Celeste Gudas started 24 Seven in 2000 to staff fashion and beauty brands. Twenty-five years and eight acquisitions later, it is the No. 2 marketing and creative staffing firm in America - and it is quietly betting that the future of hiring is a matching algorithm plus a human who has read 3,000 salary surveys.
BayOne built a sizable business by selling two things enterprises usually buy separately: the technology work and the people who make it run. Now its bet on AI, managed delivery and diverse talent is turning a staffing heritage into a broader transformation play.
Ursus, Inc. is a technical and creative staffing firm founded in 2015 by Jon Beck. It connects enterprises, mid-market companies and high-growth startups with vetted talent across IT, cloud, data, security, DevOps, creative, life sciences and government services. Recognized for four consecutive years by Staffing Industry Analysts as one of the fastest-growing US staffing firms and a repeat Inc. 5000 honoree, Ursus pairs a relationship-first, quality-first operating model with a distributed team spanning the US, UK and India.