Seattle-based startup Humanly is shopping for three recruiting expertise firms — Sprockets, Qualifi, and HourWork — because it goals to construct a complete hiring platform that unites sourcing, screening, interviewing, and post-hire engagement beneath a single system.
Based in 2018, Humanly makes use of automation software program to assist firms display screen job candidates, schedule interviews, automate preliminary communication, run reference checks, and extra. It targets clients with excessive quantity hiring wants.
The acquisitions every add new instruments to Humanly’s platform:
- Sprockets brings sourcing and frontline supervisor instruments to strengthen expertise pipelines.
- Qualifi provides automated telephone and voice screening, complementing Humanly’s chat, SMS, and video techniques.
- HourWork extends Humanly into post-hire engagement, serving to firms onboard, practice, and retain hourly employees.
Phrases of the acquisitions weren’t disclosed.
The offers mark a serious enlargement for Humanly, and comes simply after Workday’s $1 billion acquisition of Paradox, one in all Humanly’s most important rivals. M&A exercise within the HR software program sector is up this year.
Humanly’s broader purpose is to assist employers automate outreach and screening for each applicant — not simply the small fraction that sometimes receives a response.
“Anytime there’s a two-way dialog with a job candidate, we wish to make that extra environment friendly, extra equitable,” stated Humanly CEO Prem Kumar.
Generative AI instruments have dramatically elevated utility quantity as candidates can mass-apply to openings, in line with Kumar. This pattern can also be making it more durable to distinguish candidates.
Humanly is equipping firms with AI instruments of their very own to assist kind by way of functions, together with its new AI Video Interviewer, which launched earlier this yr and mechanically conducts and transcribes interviews.
Kumar stated the purpose is to not substitute recruiters, however to develop entry and fill gaps.
“It’s serving to you get to 100% of candidates, not 5%,” he stated.
He added that there’s some pushback from job candidates who don’t wish to interact with an AI system. “However what we’re discovering is it’s not the distinction between speaking to AI and a human — it’s a distinction between speaking to AI or being ignored,” Kumar stated.
Humanly makes use of the thousands and thousands of transcripts collected from its AI chat and video techniques to coach fashions that rating candidates extra precisely and assist recruiters make selections.
The startup now claims 600 million candidate profiles and helps firms interview about 250,000 candidates monthly.
Kumar stated Humanly is deliberately not worthwhile because it invests forward in infrastructure. The corporate employs simply over 50 individuals following the acquisitions; it’s hiring some workers from the three acquired corporations.
Humanly now has over 100 clients, together with Microsoft, Rogers Communications, MGM, and Dish Community. Kumar stated the corporate tripled its income in 2025 and plans to lift extra funding subsequent yr.
The corporate raised $7 million in Might. Whole funding up to now is $24 million.
Kumar beforehand spent a decade at Microsoft the place he helped combine LinkedIn knowledge into Microsoft’s merchandise. He co-founded Humanly with Andrew Gardner and Bryan Leptich. The startup graduated from Y Combinator in 2019.
