24 SaaS Startups in the Recruiting Industry

January 24, 2023

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SaaS startups have become the darling of Venture Capital investors, especially in the Recruiting industry. Over the past decade, software has proverbially “eaten the world” and SaaS companies have scaled to become unicorn corporations in staggering amounts of time.

In this article, we are examining 24 VC funded SaaS startups in the Recruiting industry.

Beetween

A SaaS applicant tracking system (ATS) that automates the whole request-to-hire process is called Beetween. • Request for Source, with stakeholders' consent • Job posting and multiposting with one click on certain media, including corporate websites, social media, and job boards. • Shortlist Candidates, automatically producing candidate profiles and custom questionnaires while expanding your applicant pool. • Applicants Responses, maintained in one location regardless of the application source. • Interviews; setting up and running meetings; receiving feedback; and approving • Employ applicant, revise employment agreement

Company details:
Founders:
Christophe Dacre-Wright
Founded:
2007
Based in:
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Website:
Beetween
Industries:
Human Resources, Recruiting, SaaS
Latest funding:
$2,364,600
Series A
6 July 2021
Total funding:
$2,364,600
Investors
Elevation Capital Partners

Candidate.ID

Candidate.ID has established itself as a key talent acquisition system for organizations looking to hire in-demand talent after launching the world's first marketing automation platform created particularly for recruiting. The only solution in the recruitment industry that can instantly show your recruiters which prospects are the most similar to your job description and are cold, warm, and "hire-ready" is our award-winning software.

Company details:
Founders:
Adam Gordon, Scot McRae
Founded:
2015
Based in:
Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Website:
Candidate.ID
Industries:
Enterprise Software, Marketing Automation, Recruiting, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$968,389
Seed
1 April 2021
Total funding:
$3,040,251
Investors
Crowdcube, Blackfinch Ventures, Adam Godson

CodeSignal

In order to #GoBeyondResumes and hire technical talent of the highest caliber and diversity, CodeSignal is the world's top technical interview solution. The skills evaluation frameworks from CodeSignal are used by talent acquisition teams and engineering executives to find candidates from underrepresented pools, speed up the hiring process, and enhance candidate pipeline yield. The sophisticated job simulation technology offered by CodeSignal's Pre-Screen, Tech Screen, and Interview enables recruiting teams to conduct objective and foresighted assessments, conserve precious engineering resources, improve applicant experiences, and quickly employ the best personnel. The greatest corporations, such as Capital One, Robinhood, Instacart, Uber, Netflix, Zoom, Facebook, Pinterest, Block, and Capital One, rely on CodeSignal, a startup founded in 2015.

Company details:
Founders:
Aram Shatakhtsyan, Felix Desroches, Sophia Baik, Tigran Sloyan
Founded:
2015
Based in:
San Francisco, California, United States
Website:
CodeSignal
Industries:
Employment, Human Resources, Recruiting, SaaS, Skill Assessment, Software
Latest funding:
$50,000,000
Series C
16 September 2021
Total funding:
$87,500,000
Investors
Alumni Ventures, Menlo Ventures, FJ Labs, Headline, Correlation Ventures

Eightfold AI

Eightfold is a creator of a talent intelligence platform that aids businesses in hiring, retaining, and finding talent. Its platform closes the talent gap by leveraging artificial intelligence, which enables customers to match individuals to suitable opportunities and turns talent management into a competitive advantage. With its corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, Eightfold was established in 2016.

Company details:
Founders:
Ashutosh Garg, Varun Kacholia
Founded:
2016
Based in:
Santa Clara, California, United States
Website:
Eightfold AI
Industries:
Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Information Technology, Recruiting, SaaS
Latest funding:
$220,000,000
Series E
10 June 2021
Total funding:
$396,750,000
Investors
General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, IVP, SoftBank Vision Fund, Foundation Capital

Eloops

Eloops allows managers to interact without having to put in extra effort. To engage employees and systematically align them with the company's culture, values, and objectives, they make use of pre-made content templates, virtual activities, and gamification technologies. Eloops, situated in Tel Aviv, Israel, was established in 2017.

Company details:
Founders:
Idan Shem Tov, Naor David Melamed, Sharon Dayag, Tal Groder
Founded:
2017
Based in:
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Website:
Eloops
Industries:
B2B, Employment, Recruiting, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$2,000,000
Seed
23 August 2021
Total funding:
$2,000,000
Investors
Legziel Family, HIGH BIZ

Findem

Findem uses AI to speed up the hiring process from search to hire. We assist businesses in finding the best prospects from among more than 750 million enhanced profiles, engaging them without boundaries, and closing them. Findem is being used by talent executives at Fortune 100 businesses and startups to significantly expand their talent pools, improve the quality and diversity of their applicant pools, and cut the time it takes to hire new employees by 80%. With Findem, you can search like never before and employ incredible people. Find out more at findem.ai

Company details:
Founders:
Hariharan Kolam, Raghu Venkat
Founded:
2019
Based in:
Redwood City, California, United States
Website:
Findem
Industries:
Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Human Resources, Recruiting, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$30,000,000
Series B
9 December 2021
Total funding:
$37,300,000
Investors
Wing Venture Capital, Corner Ventures, Quarry, Four Rivers Group

Humanly.io

Conversational AI from Humanly interacts with each and every applicant. You may free up time by automating the time-consuming applicant screening and selection activities. Additionally, by making the interview more transparent, you may use concrete data to make recruiting judgments that are more certain and equal. The business was established in 2019 and has dual headquarters in Sacramento, California, and Seattle, Washington.

Company details:
Founders:
Andrew Gardner, Prem Kumar
Founded:
2020
Based in:
Seattle, Washington, United States
Website:
Humanly.io
Industries:
Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, Machine Learning, Recruiting, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$4,000,000
Seed
15 September 2021
Total funding:
$5,100,000
Investors
Alumni Ventures, Y Combinator, Branded Strategic Hospitality, Moneta Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures

Instawork

A job marketplace for those in the hospitality industry is run by Instawork. By transforming the procedure into an automated matching solution, it is altering the way conventional recruitment functions for small organizations. Its mission is to provide economic opportunities for professionals and small enterprises across the world. The business was established in 2015, and its main office is in San Francisco, California.

Company details:
Founders:
Saureen Shah, Sumir Meghani
Founded:
2015
Based in:
San Francisco, California, United States
Website:
Instawork
Industries:
Human Resources, Information Technology, Marketplace, Recruiting, SaaS
Latest funding:
$60,000,000
Series C
8 July 2021
Total funding:
$88,000,000
Investors
Y Combinator, GV, Craft Ventures, Soma Capital, Amino Capital

Kollabo

Kollabo is a deep job platform for blue-collar professionals. We succeed at matching job searchers with staffing agencies perfectly because of our extensive network of temporary offices and skilled people. The hiring process has never been so simple and hassle-free for everyone involved. All stakeholders are to be made digitally capable in order to create a win-win scenario. With Kollabo - we simplify work - it really can be that easy.

Company details:
Founders:
Andri Studer, Cédric Baumgartner, Manuel Inauen
Founded:
2018
Based in:
Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Website:
Kollabo
Industries:
Human Resources, Marketing, Recruiting, SaaS, Service Industry, Staffing Agency
Latest funding:
$2,579,014
Seed
21 September 2021
Total funding:
$3,304,452
Investors
Wingman Ventures, PropTech1 Ventures, Virtual Network, Roland Brack, Christian Wenger

Laskie

Laskie is a talent-focused job-matching website where applicants may apply for tech employment. Employers may connect with applicants using Candidate Drop, Laskie Platform, and ReverseApply on the free B2C SaaS platform Laskie. A B2B SaaS application called Laskie gives recruiting managers the ability to explore a vast database of screened prospects, create saved searches with automatic matching, and issue personalized invites to engage with candidates. Additionally, businesses may access a weekly email through Laskie's Candidate Drop, which is completely free to use. Employers may obtain a higher degree of assistance for their employment requirements with a dedicated sourcing team for inbound and outbound sourcing, Slack channel help, and Laskie Advisory Services for more focused sourcing efforts.

Company details:
Founders:
Chris Bakke, Daniel O'Shea
Founded:
2020
Based in:
San Francisco, California, United States
Website:
Laskie
Industries:
Information Technology, Marketing, Product Design, Product Management, Professional Networking, Recruiting, SaaS, Sales, Software, Software Engineering
Latest funding:
$6,000,000
Seed
16 December 2021
Total funding:
$6,000,000
Investors
AngelList Talent, Rebel Fund, Bloomberg Beta, Adapt Ventures, TRAC

Omnipresent

Omnipresent is a human resources and onboarding SaaS platform developed to assist businesses in hiring local teams that work from anywhere in the world. It helps companies successfully acquire and manage full-time employees globally by managing local employment compliance, payroll, human resource assistance, and benefits for foreign teams. The business, which is entirely remote, was established in 2019 and is officially registered in London, England.

Company details:
Founders:
Guenther Eisinger, Matthew Wilson
Founded:
2019
Based in:
London, England, United Kingdom
Website:
Omnipresent
Industries:
Employment, Human Resources, Management Information Systems, Recruiting, SaaS
Latest funding:
$120,000,000
Series B
22 March 2022
Total funding:
$137,800,000
Investors
Tencent, Entrepreneur First, Kinnevik, Charlie Songhurst, TrueSight Ventures

Ontop

International employees can save money in USD thanks to Ontop, which enables employers to hire them. Visit https://www.getontop.com to schedule a demo.

Company details:
Founders:
Jaime Abella, Julian Torres, Santiago Aparicio
Founded:
2020
Based in:
Miami, Florida, United States
Website:
Ontop
Industries:
FinTech, Human Resources, Management Information Systems, Recruiting, SaaS
Latest funding:
$20,000,000
Series A
4 October 2021
Total funding:
$26,000,000
Investors
Y Combinator, Tiger Global Management, Point72 Ventures, Soma Capital, MAGIC Fund

Papaya Global

Papaya Global provides a cloud-based HR and payroll platform for global workforce management. The automated, cloud-based SaaS platform unifies all workforce management tasks under one platform – providing an end-to-end solution, from onboarding to on-going management and cross-border payments. It also integrates with all existing HRIS management tools, provides real-time business intelligence, and eliminates errors. It gathers all employee information into one place, creating a highly visible system for tracking payroll spending. The platform ensures GDPR and SOC compliance to maintain the highest standard of security. The company was co-founded by Eynat Guez, Ruben Drong, and Ofer Herman in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Company details:
Founders:
Eynat Guez, Ofer Herman, Ruben Drong
Founded:
2016
Based in:
New York, New York, United States
Industries:
Data Integration, Employment, Human Resources, Recruiting, SaaS
Latest funding:
$250,000,000
Series D
11 September 2021
Total funding:
$444,500,000
Investors
Google for Startups, Tiger Global Management, Insight Partners, Access Ventures, IVP

Personio

Personio offers cloud-based HR management and recruiting solutions and software for startups, and small- and medium-sized enterprises. The company enables its customers to store and manage all employee data and HR processes in one place, including vacation and sick days, approvals, salary, attendance, employee documents, performance, reporting, and employee on-boarding. Its recruiting function comprises applicant tracking, interview scheduling, candidate reviews, and many other features.

Company details:
Founders:
Arseniy Vershinin, Hanno Renner, Ignaz Forstmeier, Roman Schumacher
Founded:
2015
Based in:
München, Bayern, Germany
Website:
Personio
Industries:
Employment, Human Resources, Recruiting, SaaS
Latest funding:
$200,000,000
Series E
22 June 2022
Total funding:
$724,332,945
Investors
Accel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Picus Capital, Global Founders Capital, Index Ventures

Phenom

Phenom is a global HR technology company with the purpose to help people find the right job and discover their true potential. They are a software company that transforms engage, attract, convert, and retains top talent through talent experience management. Their platform automates the complex process of driving awareness, interest, engagement, and acquisition for qualified talent. It also transforms the talent journey from interested candidates to thriving employees to enthusiastic brand advocates, while helping HR evolve from a cost center to a revenue generator. Phenom People delivers the Phenom Talent Experience Management (TXM) platform to transform the talent journey from interested candidates to thriving employees to enthusiastic brand advocates while helping HR break the stereotype of being a cost center instead of a revenue generator. The company platform is built on artificial intelligence (AI), which drives personalization, automation, and accuracy for candidates, recruiters, employees, and management. Phenom People has received the Stevie Award for Employer of the Year 2018 and The Recruiting Service Innovation Award (ReSI) for Innovator of the Year (Employment Site Partner Category). The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Ambler, Pennsylvania.

Company details:
Founders:
Brad Goldoor, Hari Bayireddy, Mahe Bayireddi
Founded:
2010
Based in:
Ambler, Pennsylvania, United States
Website:
Phenom
Industries:
Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, Recruiting, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$100,000,000
Series D
7 April 2021
Total funding:
$161,419,000
Investors
Sierra Ventures, Westbridge Capital, AllianceBernstein, Dragoneer Investment Group, Karlani Capital

Plum.io

Revolutionary talent assessment platform Plum is talent realized. Universally designed, Plum uses objective data to measure and match human potential to job needs, enhancing talent decisions across the employee lifecycle. With unmatched scalability, Plum empowers organizations to quantify job fit, improve quality of hire, identify potential, provide personalized career insights and create high-performing teams from one platform. Plum has been named a Top HR Product of the Year by Human Resource Executive, won an HR Tech Award from Lighthouse Research & Advisory and secured High Performer status with G2. Visit www.plum.io to learn more.

Company details:
Founders:
Caitlin MacGregor, Christine Bird, Neil MacGregor
Founded:
2012
Based in:
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Website:
Plum.io
Industries:
Career Planning, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Recruiting, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$2,500,000
Seed
21 September 2021
Total funding:
$8,550,000
Investors
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), BDC Venture Capital, SAP.iO, Thomvest Ventures, Real Ventures

Prelude

A tool called Interview Schedule is available for streamlining hiring procedures. It streamlines the most laborious components of interview scheduling, freeing up resources to concentrate on top priorities. By connecting with their current systems and procedures, the platform gives recruitment coordinators a boost and puts a stop to the dreadful game of Calendar Tetris. The business was established in 2017 and has its main office in San Francisco, California.

Company details:
Founders:
Alexander Soto, Will Laufer
Founded:
2017
Based in:
San Francisco, California, United States
Website:
Prelude
Industries:
Information Technology, Recruiting, SaaS, Scheduling, Software
Latest funding:
$1,200,000
Seed
28 June 2021
Total funding:
$2,400,000
Investors
Elad Gil, Sam Altman, Fuel Capital, Jack Altman, Jacob Gibson

Searchlight

The Predictive Talent Platform from Searchlight offers analytics and evaluations to help businesses hire more effectively and efficiently. By linking applicant reference and self-assessment data to post-hire results, Searchlight's sophisticated People Science Engine monitors and improves Quality of Hire. In order to uncover predictive signals like competencies and soft skills, Searchlight's linked talent intelligence technology draws employee outcome data, including enablement, performance, and belonging, back into the hiring process. Organizations are able to continually learn as they choose and keep the best candidates thanks to these real-time information. By better understanding talent, Searchlight aims to make recruiting a win-win situation for all parties involved.

Company details:
Founders:
Anna X. Wang, Kerry Wang
Founded:
2018
Based in:
San Francisco, California, United States
Website:
Searchlight
Industries:
Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Recruiting, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$17,000,000
Series A
20 December 2021
Total funding:
$19,500,000
Investors
Y Combinator, Accel, Kapor Capital, Founders Fund, Shasta Ventures

Sense

A smart communication and personnel engagement tool designed for the staffing sector is called Sense. It provides a 360-degree picture of the consultants' health in real time and boosts re-deployment rates. The firm was established in 2016 and has its main office in San Francisco, California.

Company details:
Founders:
Alex Rosen, Anil Dharni, Pankaj Jindal, Ram Gudavalli
Founded:
2016
Based in:
San Francisco, California, United States
Website:
Sense
Industries:
Human Resources, Internet, Recruiting, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$50,000,000
Series D
5 December 2021
Total funding:
$89,500,000
Investors
Accel, GV, SoftBank Vision Fund, Khosla Ventures, Chiratae Ventures

Sirenum

Sirenum is a cloud-based platform enabling agencies, recruiters, and organizations that depend on employees for operational needs to manage the staff lifecycle. The technical foundation on which Sirenum is based is extremely adaptable, enabling us to collaborate with other service providers for features that the system doesn't presently support. If a customer requests certain features up front, we may use this method to supply them even if they would not otherwise have them. When a certain feature is in high demand, they may opt to create it internally rather than using an outside provider, retaining all revenues. Employers who manage complicated shift-based workforces should use Sirenum. The staffing, rail, aviation, building, hospitality, healthcare, home care, deliveries, logistics, and transportation industries are all good fits for Sirenum. Operators in these industries frequently employ hundreds of people or perhaps thousands.

Company details:
Founders:
Amnon Kruvi, Ben Hizak, Benjamin Rubin, Joshua Pines
Founded:
2013
Based in:
London, England, United Kingdom
Website:
Sirenum
Industries:
Health Care, Human Resources, iOS, Logistics, Mobile, Recruiting, SaaS, Scheduling, Software, Transportation
Latest funding:
$2,700,000
Series A
29 January 2021
Total funding:
$4,109,344
Investors
Dynamo, William Christopher Currie, William Currie Group, Sir Terry Leahy, Mark Horrocks

SmartRecruiters

A complete recruitment platform, SmartRecruiters helps employers locate, connect with, and hire talent. It is based on a cutting-edge cloud platform with an open marketplace for third-party recruitment services, and it has complete capabilities for recruitment marketing and collaborative hiring. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, and it was established in 2010.

Company details:
Founders:
Jerome Ternynck
Founded:
2010
Based in:
San Francisco, California, United States
Industries:
Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Recruiting, SaaS, Social Recruiting
Latest funding:
$110,000,000
Series E
20 July 2021
Total funding:
$225,009,956
Investors
Insight Partners, Mayfield Fund, Salesforce Ventures, ABACON CAPITAL, Acadian Ventures

Snaphunt

Employers can access targeted talent with Snaphunt based on their unique requirements across nations, regions, and time zones. They can also use cutting-edge tools & solutions to manage their recruiting process and screen candidates. Along with matching job seekers to international opportunities based on their experience, talents, and interests, Snaphunt also offers tools and services to help them develop in their job search and achieve their professional objectives.

Company details:
Founders:
Tulika Tripathi
Founded:
2017
Based in:
Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Website:
Snaphunt
Industries:
Human Resources, Recruiting, SaaS
Latest funding:
$1,500,000
Seed
11 January 2021
Total funding:
$2,500,000
Investors
BEENEXT

Willo

Building industry-leading virtual interview tools to assist quickly expanding organizations in finding and nurturing brilliant individuals. A highly scalable, secure infrastructure that complies with GDPR requirements has been engineered and designed to function everywhere.

Company details:
Founders:
Andrew Wood, Euan Cameron
Founded:
2018
Based in:
Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Website:
Willo
Industries:
Recruiting, SaaS, Skill Assessment, Software
Latest funding:
$1,840,404
Seed
12 December 2022
Total funding:
$3,066,662
Investors
Scottish Enterprise, 1818 Venture Capital, Steve Perry, Stefan Ciecierski, Peter Preston

Workiz

Workiz, a SaaS CRM platform founded in 2015, serves small- to medium-sized on-demand field service companies including HVAC, plumbing, and electrician firms. By doing away with outmoded company administration techniques like pen and paper, Excel spreadsheets, and Google Calendar, field service professionals may expand their businesses using Workiz. Workiz offers an all-in-one platform that enables them to run their business more efficiently and flourish over time. Clients claim that after utilizing the Workiz platform, their income has increased by 22%. Workiz, which has its main office in San Diego, California, focuses on the field service markets in North America. It was chosen to be a "Facebook Playground" partner as well as a "Google for Startup Accelerator" partner.

Company details:
Founders:
Erez Marom, Idan Kadosh, Saar Kohanovitch
Founded:
2015
Based in:
San Diego, California, United States
Website:
Workiz
Industries:
CRM, Enterprise Software, Recruiting, SaaS, Small and Medium Businesses
Latest funding:
$40,000,000
Series C
17 November 2021
Total funding:
$60,250,000
Investors
NUMA, G Squared, Aleph, TMT Investments, La Maison Partners

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