Flybridge is a seed-stage VC investing with entrepreneurs to leverage the power of the community. It prefers to invest in computer hardware, software, SaaS, and big data sectors. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Flybridge

Silas Capital is a venture and growth equity firm growing the next generation of consumer brands. Silas Capital differentiates itself by being one of the few experienced firms specializing in ''early'' growth-stage consumer businesses between $5 million and $20 million in revenue. Additionally, we allocate 10% of our capital for venture stage digital brands.

Silas Capital

RTP Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City that invests in companies that create applied solutions for concrete problems for financial services and healthcare using IT and IoT Technologies as a foundation.  These companies almost always provided B2B products and usually deliver these products as SaaS. The firm prefers to invest in companies that locate themselves close to their customers (which usually means not in Silicon Valley).  Its portfolio includes a number of investments with part of the team overseas and headquarters in the U.S.

RTP Ventures

Haystack is a venture capital firm that backs outlier founders at the earliest stages.

Haystack

Bossa Invest manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients. It analyzes market trends to inform investment decisions. Bossa Invest serves multiple sectors, including finance, technology, and real estate.

Bossa Invest

Ground Up Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups in the United States and Israel.

Ground Up Ventures

Rabil Ventures provides capital, advisory, and operating expertise to entrepreneurs and companies at any stage. They work and invest across a variety of industries, with their deepest expertise lying in sports, financial services, and health and wellness.  Rabil Ventures was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Rabil Ventures

J Ventures is a venture capital firm. They move fast on decisions, are patient with growth timelines, and hustle to help entrepreneurs reach their goals.

J Ventures

Surface Ventures is a seed and pre-seed venture capital firm focused on partnering with B2B software companies.

Surface Ventures

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm which helps entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.

Index Ventures

Our mission is to coach and invest in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations. Led by Jeff Weiner and Brian Rumao. Sector focus areas include B2B / enterprise software, financial tech, consumer apps, health and wellness and education. We are interested in productivity software and virtual work, direct-to-consumer / e-commerce, SaaS, and data and AI/ML-powered platforms.

Next Play Ventures

01 Advisors is a venture and advisory firm helping founders go from building a product to building a company. The firm was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

01 Advisors

The Zoom Apps Fund is a $100 million global venture fund to stimulate growth of our ecosystem of Zoom Apps, integrations, and hardware. Portfolio companies will receive an initial investment of $250,000 to $2.5 million to build solutions that will become core to how our customers meet, communicate, and collaborate.

Zoom Apps Fund

BrightHire

BrightHire develops a performance optimization technology for recruiting teams. Its platform unlocks hidden value from every candidate conversation to help your team fill roles faster, improve recruiter success, and capture candidate intelligence.

BrightHire is a company that offers an AI-powered interview intelligence platform designed to enhance and streamline the hiring process. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to automate manual tasks, accelerate decision-making, and decrease time-to-hire. BrightHire's technology includes features such as AI-generated interview notes, automated summaries of key topics discussed during interviews, and AI-powered candidate recaps. The platform also offers tools to create job descriptions and structured interview plans, as well as the ability to generate candidate highlights for more effective decision-making. BrightHire's solution aims to boost recruiter productivity by allowing them to focus on quality conversations with candidates while the AI handles note-taking and summarization tasks. The platform also facilitates the comparison of candidates by automatically surfacing similar questions, answers, and topics between different applicants, enabling more effective debriefs and informed hiring decisions.

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BrightHire is a company that offers an AI-powered interview intelligence platform designed to enhance and streamline the hiring process. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to automate manual tasks, accelerate decision-making, and decrease time-to-hire. BrightHire's technology includes features such as AI-generated interview notes, automated summaries of key topics discussed during interviews, and AI-powered candidate recaps. The platform also offers tools to create job descriptions and structured interview plans, as well as the ability to generate candidate highlights for more effective decision-making. BrightHire's solution aims to boost recruiter productivity by allowing them to focus on quality conversations with candidates while the AI handles note-taking and summarization tasks. The platform also facilitates the comparison of candidates by automatically surfacing similar questions, answers, and topics between different applicants, enabling more effective debriefs and informed hiring decisions.
Key customers and partnerships
BrightHire's customer base includes companies from various industries. Some of the notable customers include Sourcegraph, Recalc Academy, and Rippling. Carly Jones, VP of Talent & People at Sourcegraph, praised BrightHire for enabling recruiters to work in sync with hiring managers. Jennifer Hasche, VP of Global Tech Recruiting at Rippling, highlighted how BrightHire helps improve the candidate experience. Katie F., CEO at Recalc Academy, expressed a strong preference for using BrightHire in the interview process.

Filtered is a skill-based hiring platform that leverages AI technology to revolutionize the technical hiring process. The company's core offering is a system that assesses candidates' fit for job roles, teams, and companies through capabilities-based hiring methods. Filtered's platform employs proprietary remote desktop technology to enable candidates to complete assessments for various technical skills, including cloud-related competencies. The company's services include candidate authentication, fraud detection, video interviews, and code challenges, all designed to provide a comprehensive evaluation of potential hires. Filtered's technology aims to overcome common challenges in tech hiring by focusing on practical skills rather than traditional credentials. The platform also offers reporting tools to help employers monitor hiring-related performance metrics and identify procedural gaps.
Key customers and partnerships
Filtered's client base includes several high-profile tech companies. The platform was being utilized by prominent companies such as Lyft, Cengage, Facebook, and Informatica for their technical hiring needs. The company's focus on skill-based hiring has attracted employers seeking to move beyond traditional hiring methods that rely heavily on academic credentials.

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Metaview.ai is an AI recruiting technology company that focuses on improving the quality and efficiency of interview processes. The company's core product leverages advanced large language models, including OpenAI's GPT-4, to provide AI-powered interview summarization and a conversational interface for interviews. Metaview's technology eliminates the need for manual note-taking during interviews, allowing recruiters to focus on engaging with candidates. The platform offers features such as Metaview Answers, which enables recruiters to ask questions about candidates and receive instant summaries of key details, exact data points, and underlying insights based on interview discussions. This AI-enabled model helps recruiters extract data from unstructured, information-dense interviews, saving time and improving decision-making. Metaview's customers save an average of 5-10 hours per week per recruiter and experience a 20% reduction in time-to-hire due to higher-quality interviews. The company was founded in 2018 by Siadhal Magos and Shahriar Tajbakhsh.

Metaview

TalentGuard, founded in 2009, is a talent management company that offers an AI-powered workforce intelligence platform called WorkforceGPT. The company's platform helps organizations uncover and foster talent within their workforce, simplifying complex information and making it actionable. TalentGuard's technology focuses on assessing employees' current skills and proficiency levels, developing those skills, and cataloging skill data to determine successful career paths and succession proposals. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to identify and develop employees' skills and proficiencies, which can increase productivity and improve work quality.
In November 2023, TalentGuard introduced two significant enhancements to WorkforceGPT: Skill Builder and Skill-Based Learning Link Builder. Skill Builder generates technical, leadership, and soft skills with comprehensive definitions and behavioral indicators across four proficiency levels. The Skill-Based Learning Link Builder identifies relevant learning resources, bridging the gap between skill development and practical learning opportunities. These tools aim to help organizations customize and expand their skill libraries, fostering a more dynamic approach to talent development.
TalentGuard's software provides organizations with insights about employee proficiencies, qualifications, experiences, certifications, and work-style preferences. The company's solutions are designed to help businesses reinvest in their employees, offering tools for reskilling and upskilling existing staff. TalentGuard's platform also assists in ensuring workforce compliance with industry regulations and promotes diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.

TalentGuard

Talkpush is a recruitment automation platform that leverages chat interfaces and conversational AI to streamline high-volume hiring processes. Founded in 2014, the company's software enables employers to automate engagement with candidates at scale, handling millions of conversations with job seekers worldwide. Talkpush's technology allows for both automated and human-assisted interactions, with the majority of candidate conversations being fully AI-driven. The platform integrates with leading applicant tracking systems and supports various communication channels including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram.
Talkpush's product offerings include automated workflows that eliminate up to 95% of top-of-funnel manual tasks in recruitment. The system allows candidates to bypass traditional email and web procedures, reducing the number of face-to-face interviews recruiters need to conduct. Features include the ability to capture voice, video, and other rich media from candidates, as well as tools for recruiters to set up automated shortlisting, rejection, and interview scheduling based on predetermined criteria. In October 2020, Talkpush reported that its users saw a 250% increase in productivity, as measured by hires per recruiter.
The company has expanded its services to include an Automated Onboarding platform, helping new hires prepare for their first day on the job. Talkpush's technology was used to automate more than 10 million conversations with candidates in 2019, surpassing any other recruitment platform globally. The company operates primarily in emerging markets, with a focus on Southeast Asia and Latin America.
Key customers and partnerships
Talkpush serves leading employers in the retail, business process outsourcing (BPO), and staffing sectors. Notable clients include Walmart, McDonald's, Adecco, Concentrix, Teleperformance, and Accenture. The company has also worked with VXI Philippines to implement recruitment chatbots on Instagram.
In April 2020, Talkpush secured funding from Latin Leap, a Colombia-based venture capital studio, to accelerate its growth in the Latin American market. The company has customers in over 10 countries, including Costa Rica, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina. Talkpush has partnered with various companies to enhance its offerings.

Talkpush

Worklytics is a B2B analytics company specializing in employee engagement and workplace optimization. The company offers a platform that analyzes anonymous collaboration data across various tools such as Office 365, Google Calendar, Drive, Slack, Zoom, GitHub, and JIRA to provide insights into team effectiveness and work patterns. Worklytics' technology focuses on improving how employees spend time, coordinate tasks, and balance individual work with collaboration. The platform utilizes techniques like organizational network analysis (ONA) and predictive analytics to gain insights into team collaboration while prioritizing employee privacy. Worklytics does not store or analyze any work content, instead using only exhaust/log data to understand workflow and collaboration patterns. The company's services are adaptable to diverse working environments, including remote and hybrid setups. Worklytics offers real-time insights through its DataStream work data pipeline and provides organizational benchmarks for companies to compare their metrics with industry peers. The platform also aims to drive positive organizational change through targeted nudges to leaders and managers. As of February 2024, Worklytics operates with a team of nine employees and is based in Seattle, Washington. The company was part of the Y-Combinator Winter 2018 batch.
Key customers and partnerships
Worklytics has established a clientele that includes prominent companies such as Uber, Boston Dynamics, and Nutanix. The company serves clients across the US, Canada, and other remote work setups. Worklytics integrates with popular tools including Google Workspace, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Salesforce to collect collaboration data and provide comprehensive insights into workforce dynamics.

Worklytics

Companies that offer AI-powered tools to support interview-related activities, including interview note-taking, candidate screening, skills testing, and other behavioral insights

Companies that develop AI-powered tools to streamline skill management tasks, including developing training flows, managing employee learning, and creating personalized training and coaching programs. This segment also includes companies that develop GenAI assistants to handle employee queries related to the organization and related processes

Companies that utilize GenAI and machine learning to generate analytics, insights, and dashboards related to human resource management, including employee lifecycle, recruitment, retention, behavioral and social insights, inclusion, compensation, rewards, workforce engagement

Companies that develop AI solutions to manage the employee feedback cycle, including feedback cycle setting, goal setting, developing feedback surveys, analysis of surveys, maintaining job descriptions, and career progression mapping. This segment also includes companies that utilize AI tools to analyze and maintain workplace diversity and inclusiveness

Companies that offer AI-powered tools to recruitment-related activities, including creating job descriptions, sourcing talent via various channels such as social media, carrying out background checks, candidate tracking, and engaging with potential candidates. This segment also includes freelance recruitment platforms that utilize AI-powered tools to match candidates with suitable roles

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