69 Best Recruitment Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Recruitment Startups

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There are 738 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $8.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $123.6m.

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

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10

Funding Rounds

$1.1b

Money raised

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

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Hirect is a chat-based hiring application designed for high-growth start-ups and small- to medium- sized enterprises.

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7

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$120.0m

Money raised

Lever is an Applicant Tracking System which recruiters and hiring managers can use to track their candidates. The company participated in the S12 cohort of Y Combinator.

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4

Funding Rounds

$176.8m

Money raised

AI software platform for recruiting and talent management

4

Funding Rounds

$45.5m

Money raised

HireEZ, formerly Hiretual, is a Mountain View, California-based developer of an artificial intelligence-powered recruitment platform to help companies find employees.

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6

Funding Rounds

$39.7m

Money raised

Also known as the Daily Muse, The Muse is a company developing an online career platform that provides job listings and career advice to people. It participated in the W12 cohort of Y Combinator. It was founded in 2011 and is located in New York City, New York.

7

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$420.0m

Money raised

Handshake is a Caliornia-based college career recruiting network for college students, career centers, and employers.

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Notch is a talent platform that focuses on software developers.

4

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$24.0m

Money raised

Pave is a software company specializing in developing compensation documenting solutions for businesses.

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$8.4m

Money raised

XOR is an artificial intelligence powered recruiting chatbot founded in 2016 by Aida Fazylova.

6

Funding Rounds

$17.4m

Money raised

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1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Brilliant is a San Francisco-based educational technology company.

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1

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$1.6m

Money raised

Mercu is a Singapore-based software-as-a-service company developing an artificially intelligent platform for hiring, training, and engaging remote workforces.

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10

Funding Rounds

$750.5m

Money raised

Personio is a software company in Munich, Germany founded in 2015.

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$1.5b

Money raised

Jobandtalent is a linguistic analysis recruitment platform founded in 2009 by Felipe Navio.

2

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$6.7m

Money raised

An online marketplace to find co-working, private, and shared office spaces

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3

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$169.0m

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A company offering an enterprise workplace visitor management software platform.

5

Funding Rounds

$74.1m

Money raised

Founded in 2017, Comet provides tools that assist in the development of machine learning and deep learning models for other organizations and enterprises.

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1

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$118.0k

Money raised

A software company offering an online job marketplace for connecting job seekers, employers, and employees.

3

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$106.0m

Money raised

Workstream is a company and job platform that enables business owners to recruit and hire workers, focusing on gig jobs and the fast food industry.

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2

Funding Rounds

$22.1m

Money raised

Codility is a company that looks to develop recruitment software

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$7.6m

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Wade & Wendy is a conversational AI based hiring and recruiting company founded in 2015 by Drew Austin.

3

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$52.7m

Money raised

Greenhouse is an applicant tracking system and recruitment tool.

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3

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$24.2m

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A financial services and technology company. It was founded in 2012 and is located in London, United Kingdom.

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3

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$28.5m

Money raised

Talview is a San Jose-based recruitment company.

4

Funding Rounds

$52.5m

Money raised

Jobster is a Seattle-based company.

1

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$1.5m

Money raised

CSPA (Computer Science Proficiency Assessment) is a company providing standardized assessment for software engineers. It is located in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2017.The Computer Science Proficiency Assessment (CSPA™) is a comprehensive standardized exam for software engineers.

2

Funding Rounds

$59.0m

Money raised

A company offering live streaming and on-demand fitness classes for users in their homes that is headquartered in New York City.

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4

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$31.8m

Money raised

Owler is a business information and insights platform providing company data and real-times news and updates.

3

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$23.7m

Money raised

Entelo is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2011 by Jon Bischke.

1

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$50.0m

Money raised

Workable is the world's leading hiring platform, where companies find, evaluate and hire better candidates, faster.

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3

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$90.2m

Money raised

HackerRank is a website and business enterprise founded in 2012 by Vivek Ravisankar.

9

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$395.0m

Money raised

Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform founded in 2014 by Abakar Saidov, Sultan Murad Saidov and Michael Paterson.

4

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$520.0m

Money raised

Checkr is a company developing an API to automate professional background checking.

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4

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$95.0m

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OpenSesame is a Portland-based company focusing on e-learning courses for workforce development.

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4

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$17.2m

Money raised

Filtered is a platform designed to help companies hire engineers based on ability, founded by Oliver Weng and Paul Bilodeau.

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7

Funding Rounds

$280.3m

Money raised

Gtmhub is a cloud-based strategy execution platform that builds OKR software for enterprises and not-for-profits.

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7

Funding Rounds

$51.5m

Money raised

Thismoment is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2008 by Vince Broady, Scott Bedard and Ankarino Lara.

1

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$18.5m

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WayUp is a company connecting students with jobs during and after college. It participated in the W15 cohort of Y Combinator.

4

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$61.0m

Money raised

Mya Systems is a company that has developed Mya, a conversational AI platform.

6

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$225.0m

Money raised

SmartRecruiters is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2010.

2

Funding Rounds

$71.7m

Money raised

A software company that has created a mobile application that is a recruitment platform working with students, universities, and companies. It was founded in 2008 and is located in Paris, France.

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$3.7m

Money raised

A company offering a digital credential platform.

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$32.0m

Money raised

Fuel50 is a company that provides a career path and coaching platform built with artifical intelligence and machine learning.

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$8.3m

Money raised

Kalibrr is a recruitment company connecting talents to companies. It provides end-to-end services including a jobs portal, recruitment system, employer branding and online assessment.

1

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$150.0k

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A company helping software engineering professionals acquire jobs abroad.

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$33.8m

Money raised

Academia.edu is a social networking website founded in 2008.

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$5.2m

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Decentralized and tokenized cohort-based learning and on-demand talent platform, powered by a curated global creative community.

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BEAMSTART is a Startup Accelerator and online platform for Startup News, Business Networking, and Entrepreneurial Resources founded in 2016 by Kenneth Ho, Wallace Ho, and Benjamin Tan.

1

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$7.5m

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Career advancement platform for Black, Latinx, and Native American students and professionals.

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3

Funding Rounds

$5.8m

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Doostang is a New York City-based company founded in 2005.

7

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$24.6m

Money raised

Jazz is a company founded in 2009 by Don Charlton.

6

Funding Rounds

$32.9m

Money raised

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

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1

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$11.0m

Money raised

Alongside is a company founded in 2014.

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$3.5m

Money raised

Sourceress is an artificial Intelligence job recruiter company founded by Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht in 2015.

3

Funding Rounds

$760.1m

Money raised

Remote is a global payroll, tax, HR and compliance solution for distributed teams.

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7

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$13.4m

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Brazen is a virtual events and virtual career fair platform provider.

9

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$157.2m

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

4

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$283.5m

Money raised

Collaborative learning platform that helps companies unlock knowledge based on shared expertise.

3

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$1.8m

Money raised

Powering the next‑generation of staffing agencies and recruiters to run their business online.

1

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$12.0m

Money raised

Artificial intelligence company providing AI-powered chatbots and semantic search to boost self-service and e-commerce conversions.

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5

Funding Rounds

$4.8m

Money raised

WhoKnows developed an omni-channel lead generation platform, powered by AI, for use in startup companies.

3

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$17.7m

Money raised

Jobbatical is on a mission to help the world work together. Working towards making relocation fully paperless.

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$15.0k

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Career network connecting students and recent graduates with job opportunities.

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2

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$60.0m

Money raised

Crew is a workforce management and solutions platform and software developed to improve communication on teams.

2

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$1.4m

Money raised

Proven.com is a company founded in 2009 by Sean Falconer.

1

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$8.0m

Money raised

Vahan is an artificial Intelligence company providing a jobs marketplace built on top of WhatsApp.

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6

Funding Rounds

$178.0m

Money raised

SilkRoad Technology is a Chicago-based company founded in 2003 by Andrew Filipowski.

3

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$48.3m

Money raised

A technology company providing a software solution to facilitate international mobility and relocation for companies and employees.

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