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Ben Reuveni Wants Your Résumé to Stop Defining You
A talent algorithm in an intelligence unit gave Ben Reuveni the question. Getting lost inside IBM gave him the problem. Gloat is his decade-long attempt to make opportunity visible before good people have to leave to find it.
Latin America's Freelancers Needed a Home. Workana Built One, Then Took It to Asia.
Founded in Buenos Aires in 2012, Workana turned a region full of remote talent and no dedicated marketplace into the largest freelance platform in Latin America, with more than two million professionals and a growing outpost in Southeast Asia.
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.
AMN Healthcare
AMN began by placing traveling nurses. Forty years later, it sells health systems something broader: the people, software and operating discipline to keep care moving when labor gets scarce, expensive or suddenly unavailable.
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.
Outsized
Outsized is a curated talent-on-demand platform that connects large enterprises and consulting firms with vetted independent consultants, subject-matter experts, interims and fractional professionals across Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2016 and focused on financial services, it pairs management-consulting rigor with deep industry domain expertise, handling matching, contracting, invoicing and payments so clients can staff transformation, risk, data and digital projects in days rather than months.
Paro
Paro is a Chicago-based, AI-powered marketplace that connects businesses and accounting firms with vetted fractional finance and accounting experts - from bookkeepers and controllers to fractional CFOs. Founded in 2015, it pairs its proprietary matching algorithms across 60+ industries and 250+ skill sets with data tools and advisory insight, aiming to become the go-to resource for finance and accounting solutions as the profession faces a deepening talent shortage.
Reejig
Reejig is an enterprise workforce-intelligence company that has repositioned itself as a Work Operating System for AI-powered work. Founded in Sydney in 2019 and now headquartered in New York, it maps every job, task and workflow inside an organisation into a structured Work Ontology and Work Context Graph, then uses independently audited Ethical AI to help companies redesign work, deploy AI agents, and measure the hours and value unlocked. It works with large enterprises such as Salesforce, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson and Mastercard, and pursues a mission it calls Zero Wasted Potential.
CloudTask
CloudTask is a Miami Beach-based go-to-market marketplace and managed-services provider that helps B2B and SaaS companies hire vetted remote sales, customer success, and support talent - plus agencies and software - in as little as 48 hours. Founded in 2014 by Amir Reiter, the bootstrapped company sources pre-vetted, primarily Latin American SaaS professionals with video profiles and transparent pricing, and has expanded into a broader RevOps ecosystem covering SDR/BDR staffing, lead generation, conversational marketing, and the emerging category of GTM engineers.
Paraform
Paraform is a San Francisco recruiting platform that connects companies with a network of 10,000+ independent recruiters and pairs them with custom AI agents to fill hard roles fast. Instead of betting that software alone can screen resumes, Paraform keeps humans in the loop and gives them AI tools plus white-glove operational support, handling intake calls, hiring-manager feedback, and payments. Companies like Palantir, Rippling, Cursor, and Cognition use it to meet candidates in days rather than months. Founded in 2022 by John Kim and Jeffrey Li, the company has raised $65M total, most recently a $40M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners in March 2026.
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.
Talently
Talently is a Latin American tech-talent marketplace that connects US and global companies with senior, bilingual, AI-vetted software engineers and digital professionals across LATAM. Founded in Peru in 2018, it began as an upskilling platform and pivoted into a hiring and staff-augmentation engine that delivers vetted candidate shortlists in 48-72 hours and gets teams up and running in about 21 days. The company blends automated technical and English screening with human-led evaluations for culture and communication fit, and handles contracts, payroll, compliance, and IP.
Domenica Obando
Domenica Obando is the Peruvian founder and CEO of Talently, a Latin American tech talent marketplace that vets, trains, and places software engineers and data scientists into roles at companies across the US and LATAM. After stints in an NGO, the public sector, and an English-learning startup called Andi, she pivoted into Talently when she noticed her customers were really developers chasing international jobs. Talently has connected thousands of engineers with hundreds of companies including PayPal, Walmart, Nubank, Mercado Libre and Rappi, and raised seed funding backed by 500 Startups and IDB Lab (BID Lab).
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.
MarketerHire
MarketerHire is a San Francisco-based talent marketplace that connects companies with pre-vetted, on-demand marketing experts - from fractional CMOs to paid-media specialists - typically matched within 48 hours via its proprietary MarketerMatch algorithm.
Mercor
Mercor is an AI-powered talent marketplace that recruits domain experts - doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists - to train and evaluate frontier AI models for labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Amazon. Founded in 2023 by three Thiel Fellows, it has grown from a hiring tool into the human data backbone of the AI economy.
Brendan Foody
Brendan Foody is the 22-year-old co-founder and CEO of Mercor, the AI talent and data company that became a $10 billion decacorn in under two years. A Georgetown dropout and former Thiel Fellow from Menlo Park, California, Foody co-founded Mercor with high school debate teammates Adarsh Hiremath and Surya Midha at a São Paulo hackathon in early 2023. Mercor connects AI labs — including OpenAI, Meta, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic — with domain experts (scientists, doctors, lawyers, bankers) who train frontier AI models through human feedback, growing from $1M to $500M in annual run rate within 17 months and making Foody one of the world's youngest self-made billionaires.
Chris Toy
Chris Toy is the CEO and co-founder of MarketerHire, the AI-powered on-demand marketing talent platform that has made over 25,000 successful marketer-company matches for clients including Netflix, Allbirds, and Glossier. With 20+ years spanning direct mail agencies, a soccer webcomic, comic-book marketing, and now leading a company ranked #71 on the 2025 Inc. 5000, Toy built MarketerHire after running his own agency and repeatedly turning down clients because he couldn't staff them fast enough - then deciding to fix the problem himself.
Nicolas Meunier
Nicolas Meunier is the Founder and CEO of talent.io, a Paris-based reverse recruitment platform that flips the traditional hiring model on its head - instead of candidates chasing companies, vetted tech companies apply to pre-screened software engineers. A Stanford-trained computer scientist and Ecole Polytechnique alumnus, Meunier co-founded talent.io in 2015 after previously co-founding CruiseWise (acquired by TripAdvisor) and working as a senior software engineer at Cruise Critic. Under his leadership, talent.io has grown to serve 2,000+ tech companies and 150,000+ developers across 8+ European cities, raising $11M in funding from top investors including Alven Capital and Ventech.