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Juicebox

juicebox.ai

AI recruiting platform that helps teams search talent, manage recruiting workflows, and personalize candidate engagement.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-50
31 active roles
Jobs checked 4d ago
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Business
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Market
Cross Industry
Ecosystem
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Customers
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Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Applications
Business
Software Applications
Specialization
Not classified
Market
Cross Industry
Customers
Enterprises
Delivery models
Hosted Software
Revenue models
Subscription
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Series B
Reported funding amount
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About

Juicebox builds an AI recruiting platform spanning talent search, CRM, and automated candidate engagement for recruiting teams and employers, including startups and Fortune 500 companies. Its differentiation is combining human judgment with leading LLMs and dynamic multi-step sequences to source qualified talent and personalize outreach at scale.

Market

Juicebox competes in AI recruiting and talent-sourcing software, with a particular emphasis on outbound candidate discovery and engagement. It differentiates through natural-language search, rapid ranked shortlists, broad profile coverage, dynamic outreach sequencing, and autonomous recruiting agents; compared with competitors such as SeekOut and Gem, its positioning is more focused on fast list-building and execution than on technical-data depth or serving as a broader recruiting system of record.

Target Customers

Juicebox serves talent-acquisition teams across the company-size spectrum, from early-stage startups and growth companies to large enterprises and Fortune 500 organizations. Its primary users are recruiters, sourcers, recruiting leaders, and startup founders who need to discover and engage candidates more efficiently.

At a Glance

Problem

Recruiting teams often struggle to find qualified, passive candidates when the pipeline is empty, particularly for hard-to-fill roles. Traditional sourcing can require extensive manual searching across fragmented data sources, while recruiter-seat economics can be expensive; Juicebox positions its search as costing roughly one-tenth of LinkedIn Recruiter. Its primary use case is helping in-house recruiters, agency recruiters, sourcers, hiring managers, and founders rapidly identify hard-to-find talent and build a qualified shortlist.

Product / Service

Juicebox is an AI recruiting and candidate-sourcing platform centered on PeopleGPT, a natural-language people-search product. Users describe the type of person they need conversationally, and PeopleGPT searches more than 800 million profiles across over 30 data sources in seconds. The product is designed to reduce time-to-shortlist and make candidate discovery accessible without complex search syntax.

The platform supports recruiting workflows through integrations with 41 applicant-tracking systems and 21 CRMs, as well as fast CSV exports with or without contact information. It is delivered as web-based SaaS with a free entry point and demo-led options, enabling teams ranging from Fortune 500 companies to boutique recruiting agencies to source and engage talent at scale.

Market

Juicebox competes in AI recruiting software, specifically AI-powered candidate sourcing and people-search platforms. Its named competitors include SeekOut, hireEZ, and Fetcher; SeekOut is positioned as stronger on technical-data depth, while Juicebox emphasizes natural-language search, speed to a ranked shortlist, and transparent pricing. The broader category addresses passive-candidate discovery rather than relying only on applicants responding to job postings.

The company appears to be revenue-generating rather than pre-revenue. Company materials report more than $10 million in ARR, over 20% monthly growth, thousands of searches per day, and more than 5,000 customers, including teams at Ramp, Samsara, Cognition, leading AI labs, agencies, and Fortune 100 companies. The latest reported financing brought total capital raised to $116 million and valued Juicebox at $850 million, indicating substantial traction for an emerging AI SaaS company.

Founders & Leadership

David PaffenholzFounder
CEO & Co-Founder
Ishan GuptaFounder
Co-Founder and CTO
Simran DuggalVP of Sales

Funding History

2022-10
Seed / pre-seed$6M reported; Tracxn lists $500K

Y Combinator

2025-09
Series A$30M

Sequoia Capital

2026-03
Series B$80M

DST Global

Recent News

2026-10-06ma
Juicebox agrees to acquire Fetcher assets

Juicebox announced an agreement to acquire intellectual property and other assets from Fetcher, a talent-sourcing and recruiting-automation platform. Fetcher customers were offered the option to transition to Juicebox as Fetcher winds down its product and operations.

2026-09-04partnership
Juicebox joins ERE Recruiting Innovation Summit as Gold Sponsor

Juicebox was announced as a Gold Sponsor of the ERE Recruiting Innovation Summit, scheduled for November 9–11, 2026, in San Diego. ERE Media’s announcement listed Juicebox alongside the summit’s other sponsors.

2026-08-17other
Juicebox named Talent Acquisition Company of the Year

Juicebox announced on August 17, 2026 that it was selected as the winner of the “Talent Acquisition Company of the Year” award in the inaugural HR Tech Breakthrough Awards program. The program recognizes innovators across HR and workforce technology and received nominations from companies in more than 15 countries.

2026-05-07partnership
AI Outbound Sourcing with Ashby & Juicebox

Ashby featured Juicebox in a partnership session showing how Juicebox’s AI sourcing engine works alongside Ashby to help talent teams discover and engage candidates outside their existing pipeline.

2026-03-10funding
Juicebox Raises $80M Series B at an $850M Valuation

Juicebox announced an $80 million Series B round at an $850 million valuation, led by DST Global.

2026-01-28partnership
Top 8 Ashby Integrations to Streamline Recruiting (2026)

Juicebox highlighted its direct Ashby integration, which lets sourcers discover candidates, enrich profiles, and export shortlists to specific jobs.

2025-09-25partnership
Why We're Partnering with Juicebox: The Recruiting Platform Founders Are Obsessed With

Sequoia announced its partnership with Juicebox and described strong adoption, including use by thousands of recruiters and Sequoia’s own team, alongside growth to $10 million in scale and 2,500 customers.

Active Roles

31
London, UK/Sales/4d ago
London, UK/Customer Success Manager/4d ago
OnSite - London, UK/Sales/4d ago
London, UK/Marketing/6d ago
OnSite - San Francisco/Sales/17d ago
London, UK/Sales/17d ago
OnSite - San Francisco/Technical Account Manager/25d ago
OnSite - San Francisco/Operations/27d ago
London, UK/Marketing/40d ago
OnSite - San Francisco/Engineering/45d ago
OnSite - San Francisco/Marketing/52d ago
London, UK/Technical Account Manager/53d ago
OnSite - San Francisco/Operations/53d ago
Software Engineer$160k – $250k
OnSite - San Francisco/Engineering/79d ago
Social & Creators Lead$100k – $160k
OnSite - San Francisco/Marketing/79d ago
OnSite - San Francisco/Engineering/79d ago
Security Engineer$160k – $250k
OnSite - San Francisco/Engineering/79d ago
OnSite - San Francisco/Sales/79d ago
Product Manager$160k – $260k
OnSite - San Francisco/Product/79d ago
OnSite - San Francisco/Customer Success Manager/79d ago

Business Model

Juicebox monetizes through a subscription software model with a free trial and paid per-seat plans. Its pricing page lists paid plans starting at $99 per month for unlimited searches and a Starter plan at $119 per seat per month.

Products

AI-powered talent search and sourcingRecruiting CRMAI talent insightsOutbound outreach sequencesAI recruiting agents

Customers

CognitionRampQuoraPerplexity

Tech Stack

AI/ML talent-sourcing modelsNatural-language search and matchingLarge-scale profile and multi-source data aggregationAI recruiting agentsMulti-step outbound outreach sequencing

Competitors

SeekOut
hireEZ
Fetcher
Gem