Tagged: talent-acquisition
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FloCareer
FloCareer is an AI-powered and expert-led interviewing platform that lets companies outsource their hiring interviews at scale. Through its Interview-as-a-Service model it deploys a network of 8,000+ vetted industry interviewers (FloExperts), while its AI interviewer NIVO conducts automated screening and coding interviews around the clock. The company helps 700+ organizations run structured, proctored, unbiased interviews with fast turnaround, reducing recruiter load and time-to-hire.
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.
CoA Nexus, Inc.
CoA Nexus, Inc. (formerly Srust, Inc.) is a Tokyo- and Menlo Park-based deep-tech HR startup that uses proprietary AI to read tens of millions of research papers and patents, visualize a scientist's real skills, and match R&D talent with companies - from university spinouts to large manufacturers. Its flagship platform, CoA Researcher, is billed as Japan's largest researcher-matching platform, supporting full-time roles and side work across biotech, chemistry, medical science and semiconductors. The company raised a roughly ¥300 million Series A in October 2025 to expand its global researcher database and go beyond the reach of conventional job ads.
Redrob
Redrob is an AI company building large language models and go-to-market tools for sales, recruitment, and prospecting. Its platform combines a 700M+ contact data pool, verified emails, and real-time buying signals to help B2B teams find prospects, automate outreach, and screen talent. Founded by former international lawyer Felix Kim, Redrob positions itself as an affordable, enterprise-grade AI stack for emerging markets and cost-conscious companies, and aims to become one of the world's most-used LLM platforms by 2028.
JobPixel
JobPixel is a San Francisco enterprise video platform that helps talent-acquisition and marketing teams collect, edit, brand, and distribute authentic user-generated video from employees, candidates, and customers. Founded in 2020 by Omar Khateeb and Anthony Duerr, it aims to humanize hiring by moving beyond the resume - letting companies build employer brand and screen candidates with short-form video at enterprise scale.
The CEO who spent $500,000 on a first name
Aaron Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Alex (alex.com), the AI recruiter that runs autonomous phone screens and video interviews at scale. He started the company as Apriora in 2023 with John Rytel, then paid more than half a million dollars for the alex.com domain and renamed both the product and the company after its AI agent. A Brown University graduate in computer science, applied math, and economics, Wang previously worked at Facebook AI Research and as a quantitative analyst at a hedge fund. Alex conducts thousands of interviews a day for Fortune 100 firms, banks, restaurant chains, and Big 4 accounting firms, and has raised roughly $20 million, including a $17 million Series A led by Peak XV Partners.
Benjamin Encz
Benjamin Encz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ashby, a San Francisco-based AI-native recruiting platform used by companies like OpenAI, Shopify, and Snowflake. A German-born software engineer turned recruiting-infrastructure builder, he spent 80% of his time on recruiting operations as Director of Engineering at PlanGrid before co-founding Ashby in 2018. Under his leadership, Ashby has grown to 2,700+ customers, 380 employees, and $142.5M in total funding including a $50M Series D in 2025.
Ashby
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform that bundles applicant tracking, sourcing, scheduling, CRM, and analytics into a single AI-powered system used by companies like OpenAI, Shopify, Notion, Snowflake, and Ramp.
Findem
Findem is an AI-powered talent intelligence platform built on a proprietary Talent Data Cloud that enriches candidate profiles with 3D data (people, company, time). It automates sourcing, CRM, analytics and executive search for enterprise talent teams, with customers including RingCentral, Nutanix, and Intuitive Surgical.
Anil Dharni
Anil Dharni is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sense, a San Francisco-based AI-powered talent engagement platform that serves over 1,000 organizations. Before reshaping how companies hire, he co-founded Funzio, the mobile gaming studio behind 'Crime City' and 'Modern War,' which sold to GREE for $210 million in 2012. At Sense, backed by SoftBank with $106 million raised and a $500M valuation, he is on a mission to humanize the contingent workforce and make candidates feel genuinely valued through AI, automation, and omnichannel communication.
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.
Tigran Sloyan
Tigran Sloyan is the Co-Founder and CEO of CodeSignal, the AI-native skills platform transforming how the world hires and develops talent. Born in Armenia and educated at MIT in Mathematics and Computer Science, he co-founded CodeSignal in 2015 after witnessing first-hand how resume bias blocked talented people from being seen. The company has raised $90M+, counts Google, Meta, Netflix, and Anthropic among its clients, and is on a mission to #GoBeyondResumes - replacing credential gatekeeping with verified skills.
Colleen Gallagher
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.
Vina D'Souza
Vina D'Souza is the Chief Executive Officer and President of WalkWater Technologies, a San Jose-based IT services and cloud solutions firm she leads with over two decades of experience in technology recruiting and enterprise services. Under her leadership, WalkWater has grown into an Oracle Gold Partner with 58 employees, specializing in Oracle Fusion Cloud, ServiceNow, ERP systems, cloud migration, and IT staff augmentation for clients across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and the non-profit sector.
Samson Wu
Samson Wu is a Recruiting Operations Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms. With roots in economics from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and formative stints at AIESEC, Uber, and CloudKitchens, he has become a key architect of how a16z and its portfolio companies find and hire world-class talent. He supports the firm's New Media team as an HR Business Partner and brings operational rigor to recruiting functions that span early-stage startups to growth-stage companies across the a16z portfolio.
Ksenia Onosov
Ksenia Onosov is a veteran talent acquisition leader and the Recruitment Lead at Forum Ventures, one of North America's leading B2B SaaS venture studios. With over 12 years of recruiting experience spanning global tech giants and early-stage startups, she specializes in building teams from the ground up across Engineering, GTM, and Operations. Simultaneously running her own consultancy, Clever Fox, she brings a rare dual perspective as both an embedded operator and independent advisor to the startup hiring ecosystem.
Natalie Ledbetter
Natalie Ledbetter is a 3x startup People Ops executive, TEDx speaker, and former Operating Partner & Head of People at Boldstart Ventures who scaled Stash from 27 to 350 employees in 2.5 years. A self-described 'third culture kid' who grew up attending school in Jakarta, Indonesia alongside students from 90 countries, she now runs Ledbetter Global Advisory, offering embedded fractional people operations leadership to Series A-B companies. She has partnered with 100+ founders across the startup ecosystem, blending strategic executive thinking with hands-on execution to build high-performance, psychologically safe teams.
NishA Acharya
NishA Acharya is a tech talent executive and career strategist with 14+ years of experience placing engineers and consultants at Ernst & Young. As US Talent Acquisition Recruiting Lead for EY Technology Consulting, she has built pipelines for some of the most sought-after tech roles in consulting, with a growing focus on AI, Physical AI, and Robotics. She runs 'The Leverage' newsletter, helping tech professionals navigate career growth, and speaks at Women in Tech events globally on recruiting, STEM, and how to build a career that compounds.