all for free. Jill works for companies, learning what a team needs and surfacing well-matched people on a success-based fee. Founded in early 2025 by Omnipresent founder Matt Wilson and Kular.ai founder Saaras Mehan, the company raised a $20M seed round led by Creandum in October 2025.
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.
CoffeeSpace
CoffeeSpace is a mobile-first, AI-powered matchmaking platform that helps founders, talent, and startups find each other - swiping their way to a cofounder, a first hire, or a team to join. Often described as 'Hinge for cofounders,' it uses granular filters and dual-sided compatibility matching to pair ambitious builders by skills, working style, time commitment, and equity preferences. Founded in 2024 and based in San Francisco, the app has grown to 30,000+ users across 100+ countries.
Talent.com
Talent.com is a Montreal-born job search platform that aggregates tens of millions of job listings from career sites, staffing agencies and job boards into one searchable place. Originally launched in 2011 as Neuvoo, it rebranded to Talent.com in 2019, raised $120M US in Series B funding in 2022, and now operates across roughly 78 countries with AI-driven job matching, recruitment advertising for employers, and free tools like its widely used salary and tax calculators.
Karat
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.
Homebase
Homebase is a San Francisco-based workforce management platform built for small businesses running hourly teams. Founded in 2014, it combines employee scheduling, time tracking, payroll, HR compliance, and team communication in one mobile-first app. As of 2024, the platform serves over 150,000 businesses and 3.8 million hourly workers, having logged 8 billion hours and processed $3 billion in gross payroll. Backed by $198 million in total funding, Homebase competes by bundling tools that small business owners previously paid for separately - and more recently by embedding AI assistants across hiring, scheduling, and payroll.
Mercor
Mercor is an AI-powered talent marketplace that recruits domain experts - doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists - to train and evaluate frontier AI models for labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Amazon. Founded in 2023 by three Thiel Fellows, it has grown from a hiring tool into the human data backbone of the AI economy.
Workstream
Workstream is an HR, hiring and payroll platform built for the deskless economy - the 80 million Americans who clock in by the hour at restaurants, gyms, car washes and franchises. Founded in 2017 by three immigrants in San Francisco, it uses texting, voice AI and automation to cut time-to-hire by roughly 70% for chains like Burger King, Jimmy John's and Chick-fil-A franchisees.