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Funding and advertised pay are reported in USD; filed accounts retain their stated source currency and basis.

Exchange-rate basis

Indicative conversions use ECB reference rates dated 2026-09-14, applied consistently across all periods. They are not historical exchange rates. Indian rupees may use crore (1 crore = 10 million); other currencies use K, M and B. CSV downloads, source documents and quoted news headlines retain their original currencies.

THE AUSTRALIA EDITION 2026

Australia’s
recruiting tech industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping recruiting tech in Australia. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

Snapshot: Funding in USD
Illustrated cover for Recruiting Tech Industry Landscape of Australia
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COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

Recruiting Tech illustration
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore Australia’s recruiting tech leaders

24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.

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Recruiting Tech company highlights in Australia, snapshot 2 September 2026
Company
Reejigreejig.com$40.2M64
Hireuphireup.com.au$40M1,075
Sapia.aisapia.ai$24M64
Sidekickersidekicker.com$23.7M133
Xrefxref.com$20.05M60
DesignCrowddesigncrowd.com$18.79M539
myInterviewmyinterview.com$17.48M35
Kulakula.ai$14.7M49
swipejobsswipejobs.com6 roles107
Global Talent Professionalsglobaltalentprofessionals.com.au4 roles
Barcatsbarcats.com.au3 roles38
GRiPgripjobs.com.au3 roles
InternMatchinternmatch.io3 roles49
MedicalJobsAustralia.commedicaljobsaustralia.com3 roles
ecommercerecruitment.comecommercerecruitment.com3 roles
Weployweployapp.com2 roles30
BrandCrowdbrandcrowd.com
ClassMarkerclassmarker.com
Community Jobsethicaljobs.com.au
Expert360expert360.com138
Freelancerfreelancer.com2,974Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
INX Softwareinxsoftware.com137
Med Futuremedfuture.com.au72
ShiftCareshiftcare.com
24 featured companies

Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗

Company discovery

Recorded evidence only

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No company example met every recorded classification, independence and public-profile gate in this snapshot. The live directory may have newer qualifying companies.

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Recruiting Tech industry KPIs in Australia

A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.

2 September 2026
Hiring participation8.2%

39 of 473 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation10.4%

49 of 473 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share35.7%

Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.

Median disclosed round$1.5M

Midpoint of 57 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 35.7% of disclosed capital, while 89.6% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How Australia recruiting tech has grown

Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.

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2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

Australia recruiting tech
$0$28.32M$56.64M$84.96M$113.28M2016: $8.39M20162017: $19.5M20172018: $13.48M20182019: $10.2M20192020: $8.05M20202021: $62.5M20212022: $99.37M20222023: $27.32M20232024: $12.83M20242025: $324.85K2025
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Annual recruiting tech funding and company formation in Australia
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$8.39M276
2017$19.5M298
2018$13.48M335
2019$10.2M292
2020$8.05M443
2021$62.5M357
2022$99.37M279
2023$27.32M296
2024$12.83M283
2025$324.85K61
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • Reejig13.8%
  • Hireup13.7%
  • Sapia.ai8.2%
  • Other companies64.3%

Funding by stage

68 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel40 58.8%
Series A–B16 23.5%
Series C+ / PE2 2.9%
Grants, debt & other10 14.7%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
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Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
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Seed08/2022
Kulakula.ai$12M

Backed by Venture Highway and Together and others.

THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

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Annual accounts availability

The measured Australia identity-to-filing probe did not produce a qualifying designated legal or national-ID join: bare ticker overlaps lack a recorded ASX exchange designation and are not designated legal or national identifiers.; The measured Australia identity-to-filing probe did not produce a qualifying designated legal or national-ID join: bare ticker overlaps lack a recorded ASX exchange designation and are not designated legal or national identifiers.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

How the Australia companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.

Busiest websites

17 of the 473 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (3.6%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 390,423 visits.

CompanyMonthly visitsAuthorityMobile
Freelancerfreelancer.com5,855,9355628.6%
SEEKseek.com.au5,228,4407059.7%
TimeBuckstimebucks.com5,202,2314764.7%
BrandCrowdbrandcrowd.com1,222,4075364.5%
Himalayashimalayas.app647,8164021.7%
DesignCrowddesigncrowd.com569,9115312.7%
Community Jobsethicaljobs.com.au460,5274641.2%
Sapia.aisapia.ai410,1033242.9%
ShiftCareshiftcare.com390,4233926.2%
ISS-Schroleschrole.com319,9943519.3%

Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.

Most-installed apps

72 of these companies (15.2%) publish at least one Android app — 90 apps in all, carrying 21M installs between them.

AppInstallsRatingStore category
Freelancer: Hire & Find JobsFreelancer15.3M3.8Business
TimeBucksTimeBucks2M3.4Entertainment
SEEK PassSEEK Pass1.7M4.7Business
swipejobsswipejobs579.4K4Business
foundUfoundU171KBusiness
myShiftWork – Shift CalendarMy Shift Work133.3K4.1Productivity
ShiftCareShiftCare122.4K4.8Tools
uWorkin JobsuWorkin98.5KBusiness
Ento EmployeeEnto83.9KBusiness
nimbus Employee Appnimbus77.5K1.5Productivity

Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.

App reach by segment

The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q1–2025Q2).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Hrtech9021MFreelancer: Hire & Find Jobs 15.3M
Gig Employer It2173KfoundU 171K
Field Force Automation8143.4KShiftCare 122.4K
K-12 Edtech255.3KClassCover 55.3K
Assistive Tech348.1KHireup - NDIS provider 45.2K
Mining Tech58KPeopleTray 7.5K
Healthcare It21.5KuPaged 1.5K

A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.

Release cadence by quarter

New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.

2022Q4: 12022Q4: 02022Q42023Q1: 42023Q1: 12023Q12023Q2: 22023Q2: 12023Q22023Q3: 52023Q3: 32023Q32023Q4: 12023Q4: 02023Q42024Q1: 12024Q1: 12024Q12024Q2: 42024Q2: 32024Q22024Q3: 22024Q3: 32024Q32024Q4: 32024Q4: 22024Q42025Q1: 12025Q1: 22025Q12025Q2: 32025Q2: 22025Q2

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 70 of 90 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2025Q2, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The Australia recruiting tech market map

Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Enterprise tech452
Consumer digital294
B2c e-commerce292
Future of work179
Enterprise software149
Saas141
Hr saas141
Deskless workforce112
Marketplaces84
Sharing economy58
Justice tech15
Field workforce management14

Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Enterprise tech

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

452companies
8.0%have hiring activity

36 companies hiring · $280.08M disclosed funding

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How companies make money

Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.

Subscription402
Commission on transaction182
Advertising169
E-commerce - service71
Fee-for-service33
Freemium27
E-commerce - product3
Sponsorship2
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

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Recent corporate headlines 10 dated reports
Mergers & acquisitionsmytommy.com ↗

Manchester-based brand activation agency ZEAL has acquired a 51% stake in Tommy, the social-first creative studio behind standout work for Amazon, TikTok, Netflix, Mastercard and Google.

Funding roundszeligate.ai ↗

Gold Coast-based AI startup Zeligate has secured a seed-round investment from DNX Ventures

Mergers & acquisitionsmyinterview.com ↗

Radancy, a recruitment marketing software company backed by New Mountain Capital, acquired myInterview, a video interview platform.

Mergers & acquisitionsfoundu.com.au ↗

HWL Ebsworth has advised Citation Group on its successful off-market takeover bid for foundU Holdings Limited.

Mergers & acquisitionsxref.com ↗

Seek’s hopes of acquiring workplace software player Xref have collapsed after shareholders in the smaller company rejected a $41 million takeover offer despite the endorsement of the board and an independent expert.

Mergers & acquisitionsrevelian.com ↗

Los Angeles-based Criteria Corp, a SaaS-based employment analytics platform, announced today that it has acquired Australia-based Revelian, the field of emotional intelligence and game-based assessments firm.

Earningsfreelancer.com ↗

Freelancer (FLN:ASX), the Sydney, Australia-based talent platform, posted net revenue of AUD 12.7 million (USD 9.1 million) in the first quarter of 2026, down 9.4% compared with the prior-year period, according to a business update released by the company on Wednesday.

Contractsstakk.com.au ↗

Stakk (ASX: SKK) has secured a master services agreement and corresponding service order form with US-based digital banking platform Chime Financial for the delivery of its Stakk IQ embedded finance solution.

Leadership movessapia.ai ↗

Sapia.ai, the ethical AI hiring platform used by Woolworths, Qantas, Suncorp, and 23% of the ASX 100, announced the appointment of Kim Macdonald as Head of Growth.

Earningscolescareers.com.au ↗

Liquor sales for the group increased by 3.4 per cent to $813m for the third quarter, compared to the same reporting period in 2024.

Full recorded event mix

Top 7 categories among 32 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Leadership moves
11
Earnings
8
Mergers & acquisitions
5
Contracts
3
Funding rounds
2
Company announcements
2
Regulatory
1
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Leadership moves

3 tracked people moves

Freelancer ↗
Dylan Carter

Appointment Chief Financial Officer

Freelancer ↗
Neil Katz

Resignation Chief Financial Officer

Sapia.ai ↗
Kim Macdonald

Appointment Head of Growth

Contract wins

3 recorded customer wins

Stakk Group ↗

Customer: Chime FinancialDigital Banking Platform

Stakk Group ↗

Customer: T-Mobile USATelecommunications

Regulatory events

1 recorded events

Tommy ↗

approved for takeoverCroatian Competition Agency (AZTN)

Mergers and acquisitions

Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
zealTommy ↗Announced2026-02-13Not stated in snapshot
radancymyInterview ↗Announced2025-09-11Not stated in snapshot
Citation GroupfoundU ↗Completed2025-06-11Not stated in snapshot
seekXref ↗Terminated2025-02-04$41.0M
criteria corpRevelian ↗Announced2025-01-07Not stated in snapshot
Valsoft Corporationeasyemployer ↗Announced2024-06-03Not stated in snapshot

A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

2 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 9-posting snapshot covers 6 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Vr Gp | Inherit A Full Patient Base | Perth Inner South1
Account Executive (Remote) []1
Site Engineer1
Contracts Administrator1
Commercial Accounting Manager Western Australia1
Estimator1
0 internship postings

2 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

2 postings specify a level.

unspecified
7
lead
1
manager
1
THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

195 founders and chief executives across 148 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

12 profiles with education records.

University of Cambridge
3
BITS Pilani
2
Monash University
2
The University of Tokyo
1
University College London
1
The University of Queensland
1
XLRI- Xavier School of Management
1
University of Delhi
1

Prior employers

4 profiles with prior-work records.

Microsoft
3
Salesforce
1
Uber
1

Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.

GEOGRAPHIC FOOTPRINT

Where companies are based

Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.

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8 cards

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UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPE

Recruiting Tech in Australia: key questions

Clear definitions for making better comparisons.

What does this landscape measure?

It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.

Can segment counts be added together?

No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.

What does a missing figure mean?

A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.

Company ecosystem snapshot: 2 September 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.

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