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BrightHire
Smart interview platform
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Marketplace
- Recruitment
- HR
- West Village, New York, NY
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Company mission
To give everyone the hiring experience they deserve.
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-21% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
BrightHire is an enterprise SaaS platform offering employers a Zoom-integrated hiring tool designed to assist interviewers in creating more equitable hiring practices. Their tech software records, transcribes, and helps standardize interviews, along with offering broader procedural analytics tools.
The bias-reduction benefits remain to be proven, and are not unique to BrightHire. However, with companies increasingly focused on publicly tackling hiring bias, they could have come at the right moment. HR tech is seeing a significant uptake of SaaS products, meaning their product and the field in general is likely to see good growth.
Series B funding secured in 2021 has been channeled into workforce expansion and developing the platform using big data insights. How competitive BrightHire remain will depend on how well they fare in a rapidly innovating sector.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Vacation bonus
- Competitive salary
- Meaningful equity
- 401(k) plan
- Health, vision, & dental
- Flexible PTO
- Work setup budget
- Quarterly Offsites
- Learning stipend
- Monthly snack delivery
- Team Events
Company values
- Put candidates first
- Act with generosity
- Operate like an owner
- Invest in our people
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$20.5m
SERIES B
May 2021
$12.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $36m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Benjamin Sesser
(CEO)Having worked at Garten Rothkopf and Gartner as a Strategy Consultant, Benjamin spent 2 years at Sailthru as Director of Strategy. In April 2019, he left his role of 4 years as VP of Finance and Operations at Enigma Technologies to co-found BrightHire.
Theodore Chestnut
(CRO)Having been Vice President of Business Development at Garten Rothkopf, Thoedore later joined LinkedIn as Senior Relationship Manager. He was here for 6 years, becoming Global Account Manager and then Senior Manager of Insights.