Top 29 Recruiting Software startups

Updated: Nov 18, 2025
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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
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.
2
SmartRecruiters
Country: USA | Funding: $225M
SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform to find, engage, and hire talent. Acquired by SAP
3
Fountain
Country: USA | Funding: $218.9M
Fountain develops all-in-one hiring platform, built for today's workforce.
4
SeekOut
Country: USA | Funding: $188.6M
SeekOut gives companies a competitive edge in recruiting hard-to-find and diverse talent.
5
Gem
Country: USA | Funding: $148M
Gem is a recruiting platform that integrates with third-party applications such as LinkedIn, Gmail, etc.
6
Lever
Country: USA | Funding: $122.8M
Lever builds modern recruiting software for teams to source, interview, and hire top talent.
7
Workstream
Country: USA | Funding: $118M
Workstream is an automated hiring platform that helps companies employing hourly workers.
8
Greenhouse
Country: USA | Funding: $110.1M
Greenhouse is the hiring software company.
9
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.
10
Sense
Country: USA | Funding: $89.5M
Sense is a smart talent engagement and communication platform that helps companies find, recruit, and deploy talent.
11
Canvas
Country: USA | Funding: $89.1M
Jumpstart is an AI-powered career recruiting platform for students and companies in tech.
12
Workable
Country: USA | Funding: $84.2M
Workable is the world’s leading hiring platform, where companies find, evaluate and hire better candidates, faster.
13
Ashby
Country: USA | Funding: $70M
Ashby is a developer of recruitment software used for high-growth companies.
14
Fetcher
Country: USA | Funding: $47.3M
Fetcher offers automated candidate sourcing services.
15
Bullhorn
Country: USA | Funding: $32.1M
Bullhorn provides cloud-based CRM solutions for companies in business services industries. Acquired by Insight Partners
16
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.
17
Jazz
Country: USA | Funding: $24.6M
JazzHR is easy, powerful and affordable recruiting software purpose-build for SMBs. SaaS ATS for masses.
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
ModernLoop
Country: USA | Funding: $12.1M
ModernLoop helps companies automate and streamline recruiting operations..
20
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.
21
HiPeople
Country: Germany | Funding: $6.8M
HiPeople creates in-depth talent insights to make hiring easy for everyone.
22
Willo
Country: UK | Funding: $5.4M
Willo develops Video Interviewing Platform
23
WorkTorch
Country: USA | Funding: $4.2M
WorkTorch is a career discovery platform for the service economy.
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
Skyworker
Country: Ukraine | Funding: $1.5M
Skyworker helps tech companies to automate external tech community building for hiring purposes
27
Swyg
Country: Ireland | Funding: $1.2M
Swyg is an Interviewing Platform for Hiring Companies
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