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Ashby

ashbyhq.com

Ashby provides all-in-one recruiting software combining ATS, CRM, scheduling, and analytics for ambitious hiring teams.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees201-1000
Funding$128M
62 active roles
Profile 8mo agoJobs checked 3d ago
Specialization
Not classified
Business
Software Applications
Market
Cross Industry
Ecosystem
Applications
Customers
Enterprisesand 1 more customers values
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More details
Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Applications
Business
Software Applications
Specialization
Not classified
Market
Cross Industry
Customers
Enterprises, Small Businesses
Delivery models
Hosted Software
Revenue models
Subscription, Usage Based
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Series D
Reported funding amount
$50M-$200M

About

Ashby builds all-in-one recruiting software that combines an applicant tracking system, CRM, scheduling, and analytics for startups, growth companies, and enterprises. Its differentiation is a unified, enterprise-grade hiring workflow with integrated data and analytics rather than a collection of disconnected recruiting tools.

Market

Ashby competes in talent-acquisition and recruiting software, positioning itself as an all-in-one platform for the full hiring workflow rather than a standalone ATS. Its differentiation is the integration of ATS, CRM and sourcing, scheduling, and analytics on shared candidate data, with AI embedded across the workflow and an MCP server that connects tools such as Claude and ChatGPT to recruiting data.

Target Customers

Ashby targets talent-acquisition and recruiting teams at ambitious companies ranging from startups with 1–100 employees to growth-stage organizations with 101–1,000 employees and enterprises with 1,000+ employees. Likely buyers and users include recruiting leaders, talent-acquisition teams, and HR organizations seeking an integrated system for their hiring workflow.

At a Glance

Problem

Ashby addresses the operational complexity of hiring as companies scale. Recruiting teams must coordinate sourcing, applicant tracking, interviews, structured evaluation, scheduling, and performance reporting, yet fragmented tools can create handoffs, excess clicks, and limited visibility. The resulting pain is primarily speed and execution: scaling companies need a fast, efficient, end-to-end process to support growth targets and make better-informed hiring decisions. The killer use case is giving an ambitious hiring organization one coordinated workflow instead of managing recruiting across disconnected systems. The available research does not disclose pricing or quantified cost savings, but it clearly positions efficiency, visibility, and quality-oriented execution as the economic rationale.

Product / Service

Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting software platform that combines applicant tracking, CRM and sourcing, interview scheduling, and recruiting analytics, with AI embedded across the workflow. Its feature set is designed to support structured hiring, automate repetitive work while retaining human judgment, reduce clicks, provide instant visibility, and enable custom reporting. The platform is delivered as an integrated recruiting system for startups, growth companies, and enterprises, with integrations and API documentation supporting connections to other tools when needed.

Market

Ashby competes in recruiting software and the broader HR technology market, particularly the ATS, recruiting CRM and sourcing, scheduling, and recruiting analytics categories. Its integrated positioning makes it an alternative to assembling multiple point solutions or relying on a less unified recruiting suite. The research identifies the category and adjacent product areas but does not name specific direct competitors, so individual competitor comparisons cannot be established from the available evidence.

Ashby is clearly post-revenue and has demonstrated substantial traction. Founded in 2018, the company announced a $50 million Series D in July 2025; its company blog reported growth from 1,300 to more than 2,700 customers and 135% year-over-year revenue growth. It also cites customers including Snowflake, Reddit, Notion, Shopify, Zapier, and others, while its talent-trends analysis covered 54 million applications and 93,000 jobs across customers, indicating meaningful operating scale.

Founders & Leadership

Benjamin EnczFounder
Co-founder & CEO
Abhik PramanikFounder
Co-founder & VP of Engineering
Mike ClapsonVP of Sales
Harriet JohnstonVP of Marketing
Kelsey PetersonVP of Customer Success
Shane GallaherVP of Finance

Funding History

2019-01
Accelerator/Incubator$125K
2020-08
Series A$10M
2022-09
Series B$21.5M

F-Prime Capital

2023-08
Series B (Tracxn-listed)≈$26.5M (inferred)
2024-06
Series C$30M

Lachy Groom

2025-07
Series D$50M

Alkeon Capital (Mark McLaughlin), Lachy Groom

Recent News

2026-09-09product_launch
Ashby launches WhatsApp messaging for candidate communication

Ashby announced the launch of WhatsApp messaging for candidate communication on September 9, 2026. The feature adds WhatsApp as a second messaging channel alongside SMS, supporting recruiter conversations, templates, reminders, and booking confirmations; it began rolling out to Ashby customers immediately.

2026-08-27product_launch
Ashby updates calendar display for unavailable interview time

Ashby announced a UI update that displays unavailable time outside an interviewer's meeting hours with a striped background pattern. The change is intended to make interviewer calendar availability easier to scan and speed up manual scheduling.

2026-05-07other
New Data from Ashby Reveals Surge in Applications, Rising Selectivity, and Shifting Recruiter Workloads

Ashby published analysis of more than 100 million applications and 200,000 jobs, highlighting increased application volume, rising selectivity, and changing recruiter workloads.

2026-02-05product_launch
AI-Powered Report Interpretations for Clear, Actionable Insights

Ashby introduced AI Report Interpretations, giving users one-click plain-language summaries and key insights for reports in Ashby.

2025-11-26partnership
Integrating Guide with Ashby

Guide announced an Ashby integration intended to provide a more seamless scheduling and candidate experience.

2025-09-25product_launch
Introducing AI Notetaker in Ashby for Faster, More Confident Hiring Decisions

Ashby introduced AI Notetaker, built into the platform to record, transcribe, and summarize interviews while providing AI-powered assistance for hiring decisions.

Active Roles

62
Remote - Germany; Stuttgart; Berlin/Sales/31d ago
Remote - Remote - US; Remote - Canada/Product/37d ago
Remote - Remote - US/Implementation Engineer/40d ago
Remote - Remote - US/Solutions Engineer/41d ago
Remote - Remote - US; Remote - Canada/Operations/51d ago
Remote - Remote - US/Marketing/54d ago
Remote - Remote - US/HR & Recruiting/62d ago
Remote - Australia; Singapore; South Korea; Philippines; Japan/Operations/66d ago
Head of Customer EducationRemote$170k – $240k
Remote - Remote - US/Customer Success Manager/79d ago
Remote - Remote - US; Remote - European Union; Remote - Canada; Ireland/Operations/100d ago
Remote - Remote - US; Remote - Canada/Sales Engineer/106d ago
Remote - Remote - US; Remote - Canada/Sales Engineer/107d ago
Engagement Manager - AmericasRemote$155k – $220k
Remote - Remote - US; Remote - Canada/Professional Services/124d ago
Design Engineer - UKRemote123k – 149k
Remote - United Kingdom; Manchester; Oxford; London; Cambridge/Engineering/127d ago
Design Engineer - EURemote119k – 145k
Remote - Portugal; Spain; Italy; Switzerland; Croatia; Ireland; Stockholm; Romania; Barcelona; Berlin; Sweden; Estonia/Engineering/127d ago
Design Engineer - CanadaRemote210k – 248k
Remote - Remote - Canada; Montreal; Vancouver; Toronto/Engineering/127d ago
Design Engineer - AmericasRemote$210k – $250k
Remote - Remote - US; Austin; Los Angeles; Portland; Boston; Seattle; New York; San Francisco; Denver; Chicago/Engineering/127d ago
Remote - United Kingdom; Belgium; Germany; Switzerland; Ireland; Austria; Spain; Stuttgart; Berlin/Sales/130d ago
Remote - Remote - US; Austin; Los Angeles; Salt Lake City; Remote - Canada; San Francisco/Sales/136d ago
Remote - Australia; New Zealand; Singapore; South Korea; Japan/Technical Account Manager/137d ago

Business Model

Ashby monetizes through paid recruiting and analytics plans priced according to company size, usage, and commitment. Its entry offering is listed at $400 per month with a 10% annual-commitment discount; growth and enterprise plans are quote-based, while analytics for an existing ATS is usage-priced.

Products

All-in-one recruiting platformApplicant Tracking System (ATS)Candidate Relationship Management and SourcingInterview SchedulingRecruiting AnalyticsAI recruiting features and integrations

Customers

AlturaTactoWorldlyNangoHackerOnePostHogCalmMonte CarloJanuary

Tech Stack

Node.jsNext.jsJavaScriptHTML5CSS3GraphQLTypeScriptReactLodashLarge language models (LLMs)Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Competitors

Greenhouse
Lever
Workable
SmartRecruiters
Workday Recruiting
Teamtailor

Key Investors

Elad Gil, Lachy Groom, F-Prime Capital, Gaingels, Harmony Venture Partners