30 Best Recruiting Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Recruiting Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 30 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.8b. The average funding per company in this subset is $92.9m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Deel (company) logo

Deel (company)

Deel is a technology company offering a human resources management system solution for businesses working with global remote contractors.

10

Funding Rounds

$1.1b

Money raised

Workrise logo

Workrise

Workrise is a workforce management solution for skilled trades.

6

Funding Rounds

$693.8m

Money raised

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Jazzhr

JazzHR is easy, powerful, and affordable recruiting software purpose-build for SMBs. SaaS ATS for masses.

8

Funding Rounds

$24.6m

Money raised

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Hackajob

Hackajob is a technical hiring platform founded in 2014 by Razvan Creanga.

6

Funding Rounds

$32.9m

Money raised

Turing logo

Turing

Turing is a Palo Alto, California-based technology company that provides a hiring platform utilizing AI to match companies with engineers and software developers.

9

Funding Rounds

$157.2m

Money raised

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Florence (company)

Marketplace connecting vacant care home shifts with local nurses and carers seeking extra work.

4

Funding Rounds

$118.4m

Money raised

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Wepow

Wepow is a company founded in 2014 by Rodrigo Martinez, Imo Udom and Jaime Romero.

1

Funding Rounds

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Fetcher (company)

Fetcher is a New York-based company founded in 2012 by Andres Blank, Chris Calmeyn, Genevieve Wolff Lydstone, Genevieve Jurvetson, Javier Castiarena, Natan Santolo and Santi Aimetta.

5

Funding Rounds

$25.4m

Money raised

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ICIMS

Icims is the leading provider of ats applicant tracking systems and hr recruiting software.

1

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

Outdefine logo

Outdefine

Outdefine is a web3 hiring network built for engineers

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

Applied logo

Applied

Applied is a company founded in 2015 by Richard Marr, Kate Glazebrook and Theo Fellgett.

4

Funding Rounds

$17.5m

Money raised

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PowerUs

Platform for technical blue-collar workers to advance their careers and find better job opportunities.

3

Funding Rounds

$22.1m

Money raised

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Talentry

Talentry offers an enterprise-ready SaaS recruiting solution based on employee referrals.

2

Funding Rounds

$9.1m

Money raised

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Werk

We connect you with hard-working workers from countries like Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, while taking care of the whole recruitment and relocation process. No more hiring through shady middlemen and risking fines and delays.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

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Advantage Club

Advantage Club is a company founded in 2014 by Sourabh Deorah.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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Nayms

Nayms is the world's first fully-regulated marketplace for on-chain insurance.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

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Bite Ninja

Bite Ninja is a Memphis-based software company offering software and AI for remote teams and remote training for the hospitality industry, including virtual staffing and technology solutions.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

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Sinecure.ai

Developer of an enterprise SaaS platform designed to reinvent industry-specific talent acquisition and HR technology through the use of AI. The company's platform offers job opportunities for people and makes the hiring process for companies simple, thereby helping companies to hire the talent which is a right fit for them.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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BetterPlace

Developer of a workforce management platform intended to offer digital support for blue-collar workforce management throughout the entire value chain. The company's platform allows users to build a trusting relationship between the blue and grey-collar workforce and their employers.

1

Funding Rounds

$24.0m

Money raised

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Velocity Global

Velocity Global is a Denver-based company founded in 2014 by Ben Wright.

1

Funding Rounds

$400.0m

Money raised

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HUNTY

HUNTY is a Bogotá-based company founded in 2020 by Francisco Camacho, Santiago Lafaurie, Sebastian Caro and Valentina Smith.

4

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

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JobGet

JobGet is a Boston-based company founded in 2019 by Tony Liu.

2

Funding Rounds

$42.1m

Money raised

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Hourwork

HourWork makes recruiting hourly employees easy and fast. We double your applicant flow by maximizing your talent pool. Get started today!

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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Gyfted

Gyfted is a discover hidden talent.

1

Funding Rounds

$630.0k

Money raised

EarlyDay logo

EarlyDay

EarlyDay is a job site specifically for early childhood educators founded by James Watling.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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Genomawork

Genomawork is a Santiago-based company founded in 2018 by Daniel La Roche Contreras, Fabian Martinez, Juan Pablo Garcia and Robert Cercós.

2

Funding Rounds

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nCore

nCore is a platform for video-based applicant tracking and interviews.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

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Malqart

Malqart is a sales Intelligence + Global Investors founded in 2020 by Karim Mokhtar.

4

Funding Rounds

$327.0k

Money raised

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WorkWhile

WorkWhile is a San Francisco-based company founded by Jarah Euston.

2

Funding Rounds

$16.5m

Money raised

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HeadFirst Group

HeadFirst Group is an Hoofddorp-based company.

1

Funding Rounds