Top 29 Recruiting Software startups

Updated: Mar 25, 2026
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These startups want to disrupt recruiting software by introducing AI-powered candidate screening, video interview analysis tools and predictive hiring analytics.
1
Ashby
Country: USA | Funding: $120M
Ashby is a developer of recruitment software used for high-growth companies.
2
Willo
Country: UK | Funding: $9.4M
Willo develops Video Interviewing Platform
3
Eightfold
Country: USA | Funding: $424M
Eightfold develops a platform that helps companies find, hire, and retain talents. Specifically, it features an AI Interviewer, which automatically conducts conversational video-interviews and analyzes candidates, highlighting those who best meet hiring criteria. The developers claim the AI understands context and nuance in over 22 languages ​​to ask thoughtful, insightful questions - just like your most experienced hiring manager. The platform also integrates enterprise data, market trends, and real-time job signals to create a dynamic understanding of your workforce. By modeling the skills, capabilities, aspirations, and work people perform every day, it helps you anticipate talent needs, close skill gaps, and improve productivity.
4
Jobvite
Country: USA | Funding: $255.5M
From full-featured applicant tracking and analytic capabilities to social recruiting tools and social recruiting tools, Jobvite's talent acquisition platform has something to keep all recruiters, hiring managers, HR personnel, and executives happy and working together.
5
SmartRecruiters
Country: USA | Funding: $225M
SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform to find, engage, and hire talent. Acquired by SAP
6
Fountain
Country: USA | Funding: $218.9M
Fountain develops all-in-one hiring platform, built for today's workforce.
7
SeekOut
Country: USA | Funding: $188.6M
SeekOut gives companies a competitive edge in recruiting hard-to-find and diverse talent.
8
Gem
Country: USA | Funding: $148M
Gem is a recruiting platform that integrates with third-party applications such as LinkedIn, Gmail, etc.
9
Lever
Country: USA | Funding: $122.8M
Lever builds modern recruiting software for teams to source, interview, and hire top talent.
10
Workstream
Country: USA | Funding: $118M
Workstream is an automated hiring platform that helps companies employing hourly workers.
11
Greenhouse
Country: USA | Funding: $110.1M
Greenhouse is the hiring software company.
12
iCIMS
Country: USA | Funding: $92.6M
iCIMS offers HR professionals with a web-based employment management system featuring a parsing tool to automate resume acquisition.
13
Sense
Country: USA | Funding: $89.5M
Sense is a smart talent engagement and communication platform that helps companies find, recruit, and deploy talent.
14
Canvas
Country: USA | Funding: $89.1M
Jumpstart is an AI-powered career recruiting platform for students and companies in tech.
15
Workable
Country: USA | Funding: $84.2M
Workable is the world’s leading hiring platform, where companies find, evaluate and hire better candidates, faster.
16
Fetcher
Country: USA | Funding: $47.3M
Fetcher offers automated candidate sourcing services.
17
Bullhorn
Country: USA | Funding: $32.1M
Bullhorn provides cloud-based CRM solutions for companies in business services industries. Acquired by Insight Partners
18
Paraform
Country: USA | Funding: $25M
Paraform is a recruiting marketplace that connects businesses with available positions to recruiters capable of filling those roles.
19
Jazz
Country: USA | Funding: $24.6M
JazzHR is easy, powerful and affordable recruiting software purpose-build for SMBs. SaaS ATS for masses.
20
Codility
Country: UK | Funding: $24.6M
Codility is a SaaS platform that helps tech recruiters and hiring managers engage, recruit, and train stronger engineers, faster.
21
ModernLoop
Country: USA | Funding: $12.1M
ModernLoop helps companies automate and streamline recruiting operations..
22
Xor.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $9.3M
XOR specializes in human resource and talent acquisition workflow automation. Leveraging the cutting-edge technologies of Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, hiring automation and AI chatbots for recruiting, XOR is an enterprise-now SaaS platform that will streamline the most challenging and time-consuming processes in recruiting.
23
HiPeople
Country: Germany | Funding: $6.8M
HiPeople creates in-depth talent insights to make hiring easy for everyone.
24
FriendWork
Country: Russia | Funding: $2.5M
FriendWork Recruiter provides online service for recruiting automation.
25
Breezy HR
Country: USA | Funding: $1.9M
Breezy HR the modernizes hiring process with end-to-end recruiting software built to scale for every-sized team. Acquired by Learning Technologies Group
26
Swyg
Country: Ireland | Funding: $1.2M
Swyg is an Interviewing Platform for Hiring Companies
27
Glorri
Country: Azerbaijan | Funding: $250K
Glorri is a tech-savvy company that develops software to facilitate candidate pipeline management and eliminates hiring mistakes.
28
HireLakeAI
Country: India
HireLakeAI, an AI-powered recruitment platform for frictionless hiring is a one-stop solution for screening, evaluating and filtering out the best candidates on the basis of 3 broad domains parameters
29
Djinni.co
Country: Ukraine
Djinni enables passive and anonymous search - when people are looking for you, not you. This reflects the realities of the labor market, where experienced specialists are in constant shortage.
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Fernando Lopez is a senior editor for SaaStartups. He joined the company after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to his work as a reporter, Fernando worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software. Fernando graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (Computer Science). He is more-than-averagely interested in photography and can often be found with a camera slung over his shoulder. He wrote a book about pitching startups to investors. You can contact Fernando at fernandolopez(at)saastartups(dot)com