Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping recruiting tech in the United States. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
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 ↗
Recently founded means a recorded 2023–2026 founding year and no recorded parent, acquirer or public-company status. These companies are not labelled startups without that separate classification.
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404 of 4,008 tracked companies have open roles.
629 of 4,008 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 819 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 24.9% of disclosed capital, while 84.3% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $586.55M | 198 | 77 |
| 2017 | $546.03M | 210 | 82 |
| 2018 | $1.02B | 214 | 75 |
| 2019 | $1.25B | 220 | 69 |
| 2020 | $925.46M | 258 | 68 |
| 2021 | $5.47B | 258 | 99 |
| 2022 | $1.57B | 209 | 89 |
| 2023 | $539.64M | 237 | 54 |
| 2024 | $277.52M | 261 | 36 |
| 2025 | $775.31M | 64 | 53 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
977 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in recruiting tech company rounds since 2016.
Backed by Unbundledcapital.
Backed by Nexus Venture Partners and Goodwater Capital and others.
Backed by 1984 Ventures.
Backed by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Backed by Y Combinator.
Backed by DST Global and Sequoia Capital and others.
Backed by Scale Venture Partners and Liquid 2 Ventures and others.
Backed by SEEK Investments and Drive Capital and others.
Backed by New Enterprise Associates and March Capital and others.
Backed by Baillie Gifford and Franklin Templeton Investments and others.
Backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund and others.
Backed by Nvidia and Snowflake and others.
Backed by Durable Capital Partners and Fidelity Investments and others.
Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund and General Catalyst and others.
Backed by Panoramic Ventures and Blue Heron Capital and others.
Backed by Sapphire Ventures and Stripes and others.
Backed by Coatue and Base10 Partners and others.
Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund and Whale Rock Capital Management and others.
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2025 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 3 reporting entities from 5 eligible matches.
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not the United States market sales.
Combined result for the same cohort.
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
The middle covered reporting entity.
None of 3 covered entities.
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
FY2025 · 3 reporting entities
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| Company / reporting entity | Revenue | Net profit / loss | Net margin | Revenue growth | Total assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Advantage ↗1210677 | $1,574.4m | $-34.8m | -2.2% | — | — |
| Upwork ↗1627475 | $787.8m | $115.4m | +14.7% | — | — |
| ZipRecruiter ↗1617553 | $449.0m | $-33.0m | -7.3% | — | — |
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Each pair uses the same year, currency and reporting basis. Cohort overlap is disclosed.
| Industry | Covered / eligible | Revenue total | Median revenue | Net profit / loss | Aggregate margin | Profitable share | Overlap |
|---|
Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.
Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
How the the United States companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
132 of the 4,008 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (3.3%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 517,775 visits.
| Company | Monthly visits | Authority | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indeedindeed.com | 377,443,362 | 100 | 61.5% |
| Upworkupwork.com | 46,189,874 | 74 | 15.9% |
| Behancebehance.net | 45,271,051 | 80 | 15.9% |
| ZipRecruiterziprecruiter.com | 38,943,105 | 80 | 66.3% |
| AARPaarp.org | 26,519,628 | 82 | 63.1% |
| Glassdoorglassdoor.com | 24,860,253 | 77 | 53.9% |
| DataAnnotationdataannotation.tech | 22,887,970 | 46 | 55.2% |
| Handshakejoinhandshake.com | 17,589,111 | 65 | 31.5% |
| Amazonamazon.jobs | 16,304,148 | 76 | 52.6% |
| Jobs2Careersjobs2careers.com | 14,643,396 | 37 | 93.4% |
Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.
373 of these companies (9.3%) publish at least one Android app — 555 apps in all, carrying 395.8M installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indeed Job SearchIndeed | 260.8M | 4.7 | Business |
| Glassdoor | Jobs & CareersGlassdoor | 28.9M | 4.7 | Business |
| UpworkUpwork | 18.3M | 3.7 | Business |
| Job Search by ZipRecruiterZipRecruiter | 14.3M | 4.9 | Business |
| Snagajob - Jobs Hiring NowSnagajob | 7.3M | 3.8 | Business |
| AARP NowAARP | 5.5M | 4.7 | Lifestyle |
| Bondex: Web3 jobs & communityBondex | 3.8M | 3.4 | Business |
| JobseekerJobseeker | 3.5M | 3.3 | Business |
| Shiftsmart - Find WorkShiftsmart | 3.3M | 4 | Business |
| Deputy: Employee SchedulingDeputy | 2.6M | 4.7 | Business |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2024Q1–2026Q2).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hrtech | 554 | 395.7M | Indeed Job Search 260.8M | |
| Field Force Automation | 64 | 6.4M | Sling: Employee Scheduling App 1.9M | |
| Foundations | 4 | 5.7M | AARP Now 5.5M | |
| Gig Employer It | 57 | 5.7M | Legion Workforce Engagement 1M | |
| Food Tech | 10 | 3.4M | HotSchedules 1.5M | |
| In Store Retail Tech | 6 | 2.8M | Field Agent 1.9M | |
| Marketingtech | 7 | 2.2M | GigSpot 276.3K | |
| Healthcare It | 28 | 2.1M | OnShift Mobile 926.1K |
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.
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.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 544 of 555 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
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Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.
Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
383 companies hiring · $15.27B disclosed funding
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Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
SnapCare acquires connectRN
DOXA has entered the UK market with a deal for managing general underwriter (MGU) Eaton Gate Group.
Bellevue, Wash.-based Humanly, a startup that makes AI-powered interviewing tools for employers, announced it has acquired Anthill, a platform that uses AI to help companies connect with and support frontline employees.
Uniphore leads with nearly $985 million in total funding and a $2.5 billion valuation.
Crosschq acquired Traitify, a pre-employment assessment software platform, from Paradox to expand its data-driven hiring intelligence solutions.
Headway acquired Tezi, an agentic AI recruiting software developer, to enhance its talent acquisition platform with autonomous AI-driven hiring capabilities.
Paraform has now raised a total of $65.0M in total equity funding and is backed by A*, Felicis, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Scale Venture Partners.
Continuum, a leading marketing execution and creative services partner, has acquired Teldon, a print marketing company known for its personalized promotional print materials.
Findem, the AI platform for talent outcomes, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Glider AI, a skills validation platform.
HireVue acquires Hireguide
Top 10 categories among 395 recorded events in the 24-month window.
1 companies with recorded IPO activity
IPO · Hong Kong1 reports
40 tracked people moves
Departure Previously Chief Financial Officer
Appointment Chief Financial Officer
Promotion Chief Financial Officer
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Appointment Vice-President
Termination Previously Chief Executive Officer
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Appointment General Manager and Chief Operating Officer
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Mobile App
Cross‑system finance AI agents
Microwork platform
4 recorded customer wins
Customer: novartisPharmaceutical distribution
Customer: leo pharmaPharmaceutical distribution
Customer: alaska air group
Customer: morrisonsRetail
6 companies with reported reductions
1,000 rolesslowdown in global hiring
80 rolesshutting down division
15 rolesrestructuring
Scale not stated rolesAI focus
21.0% rolescost reduction
Scale not stated roles
1 recorded events
approved a similar exemptionFAA
2 tracked suits
post‑liquidation payments dispositionCivil · Verdict
unlawful termination for reporting alleged false statementsCivil · Settled
Reported company results in the recorded window.
Median across 45 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| snapcare→connectRN ↗ | Announced | 2026-05-04 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Doxa→Eaton Gate Group | Announced | 2026-04-28 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Humanly→anthill | Announced | 2026-04-18 | Not stated in snapshot |
| crosschq→Traitify ↗ | Announced | 2026-04-08 | Not stated in snapshot |
| headway→Tezi ↗ | Announced | 2026-04-08 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Doxa→Jupiter Underwriting Group | Completed | 2026-04-06 | Not stated in snapshot |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
114,124 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 146,923-posting snapshot covers 465 employers.
39,483 tracked postings mention remote work.
28,384 postings specify a level.
Top skills across 146,923 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
Median across 40,126 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.
Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| Averitt ↗ | 8,644 |
| Toptal ↗ | 5,272 |
| Magnit ↗ | 2,852 |
| NSC Technologies ↗ | 2,599 |
| AARP ↗ | 2,362 |
| ZipRecruiter ↗ | 1,400 |
| Scoot Education ↗ | 1,259 |
| Eastridge ↗ | 942 |
1,728 founders and chief executives across 1,291 companies.
Ex-CEO Cision, Oracle, Badgeville. University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business BA 1990
Ex-TeNet · Jaypee University of Information Technology BE 2007
Ex-Citadel Investment Group, D.E. Shaw, Goldman Sachs. Mays Business School - Texas A&M University BBA 2007
Blaise Pascal University (Clermont-II) - Clermont-Ferrand 2010, UTBM MSc 2013
Ex-LivePerson, Microsoft, McKinsey. Princeton University AB, University of Oxford
Ex-ITOxygen Enterprise. Michigan Technological University BS
Google, Synopsys · Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi BTech 1997, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign PhD 2002
Beeline, ex-Scientific Staffing, ex-Conagra Frozen Foods, Vanderbilt University, 1988
Andela, ex-Uber, ex-Mckinsey, Harvard University
Ex-Cielo Talent, Neighborhood House of Milwaukee. Luther College BA 2002, Marquette University MBA 2008
CEO HomeCare.com, ex-CEO SeniorLiving.Net, Founder Web.com, AOL. Bucknell University BS, Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business MBA
Turing, ex-Foundation Capital, ex-Revcontent, Stanford University, 2007
252 profiles with education records.
82 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
Compare demand signals in the United States’s newsflow with the recruiting tech categories mapped to each signal.
Signal percentile − supply percentile = gap in percentile points. Positive gaps highlight questions to investigate. A high signal can reflect spending pressure or access friction, as well as potential demand.
The comparison is relative to the signal families on this page. A supply percentile of zero means the lowest relative reading, not zero companies. It is a prioritisation clue, not measured market size or unmet demand.
Signal and mapped-supply percentiles, their gap, and change in the signal’s article share.
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| Signal family | Signal percentile | Supply percentile | Relative gap | Gap (points) | Signal share vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-assisted development ↗Adoption Shift | 50.0 | 0.0 | +50.0 | +192.0% | |
| Cloud & platform build-out ↗Infrastructure Shift | 85.7 | 66.7 | +19.0 | +88.4% | |
| Open-source momentum ↗Ecosystem Signal | 35.7 | 33.3 | +2.4 | +40.2% | |
| Tech workforce shifts ↗Spending Pressure | 85.7 | 100.0 | -14.3 | +78.1% | |
| Security incidents & breaches ↗Risk Pressure | 42.9 | — | No matching category | — | +22.2% |
| API economy ↗Integration Demand | 7.1 | — | No matching category | — | +7.5% |
| Outages & reliability incidents ↗Risk Pressure | 35.7 | — | No matching category | — | +48.6% |
| Data & privacy regulation ↗Compliance Pressure | 57.1 | — | No matching category | — | +55.4% |
Showing all 8 signals. Select a family for its history and mapped categories.
All 12 city readings for these demand families in the comparison geography. the United States is highlighted.
Each city’s reading is a share of its own coverage.
Cloud & platform build-out · Tech workforce shifts · API economy
Cloud & platform build-out · Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Data & privacy regulation
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Open-source momentum
Cloud & platform build-out · Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches
Tech workforce shifts · Data & privacy regulation · Security incidents & breaches
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Cloud & platform build-out · Security incidents & breaches · Tech workforce shifts
Tech workforce shifts · Open-source momentum · Data & privacy regulation
Tech workforce shifts · Cloud & platform build-out · Open-source momentum
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Tech workforce shifts · Cloud & platform build-out · Security incidents & breaches
If AI writes more of the work, the tools teams buy can change with it.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 15 | 0.09 |
| 2024Q4 | 36 | 0.2 |
| 2025Q1 | 64 | 0.26 |
| 2025Q2 | 80 | 0.5 |
| 2025Q3 | 137 | 0.5 |
| 2025Q4 | 109 | 0.9 |
| 2026Q1 | 156 | 1.08 |
| 2026Q2 | 60 | 0.78 |
Cloud and platform build-out can multiply the pipelines and environments a team must manage.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 403 | 2.36 |
| 2024Q4 | 335 | 1.89 |
| 2025Q1 | 616 | 2.46 |
| 2025Q2 | 564 | 3.54 |
| 2025Q3 | 948 | 3.48 |
| 2025Q4 | 977 | 8.1 |
| 2026Q1 | 648 | 4.49 |
| 2026Q2 | 359 | 4.66 |
Open-source momentum can seed the commercial layer around the projects teams adopt.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 303 | 1.78 |
| 2024Q4 | 237 | 1.34 |
| 2025Q1 | 554 | 2.21 |
| 2025Q2 | 314 | 1.97 |
| 2025Q3 | 674 | 2.47 |
| 2025Q4 | 268 | 2.22 |
| 2026Q1 | 464 | 3.21 |
| 2026Q2 | 196 | 2.55 |
Hiring, visa and layoff cycles can resize teams — per-seat budgets tend to follow.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 1491 | 8.75 |
| 2024Q4 | 2000 | 11.28 |
| 2025Q1 | 2604 | 10.41 |
| 2025Q2 | 1895 | 11.89 |
| 2025Q3 | 5195 | 19.06 |
| 2025Q4 | 2341 | 19.4 |
| 2026Q1 | 2544 | 17.62 |
| 2026Q2 | 1468 | 19.07 |
Breach pressure can push security into every buying decision.
This signal has no matching category in the page’s recruiting tech market map, so no supply percentile or gap is assigned.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 769 | 4.51 |
| 2024Q4 | 625 | 3.52 |
| 2025Q1 | 838 | 3.35 |
| 2025Q2 | 690 | 4.33 |
| 2025Q3 | 1343 | 4.93 |
| 2025Q4 | 612 | 5.07 |
| 2026Q1 | 545 | 3.78 |
| 2026Q2 | 397 | 5.16 |
As products expose more APIs, managing, testing and securing them can compound.
This signal has no matching category in the page’s recruiting tech market map, so no supply percentile or gap is assigned.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 100 | 0.59 |
| 2024Q4 | 95 | 0.54 |
| 2025Q1 | 235 | 0.94 |
| 2025Q2 | 133 | 0.83 |
| 2025Q3 | 127 | 0.47 |
| 2025Q4 | 122 | 1.01 |
| 2026Q1 | 154 | 1.07 |
| 2026Q2 | 88 | 1.14 |
When downtime makes news, reliability tooling can move up the buying list.
This signal has no matching category in the page’s recruiting tech market map, so no supply percentile or gap is assigned.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 227 | 1.33 |
| 2024Q4 | 122 | 0.69 |
| 2025Q1 | 122 | 0.49 |
| 2025Q2 | 141 | 0.88 |
| 2025Q3 | 113 | 0.41 |
| 2025Q4 | 228 | 1.89 |
| 2026Q1 | 240 | 1.66 |
| 2026Q2 | 157 | 2.04 |
Privacy rules can land as engineering requirements — consent, data handling and audit tooling follow.
This signal has no matching category in the page’s recruiting tech market map, so no supply percentile or gap is assigned.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 269 | 1.58 |
| 2024Q4 | 214 | 1.21 |
| 2025Q1 | 619 | 2.47 |
| 2025Q2 | 307 | 1.93 |
| 2025Q3 | 614 | 2.25 |
| 2025Q4 | 416 | 3.45 |
| 2026Q1 | 527 | 3.65 |
| 2026Q2 | 220 | 2.86 |
the United States recruiting tech coverage
IEEE Access
23 citations in the snapshot
SSRN Electronic Journal
14 citations in the snapshot
International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology
7 citations in the snapshot
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
6 citations in the snapshot
the United States coverage of this page's demand families
| Keyword | Recent articles | Prior articles | Share change |
|---|---|---|---|
| cyber laws | 118 | 50 | 190.9% |
| cloud backup solutions | 49 | 21 | 187.6% |
| arch linux | 51 | 25 | 151.4% |
| green data centers | 200 | 117 | 110.7% |
| os portability | 117 | 73 | 97.5% |
| cost-effective trademarks | 64 | 43 | 83.4% |
Share changes describe coverage in the stated comparison periods, not search demand or market size.
Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.
30.6% across the displayed hubs
41 companies hiring · $1.6B disclosed funding
Explore companies in New York City ↗28.0% across the displayed hubs
29 companies hiring · $4.6B disclosed funding
Explore companies in San Francisco ↗10.5% across the displayed hubs
9 companies hiring · $178.3M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Los Angeles ↗
7.5% across the displayed hubs
7 companies hiring · $239.1M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Chicago ↗
7.3% across the displayed hubs
9 companies hiring · $86.1M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Austin ↗
6.0% across the displayed hubs
7 companies hiring · $150.3M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Atlanta ↗
5.4% across the displayed hubs
7 companies hiring · $359.2M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Boston ↗4.7% across the displayed hubs
8 companies hiring · $29.5M disclosed funding
Explore companies in San Diego ↗Clear definitions for making better comparisons.
It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.
No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.
A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.
Company ecosystem snapshot: 30 August 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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