The interview notetaker has become a recruiting platform with $110 million in backing. Its wager: the conversation you were too busy typing to hear can teach the rest of the hiring process what to do.

The recruiter who helped Freshworks grow from 87 to 913 employees got tired of doing the busywork by hand. His answer is one colorful ATS that sources, scores, schedules, takes notes, and still expects a human to make the call.

BrightHire turns the messiest room in recruiting - the interview - into notes, evidence and searchable data. For talent teams, that can feel like getting both hands back; for candidates, the recording light deserves a proper conversation.

Screenloop turns the hiring meeting everyone half-remembers into a searchable, shareable record. For growing talent teams, its real trick is connecting that record to the scorecard, the candidate experience and the eventual quality of hire.
Textio is a Seattle-based software company that uses augmented writing - natural language processing and machine learning - to help managers and recruiters write clearer, less biased workplace language. Born from a linguistics PhD's research into how word choice shapes who applies for jobs and how feedback lands, Textio turned bias into something measurable: it scores job posts and performance reviews in real time and suggests fixes. In 2026 it extended that thesis into hiring with Lavalier, an interview-intelligence product.
Colleen Gallagher is the CEO of Textio, an AI-powered HR tech company helping organizations attract and develop top talent through bias-aware communication tools. A US Navy veteran turned finance executive, she rose through the ranks at Textio - from CFO to COO to CEO - bringing operational rigor and a conviction that most hiring fails because it mistakes likability for competence. Under her leadership, Textio launched Lavalier, an interview intelligence platform designed to replace gut-feel hiring with structured, evidence-based evaluation.