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GR8 People Bet the Recruiting Stack Was Broken. Its Answer Was One Big Workflow.
Most recruiting software adds another tab. GR8 People built an ATS, CRM, career-site engine and AI layer around one data model - a bet that the real enemy is the handoff between tools.
Contrario
Contrario is a San Francisco AI recruiting company that pairs specialized human recruiters with AI agents to source, screen, and deliver vetted candidates to startups within days. Founded in 2025 by Stanford dropouts Arya Marwaha and Aditya Sood, it operates as a hybrid between a traditional agency and recruiting software, using AI talent scorecards and graph-based matching while automating scheduling and follow-ups. The company reached roughly $6M in annualized revenue and paid over $1M to recruiters within six months of operating, and raised a $2.3M seed led by Nexus Venture Partners.
Outrove
Outrove is a San Francisco AI company from Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch, founded by Egyptian entrepreneurs Saif Elhager and Ahmed ElShireef. It launched as an AI recruiter that sourced candidates and ran lifelike video and voice interviews, then pivoted to Sapien (asksapien.ai) - a platform that builds simulated populations of real people so companies, investors, and governments can test a pricing, product, campaign, or policy decision against how audiences will actually behave before committing to it.
impress.ai
impress.ai is a Singapore-based enterprise SaaS company that automates the recruitment workflow with AI. Its no-code platform uses conversational bots and structured, competency-based interviews grounded in I/O Psychology to source, screen, assess, engage and onboard candidates at scale. Enterprises such as DBS Bank, Singtel and Accenture use impress.ai to shorten time-to-hire, cut interview rounds and reduce bias while giving candidates a faster, fairer application experience.
Moka
Moka (MokaHR) is an AI-native HR SaaS company founded in 2015 in Beijing that builds recruiting and human-capital-management software for mid-market and enterprise employers. Its platform combines an applicant tracking system, talent CRM, recruitment automation, analytics, and the Moka Eva AI assistant to speed up hiring and HR operations. Moka reached unicorn status after a $100M Series C led by Tiger Global in 2021 and serves 2,000-3,000+ brands, including roughly 30% of the Fortune 500, with a growing presence in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
X0PA AI
X0PA AI is a Singapore-based HR technology company that builds an AI-powered talent acquisition platform to make hiring more objective, faster and less biased. Founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur Nina Alag Suri, the SaaS platform uses machine learning, predictive analytics and natural language processing to source, screen, score and rank candidates for enterprises, governments and universities. It has since expanded into an agentic AI suite of named hiring agents and positions itself around responsible, explainable AI, having become one of the first HR-tech firms to earn Singapore's AI Verify certification.
Emi Labs
Emi Labs builds AI-powered recruiting automation for high-volume, frontline hiring. Its autonomous AI agents attract, screen, schedule, and onboard hourly workers through channels like WhatsApp, SMS, and Messenger, promising faster time-to-hire and a more human candidate experience. Founded in 2018 and backed by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, and Merus Capital, Emi counts large employers such as Walmart, OXXO, Coca-Cola FEMSA, Burger King, and Heineken among its customers and says roughly one in ten frontline hires in Mexico runs through its platform.
Sam Fitzroy
Sam Fitzroy is the co-founder and CEO of Dalia, a Boston-based candidate conversion platform that re-engages job seekers who visit career sites but don't apply. A former Indeed early employee and later VP at The Muse and partnerships lead at Jobcase, he started Dalia in 2019 and raised a $5M Series A in January 2023. His pitch, delivered in interviews with a kind of exhausted evangelism, is that 75% of applicants drop off at the account-creation step, and someone should probably do something about that.
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.
Laborup
Laborup is a Knoxville, Tennessee startup building an AI-powered recruiting platform for America's skilled industrial workforce - the machinists, welders, and maintenance techs that keep factories running. Founded in 2024 by former Stanford AI researcher Tasimba 'Simba' Jonga, it uses voice-first AI agents to interview and profile blue-collar workers in minutes, then matches employers to a vetted network of thousands of tradespeople. The company pitches itself as the 'LinkedIn of manufacturing,' promising faster time-to-fill, lower cost-per-hire, and better retention, and has raised roughly $7.7M in total funding.
QLU.ai
QLU.ai is a San Francisco-based AI platform built for executive search firms. It scans millions of profiles using live market signals to surface qualified leadership candidates in seconds instead of months, then automates outreach across email, LinkedIn, phone, and text. Founded in 2020 by Fahad Jalal, QLU pairs a 10-billion-plus data-point database with natural-language search, automated market maps, and AI voice callers to help recruiters cut research cycles from weeks to minutes.
SupportFinity
SupportFinity is a San Francisco AI-native recruitment platform that replaces the tangle of separate sourcing, ATS, and assessment tools with one system. It searches a database of roughly 2.1-2.4 billion candidate profiles, auto-generates job descriptions, screens and assesses candidates with proprietary AI agents, benchmarks salaries across 180 countries, and offers a recruitment-as-a-service network of 2,000+ recruiters. The company says it cuts time-to-hire and cost by up to 90% and serves 700+ companies worldwide.
Joveo
Joveo is a Menlo Park-based AI-powered recruitment marketing platform that helps employers, staffing agencies, and RPO firms attract and hire talent more efficiently. Founded in 2017 by Kshitij Jain, the platform manages programmatic job ad campaigns across 500+ job boards, social media, and search engines using AI-driven bid management and analytics. Joveo's suite — including Mojo Pro, Mojo Gro, Mojo Engage, and Mojo Go — covers the full hiring funnel from job distribution to candidate engagement, career site CMS, and unified analytics. The company has been on the Inc. 5000 list for four consecutive years and was named among the Top 25 AI Companies of 2025.
Moe Nada
Moe Nada is the CEO and cofounder of SupportFinity, a San Francisco AI-native recruitment automation platform that sources across more than 2.1 billion profiles and runs the full hiring lifecycle through proprietary AI agents. A UC Berkeley MBA with roughly two decades across HP, HPE, IBM and OpenText, he moved from software engineering into product, implementation and customer success before betting that the resume-screening grind belongs to machines and judgment belongs to people.
Simba Jonga
Simba Jonga is the founder and CEO of Laborup, an AI-powered hiring platform often described as the LinkedIn of manufacturing. A University of Tennessee chemical engineer turned Stanford AI researcher, he built Laborup after watching skilled machinists, welders and technicians struggle to get hired despite working inside high-tech factories. The platform uses an autonomous AI voice agent to interview and vet workers, building profiles in minutes and matching them to high-paying industrial jobs. Laborup has raised $7.7M from investors including NVP, Torch Capital and angels Jeff Dean, Jeff Jordan and Evan Moore, grown a 25,000-strong East Tennessee worker network, and is expanding across the South and Midwest.
Will Kramer
Will Kramer is the CEO and co-founder of Laila Technologies, a Buffalo, New York startup building HireGPT, an AI recruitment platform that pairs a marketplace of expert tech recruiters with AI agents to screen, evaluate, and match candidates. A Cornell graduate with more than two decades of software development experience, including leadership roles at startups and Fortune 500 firms such as Paychex, he says HireGPT processes over 50,000 technical applications a month and has helped companies cut hiring costs and timelines by more than half. He also mentors founders at the University at Buffalo and runs plain-English AI workshops for small business owners.
ModernLoop
ModernLoop is a San Mateo, California recruiting operations platform that automates interview scheduling and candidate communication for talent teams. Founded in 2020 by former Slack and Facebook product leaders Lydia Han and Christopher Triolo, it syncs with calendars, Slack, Zoom/Google Meet, and every major ATS to coordinate interviews, balance interviewer load, and run branded candidate portals. In 2025 the company expanded into AI with Taylor AI, an always-on AI recruiter that automates phone screens, FAQs, and zero-click scheduling for high-volume hiring.
Hariharan Kolam
Hariharan Kolam (Hari Kolam) is the co-founder and CEO of Findem, an AI-powered talent data platform headquartered in Redwood City, California. A serial entrepreneur with 20+ years building technology companies, he previously co-founded Instart Logic as CTO, accumulating over 50 technology patents. At Findem, Kolam is reimagining recruitment by replacing resume-based hiring with 3D candidate profiles that synthesize data from over 100,000 sources and 1.6 trillion data points - turning talent acquisition from a guessing game into a data science problem. Under his leadership, Findem raised a $51M Series C in October 2025, bringing total funding to $124M.