50 Best Recruiting Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent recruiting companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 52,355 companies tracked on Fsome.

52,355
Total Companies
$31.7B
Total Funding
$605K
Avg Funding
London
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Mercor
Mercor is an AI-based hiring platform that improves the recruitment process by m…
San Francisco $483.6M Series C 2025-10-27
2
Paradox
Paradox is an AI company that helps companies capture and screen candidates, imp…
Scottsdale 501 - 1K $253.3M Series C 2021-12-27
3
Deel
Deel offers a unified platform that supports payroll, HR, compliance, and workfo…
San Francisco 5K - 10K $1.3B Series E 2025-10-16
4
Findem
Findem is a talent-acquisition technology firm that offers an AI-driven platform…
Redwood City 101 - 250 $88.3M Debt Financing 2025-10-21
5
TrialBee
Trialbee is an independent software company dedicated to delivering solutions an…
Lund 11 - 50 $20.4M Series Unknown 2026-01-07
6
Incredible Health
Incredible Health is the largest AI company powering healthcare hiring, with 1.5…
San Francisco 101 - 250 $99.5M Series B 2022-08-17
7
Pebl
Pebl offers a global employment solution that simplifies how companies onboard, …
Denver 501 - 1K $500.0M Series B 2022-05-18
8
Gem
Gem is a recruiting platform that integrates with third-party applications such …
San Francisco 1K - 5K $148.0M Series C 2021-09-28
9
micro1
Micro1 offers an AI platform that converts human expertise into structured datas…
Palo Alto 101 - 250 $41.6M Series A 2025-09-12
10
Mentra
A neurodiversity-focused recruiting platform
Charlotte 11 - 50 $4.6M Seed 2023-09-05
11
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is a recruiting AI company that provides a hiring platform that …
San Francisco 501 - 1K $225.0M Series E 2021-07-20
12
Greenhouse Software
Greenhouse is a talent acquisition software company that offers its suite of too…
New York 501 - 1K $110.1M Series D 2018-07-12
13
Nodes Inc
AI decisioning infrastructure for enterprise hiring; deploy in your VPC, own you…
New York 11 - 50 $425K Pre Seed 2026-01-13
14
Dover
Dover is your one-stop shop for recruiting. Dover is a modern suite of tools and…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $22.8M Series A 2021-07-19
15
Signing Day Sports
Signing Day Sports develops a sports recruitment platform that revolutionizes th…
Scottsdale 11 - 50 $5.9M Post Ipo Equity 2026-01-13
16
Brix
Brix is an AI-based platform that offers online recruiting services and solution…
Costa Mesa 51 - 100 $14.0M Seed 2025-01-01
17
Phenom
Phenom is an HR technology company that uses AI to help businesses hire, develop…
Ambler 1K - 5K $161.4M Series D 2021-04-07
18
HeyMilo
HeyMilo is an AI-powered candidate screening platform that enables organizations…
New York 1 - 10 $6.0M Seed 2026-01-05
19
Grayscale
Grayscale is a unified employee engagement platform to hire, onboard, and retain…
Atlanta 11 - 50 $13.3M Series A 2022-09-27
20
GoTu
GoTu is a marketplace platform that connects licensed hygienists with dental off…
Miami 101 - 250 $52.6M Series A 2025-11-18
21
Karat
Karat develops an interviewing cloud platform to solve the shortage of software …
Seattle 251 - 500 $169.1M Series Unknown 2022-04-19
22
Formation
Formation is a remote fellowship for ambitious software engineers looking to lan…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $5.0M Series A 2023-03-31
23
Platzi
Platzi is an effective online education platform that offers classes on marketin…
San Francisco 101 - 250 $78.4M Series B 2021-12-06
24
Lever
Lever is a talent acquisition suite that provides talent leaders with the soluti…
San Francisco 501 - 1K $122.8M Private Equity 2022-01-05
25
Draup
AI-powered enterprise decision-making platform that provides sales & talent inte…
The Woodlands 101 - 250 $20.0M Series A 2022-03-21
26
ModernLoop
ModernLoop is a platform to automates and streamlines interview coordination to …
San Francisco 11 - 50 $12.1M Series A 2022-08-23
27
Fuel50
Fuel50 is the AI-powered Talent Marketplace that delivers internal talent mobili…
Laguna Niguel 51 - 100 $36.1M Series B 2021-04-08
28
Helio AI
Automating recruiting processes with AI and game-based psychometric tests, allow…
Delaware 11 - 50 $1.4M Seed 2025-11-25
29
Searchlight
A Predictive Talent Platform that improves hiring efficiency & Quality of Hire b…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $19.5M Series A 2021-12-20
30
Remote
Remote is an employment, payroll, and HR platform for modern, distributed busine…
San Francisco 1K - 5K $496.0M Series C 2022-04-05
31
WorkIndia
WorkIndia is a blue-collar recruitment portal offering employment opportunities …
Bengaluru 501 - 1K $30.6M Series B 2025-12-18
32
Beamery
Beamery provides an AI-based talent lifecycle management platform for workforce …
London 251 - 500 $223.0M Debt Financing 2024-10-29
33
Merlin
Merlin is an internet company that specializes in the fields of the marketplace,…
New York 51 - 100 $37.8M Series Unknown 2019-06-19
34
Censia
Censia is a talent intelligence company that leverages AI to provide skills data…
San Francisco 101 - 250 $81.5M Series B 2024-09-18
35
Ontop
Ontop is a HR tech company that offers remote hiring, placed payments and compli…
Miami 101 - 250 $34.7M Series A 2022-12-31
36
Paraform
Paraform connects sales teams with recruiters to streamline hiring processes.
San Francisco 11 - 50 $65.0M Series B 2026-03-18
37
Swing Education
Swing Education develops a substitute teaching platform to provide substitute te…
San Mateo 501 - 1K $80.8M Debt Financing 2025-07-15
38
SeekOut
Grow the talent you have. Find the talent you need.
Bellevue 101 - 250 $188.6M Series C 2022-01-12
39
Built In
Built In is a global network of online communities for tech companies and startu…
Chicago 101 - 250 $29.9M Series C 2019-07-16
40
ClearCompany
Unified Talent Management Software (SaaS) built to maximize employee talent thro…
San Francisco 251 - 500 $63.5M Series Unknown 2018-08-15
41
Flexa
Flexa is a careers platform designed to help people and companies find their per…
London 11 - 50 $5.0M Seed 2024-08-01
42
Handshake
Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates f…
San Francisco 501 - 1K $434.0M Series F 2022-01-19
43
Mappa.ai
Use Mappa to hire thoroughly vetted Latin American rockstars in just 48 hours.
Montevideo 1 - 10 $3.4M Seed 2025-09-09
44
Wedge
Competitive Wedge offers a one-way recorded video interview built for the demand…
Grand Rapids 11 - 50 $8.7M Series Unknown 2026-01-08
45
Eightfold AI
Eightfold AI provides a complete AI platform for talent management to help compa…
Santa Clara 501 - 1K $396.8M Series E 2021-06-10
46
Scorability
Scorability is a developer of a sports platform that matches athletes with colle…
Austin 11 - 50 $51.0M Series Unknown 2025-09-30
47
Workiz
Workiz is the leading platform for field service teams, trusted by over 110,000 …
San Diego 101 - 250 $60.2M Series C 2021-11-17
48
Flo Recruit
Flo Recruit connects the legal talent market with our suite of legal recruiting …
Austin 11 - 50 $19.8M Series A 2025-05-20
49
Graphite
Graphite is a technology platform for on-demand business expertise.
San Francisco 51 - 100 $18.8M Series A 2021-08-12
50
Engin Sciences
Engin Sciences develops AI-Driven HR software that gives companies access to a v…
New York 11 - 50 $8.9M Series Unknown 2026-02-02