Big News: Talent Agent Is Out of Beta, and We Raised a Funding Round!
Two pieces of good news for job seekers today: HiringCafe has raised $6.8 million in funding, and Talent Agent, our AI job search tool, is officially out of beta for everyone in the US.
What the funding means for you
For our users, this funding means we can keep doing this, and do it better. HiringCafe grew to more than 2 million monthly users entirely by word of mouth, without spending a dollar on marketing. This round, led by Spark Capital with Nonfiction Capital, Silicon Gardens, and angel investors from ZipRecruiter and Indeed, lets us keep the lights on, keep the product free, and keep making it faster and smarter. It also lets us keep crawling the web looking for all the jobs, and indexing 5 million+ jobs, including the hard-to-find jobs that never make it onto traditional job boards.
Talent Agent, new and improved
Talent Agent is an AI agent that searches across every job in our index on your behalf, 24/7, and flags new roles the moment they go live. It reads your resume, learns what you’re looking for, and filters out ghost listings so you only see real, actively hiring roles.
During the beta, many thousands of you tried it and told us what worked and what didn’t, especially in our Reddit community. We listened. The version launching today is faster, and incorporates a lot of your feedback.
If you tried the beta, come back. You’ll notice the difference. If you haven’t tried Talent Agent yet, there has never been a better time. It’s free, and it always will be for job seekers.
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If you want more details, read our press release. Thank you all for being a part of our HiringCafe community. We couldn’t do this without you.
— The HiringCafe team
P.S. Is this the first step toward the enshittification of HiringCafe? We know that a lot of you will be worried about that. Are we selling out? Will our longtime commitment to “never allow anyone to force us into a monetization path that will ruin the search experience” for you eventually cave under the pressure of shareholders? The answer is that we’ve been very selective about who we invite to invest in us, and we insist that they share our vision to first make the best job search product in the known universe, and then develop a business model that allows us to be profitable but still stick to our principles. That hasn’t changed.