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AddedMar 20, 2024
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Juicebox

Juicebox

Series B

Juicebox is an AI recruiting platform that powers talent sourcing with search, CRM, and agents.

HQ
San Francisco, CA, US
Founded
2022
Accelerator
Y Combinator logoY CombinatorS22
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Contents

  1. 01Executive Summary
  2. 02Products & Services
  3. 03Competitive Strengths
  1. 01Executive Summary
  2. 02Products & Services
  3. 03Competitive Strengths

Memo

Juicebox is an AI recruiting platform founded by David Paffenholz and Ishan Gupta in 2022, backed by Sequoia Capital, DST Global, Coatue, Y Combinator, NFDG, and Verified Capital. The company has raised one hundred sixteen million dollars in total funding at an eight hundred fifty million dollar valuation.

The platform serves over 5,000 customers including Perplexity, Ramp, OpenAI, and Cognition. Juicebox has crossed ten million dollars in ARR with 20%+ monthly growth. The team is based in San Francisco and operates in the HR tech and recruiting software markets.

Product Overview

Juicebox offers PeopleGPT, an AI-powered talent search engine that scans 800 million profiles across 30+ sources using natural language queries. The platform includes CRM for pipeline management, automated outreach sequences, and AI agents that run searches end-to-end.

Customers include Perplexity, Ramp, OpenAI, Cognition, and Fortune 500 companies. Juicebox scored 79% on Exa's People Search Benchmark, outperforming other search systems. The company has raised $116M in total funding.

Competitive Advantages

Juicebox's natural language search enables recruiters to find candidates using conversational queries rather than keyword matching. The platform scores tens of thousands of profiles per search, infers quality signals like leadership experience and industry tenure, and ranks candidates by fit.

Unlike legacy recruiting tools that simply organize resumes, Juicebox actively sources, qualifies, and engages candidates on behalf of the hiring team. The platform offers Autopilot mode and Agent mode for varying levels of automation.