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Glider AI Bet the Résumé Was Broken. Then AI Made It Worse.
The hiring platform began by testing what candidates could actually do. Six years, a $10 million Series A and a Findem acquisition later, it is selling something more urgent: proof that the candidate on screen is real.
Reval Turned a Reference-Check Bot Into an AI Recruiting Firm - Then Sold the Whole Playbook
Reval started with the chore nobody wanted - reference calls - and ended up automating the top of the hiring funnel. Its three-year path from narrow tool to recruiting operator explains why Metaview bought the company, and what builders can copy without pretending hiring is a vending machine.
Phenom Turned a Recruiting App Into the AI Layer for How Big Companies Hire
The Philadelphia-area company escaped the point-solution trap by expanding from a mobile recruiting app into a talent operating layer used by more than 700 organizations. The bet is compelling at enterprise scale - and much harder to justify without the data, integration budget and change management to feed it.
Journeyfront Found a $2.5 Million Leak Hiding Inside the Job Interview
Most hiring software records decisions and stops there. Journeyfront follows employees onto the job, then uses retention and performance data to make the next hiring class less of a guess.
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.
Fetcher
Fetcher is a New York-based AI recruiting platform that automates the top of the hiring funnel - finding, verifying, and reaching out to qualified candidates so talent acquisition teams can spend their time interviewing instead of searching. It pairs machine learning against a database of roughly 500 million professional profiles with human sourcers who quality-check every batch, then delivers vetted candidates and automated, personalized outreach directly into recruiters' inboxes and applicant tracking systems.
Visage
Visage is a candidate sourcing platform that pairs a global crowdsourcing community of thousands of expert sourcers with AI to deliver pre-screened, qualified passive candidates directly into an employer's applicant tracking system. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves large enterprise recruiting teams at companies like IBM, Siemens and Nielsen, aiming to cut the time and cost of filling hard-to-fill and high-volume roles.
Fountain
Fountain is a San Francisco-based software company that builds an AI-native hiring and workforce-management platform for the frontline - the hourly, deskless, high-turnover workers who staff restaurants, warehouses, retail floors, delivery fleets, hospitals and factories. Founded in 2014, its platform sources, screens, hires, onboards and schedules workers at high volume, and it has moved aggressively toward autonomous 'agentic' AI with products like Frontline OS and its orchestrator agent Cue. Fountain says it helps more than 500 employers hire well over a million frontline workers a year, and counts brands such as Chipotle, Stitch Fix, GoPuff and Just Eat Takeaway among its customers.
Hirey AI
Hirey is an AI-first recruiting platform built around a chat-based hiring app and an AI agent named Rey that sources candidates, screens them, checks availability, and books interviews automatically. Founded in 2021 by Walter Wu and headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, Hirey focuses on high-volume, fast-turnover hiring in sales, caregiving, and healthcare staffing, where speed matters more than paperwork. The company says it has helped 500,000+ job seekers and is trusted by 10,000+ hiring companies, and it has raised roughly $14M through a Series A led in part by DST Global.
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.
Sense
Sense is an AI-powered talent engagement platform that helps enterprises and staffing firms find, screen, schedule, and re-engage candidates through chatbots, SMS, voice AI, and a unified talent CRM. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves 1,000+ companies including Dell, Sony, Coca-Cola and HCA Healthcare.