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Jobvite and the art of getting out of the way
Hiring has a peculiar talent for turning a promising conversation into an administrative obstacle course. Jobvite has spent two decades selling companies a way to remove the obstacles.
The Advertising Agency That Hid Its Founders in Plain Sight
Three men named Mealey and Hawkins built an agency from their middle names. Fifty-four years later, the disappearing act still explains how AB&C gets attention - by making the client the most interesting person in the room.
The $65,000 Year That Built QtheAgency
Three friends left demanding agency jobs without taking a single client. The first-year forecast promptly collapsed. Thirty years later, their most useful product may be the operating system they built in response.
The Bid Before the Bid
ECU Communications built a national agency around an unglamorous advantage: seeing a government campaign long before the brief arrives. The creative work comes later. First comes the patient art of knowing where the money, rules and partners are moving.
The Small Agency Built for Four Hundred Front Doors
Sandlot & Co. began in a beige basement. Now its small Kansas City team manages the unruly problem of making one brand feel local across more than 400 locations.
The Message Inside the House
Most agencies help a company talk to the market. Full Tilt starts with the harder question: does the company sound believable to the people already inside it?
Never Enough asks who’s keeping your brand’s promises
A marketing consultancy with a recruiter’s instincts, Never Enough connects the stories companies tell with the experience of working for them. Its founder’s projects move from mobile ads to employee podcasts - with a lot of listening in between.
The Yellow Pages Company That Refused to Die - and Now Wants to Run Your Hiring Funnel
Radancy began in phone-book ads, helped create Monster.com, and survived the collapse of print by rebuilding itself around enterprise recruitment software. Its latest bet is that AI agents can stitch the whole hiring journey together - without asking companies to replace the systems they already use.
Symphony Talent Is Rebuilding Job Search Before AI Rewrites the Résumé Pile
The enterprise recruiting company spent a decade stitching software, media and employer branding into one system. Now it is betting that the next job-search box will answer questions instead of matching keywords.
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.
Jibe (Acquired by iCIMS)
Jibe was a New York City-based SaaS recruiting technology company founded in 2010 by Joe Essenfeld. It helped large enterprises modernize hiring with Google-optimized career sites, mobile-friendly job applications, recruiting CRM, and machine-learning-driven candidate matching. Used by Fortune 1000 employers such as Johnson & Johnson, Siemens and Comcast, Jibe raised roughly $36.9M across several rounds before being acquired by applicant-tracking leader iCIMS in June 2019, where its technology became the foundation of iCIMS' recruitment marketing product, Attract.
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.