Top 25 Startups developing AI for Recruiting

Updated: Nov 17, 2025
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These startups develop AI solutions that can help to tackle the administrative nightmare of scheduling interviews, automatically find and rank candidates, capture unstructured data from resumes, assess technical candidates through auto-generated coding challenges.
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Eightfold
Country: USA | Funding: $424M
Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
2
Gloat
Country: USA | Funding: $192.6M
Gloat is an AI-based anonymous career development platform allowing users to both know their worth and get concrete offers in real time.
3
Mercor
Country: USA | Funding: $133.6M
Mercor is an AI-based hiring platform designed to improve the recruitment process for both job seekers and companies. It's focused on top-tier experts for AI model training and evaluation.
4
Ashby
Country: USA | Funding: $120M
Ashby is a developer of recruitment software used for high-growth companies. It uses AI to automatically find times that work for interviewers and interviewees and infer demographic data like gender and ethnicity, which clients use for aggregate analyses of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) hiring metrics.
5
Untapped
Country: USA | Funding: $82.7M
Jumpstart is an AI-powered career recruiting platform for students and companies in tech.
6
RippleMatch
Country: USA | Funding: $79.2M
RippleMatch develops diversity-focused graduate recruitment platform powered by AI
7
Fetcher
Country: USA | Funding: $47.3M
Fetcher offers automated candidate sourcing services.
8
Textio
Country: USA | Funding: $42.5M
Augmented writing is fueled by massive quantities of data, contributed by companies across industries and around the world. Textio’s predictive engine uses this data to uncover meaningful patterns in language, guiding you to stronger communication and better business outcomes.
9
Leena AI
Country: USA | Funding: $40M
Leena is smart AI powered HR companion dedicated towards engaging employees
10
Juicebox
Country: USA | Funding: $36M
Juicebox provides an AI platform for talent sourcing, recruiting and engagement.
11
retrain.ai
Country: Israel | Funding: $34M
retrain.ai uses AI and Machine Learning to read job boards at scale and to gain insight into where the job market is going
12
Filtered.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $17.2M
Filtered is a platform that helps companies hire better engineers based on ability, not resumes.
13
Alex
Country: USA | Funding: $17M
Alex is an AI-agent that allows to hire the best candidates faster
14
Optimal AI
Country: USA | Funding: $13M
Optimal AI helps software engineering teams measure, optimize, and act on metrics to drive impactful outcomes.
15
Woo.io
Country: Israel | Funding: $11.4M
Woo connects candidates who are discreetly exploring new opportunities to companies with the right job for them.
16
impress.ai
Country: Singapore | Funding: $10.4M
impress.ai develops AI-powered chatbots for recruiters
17
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.
18
Vervoe
Country: Australia | Funding: $7.2M
Vervoe is a hiring software used by recruiters and hiring managers. Vervoe uses AI machine learning that can test candidates for any skill, and automatically grade their responses.
19
Jobpal
Country: Germany | Funding: €2.7M
Jobpal build custom chatbots that facilitate the engagement between companies and candidates.
20
Riminder
Country: France | Funding: $2.3M
Riminder operates as an AI assistant that automates talent assessment by leveraging state of the art deep learning technology.
Siddhant Patel
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Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)pro