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Kariyer.net has 40 million CVs. Its next job is making them count.
Turkey’s recruitment veteran built its business on job ads. Now it is selling the work around the hire, from finding candidates to rehearsing the interview.
SEEK spent A$180 million to make three job boards think as one
The company that helped move Australian job ads off the newspaper page has rebuilt its machinery across Asia Pacific. Now it wants to earn more of its money from the work that happens after someone clicks Apply.
Naukri Put India's Job Hunt on File. Recruiters Pay to Open It.
A job board built from newspaper ads became a database of 118 million resumes. Naukri's next bet is that employers will pay it to do more of the hiring homework.
Adzuna wants to give job hunters their time back
First it gathered the vacancies. Then it estimated the salaries. Now Adzuna is applying for jobs on your behalf - while buying a bigger share of the recruitment business.
Mikhil Raja Is Fixing the 12 Seconds That Make Job Seekers Quit
The SonicJobs founder went from junior tennis courts to investment banking, then bet a decade on one stubborn idea: applying for work should feel less like paperwork and more like progress.
Tracy Saunders Knows the Job Market’s Unwritten Rules. Now She Teaches Women to Rewrite Them
After two decades recruiting leaders for Google, Amazon, Cisco, and fast-growing technology companies, Tracy Saunders changed sides of the hiring table. BossmakeHer is her answer to a quiet career problem: accomplished women making consequential moves without the inside information employers already possess.
SonicJobs Wants to Kill the Redirect - the 12 Seconds Where Job Hunts Go to Die
Ninety-five percent of job seekers quit before they finish applying. SonicJobs built an AI agent to do the quitting-worthy part for them - and turned the recruitment industry's worst funnel into its pitch.
Lucas Martinez Is Ready for the Next Search
After 15 years building Talent.com from a Montreal startup into a global job-search platform, the founder who learned by moving fast has stepped away from the CEO seat - and toward San Francisco, AI and whatever comes next.
Indeed Is Rebuilding the Job Hunt Around the Match, Not the Search
The internet's biggest jobs index is turning itself into a two-sided matching machine. Its advantage is not a clever chatbot - it is two decades of signals about what people click, apply for and ultimately get hired to do.
The internet's great résumé drawer has become a $19.8 billion market for work itself - part identity system, part hiring engine, part trade publication, and increasingly part AI assistant.
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.
Welcome to the Jungle
Welcome to the Jungle is a Paris-founded employer-branding and job-search platform that turns static job listings into immersive, media-rich company profiles - videos, photography and editorial content that show what it is really like to work somewhere. Launched in 2015 by Jérémy Clédat and Bertrand Uzeel, it pairs a consumer job-search destination drawing 3.5 million monthly visitors with a B2B SaaS suite used by 5,500+ companies to build their employer brand and manage candidates. After acquiring UK job-search app Otta in 2024, it operates across France, Europe and the United States.
Jérémy Clédat
Jérémy Clédat is the co-founder and co-CEO of Welcome to the Jungle, the Paris-born work experience company that has grown into a job-search and employer-branding platform used by thousands of companies worldwide. A former venture capitalist who spent six years backing media, HR and education businesses, he left finance to build a media-driven alternative to soul-crushing job boards. Under his leadership the company adopted a permanent four-day work week, raised roughly €79 million across three rounds, and pushed into the United States from a New York base. He argues the recruiting industry lacks authenticity and transparency, and has built Welcome to the Jungle around showing candidates what work is really like.
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.
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.
Handshake
Handshake is a San Francisco company that began as the career network for Gen Z, connecting tens of millions of students and recent grads with employers and university career centers. Built by three Michigan Tech computer science students to give kids from non-elite schools a fair shot at good jobs, it grew into the dominant early-career recruiting platform. In January 2025 it launched Handshake AI, turning its network of students, PhDs and domain experts into a human data-labeling marketplace that supplies high-quality training data to frontier AI labs - a pivot that has grown into a roughly $1B annualized gross revenue business.
David Fano
David Fano is the founder and CEO of Teal, an AI-powered career platform that helps people manage their job search, build resumes, and grow their careers. An architect by training, he co-founded the technology consultancy CASE Design, sold it into WeWork, and spent years as a senior executive there before leaving to build tools that put job seekers, not employers, in control. He runs Teal from Miami and is a frequent voice in press and podcasts on how AI is reshaping work.
Teal
Teal is a Miami-based AI-powered career platform built for job seekers rather than recruiters. Founded in 2019 by former WeWork executive David Fano, Teal bundles an AI Resume Builder, Job Tracker, job board, Chrome extension, AI Interview Coach, and offer/salary tools into one workspace that helps professionals find, apply for, and land jobs they actually want. The company has grown to roughly 4 million members, has helped facilitate hundreds of thousands of interviews, and has raised about $19 million in venture funding, capped by a $7.5M Series A in January 2025.
Jobcase, Inc.
Jobcase is a Cambridge-based social platform built for the workers most job sites overlook - hourly, frontline and blue-collar Americans. With more than 110 million registered members and roughly 20 million monthly actives, it pairs a community forum and resume tools with machine-learning job matching, earning rankings among the largest U.S. online career destinations. Founded by Fred Goff and Tony Deigh out of the wreckage of an AI hedge fund, Jobcase makes money from employer advertising and recruiting partnerships while keeping the core product free for job seekers.
Simplify
Simplify is a San Francisco AI startup building a single home for the modern job hunt - a browser extension that autofills applications, an AI resume builder, an ATS-style scorer, and a tracker that replaces the spreadsheet. Founded in 2020 by three college students during the pandemic, it now claims more than 1.5 million job seekers and 200 million applications submitted through the platform.
Michael Yan
Michael Yan is the co-founder and CEO of Simplify (YC W21), a San Francisco-based AI-powered job search platform that has helped over 1 million job seekers apply to roughly 100 million job openings. A Morgantown, West Virginia native, Yan dropped out of Stanford to build Simplify after recognizing that students everywhere were lost in the job application chaos. He previously engineered AI/ML systems at Meta, conducted research at MIT CSAIL, and interned at Harvard Medical School. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2023 (Consumer Technology), Yan has built a 181,000+ follower audience on LinkedIn by sharing brutally practical job search advice - including the URL hack that landed him offers at Meta and Microsoft. Simplify has raised $4.35M from Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, and Soma Capital.