Founded in 2015 by Tigran Sloyan, Aram Shatakhtsyan and Sophia Baik, CodeSignal offers a self-driving interview platform that measures developer skills regardless of background. The company describes its assessments as a "flight simulator for developers," returning scores and highlighted strengths. It recently launched an Integrated Development Environment enabling candidates to interact with code, files and a terminal and to preview their application, while employers can assign identical coding tasks tied to open roles. CodeSignal has grown revenue 3.5x year-over-year and lists customers including Brex, Databricks, Facebook, Instacart, Robinhood, Upwork and Zoom. Management says it has not yet used proceeds from its prior $25M Series B and plans to use new funding to add platform features, triple headcount in the coming months, and expand into additional skills-assessment use cases. CodeSignal, founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, is a technical assessment platform that automates skill-based screening and enables structured live interviews. Its Certified Coding Assessments provide objective measures of candidate qualifications and let companies set custom thresholds. The platform offers comprehensive testing options for different teams and roles and includes safeguards against cheating. CodeSignal says it will use new funding to rapidly expand its go-to-market team and to partner with key players in the technical hiring industry. The company is led by CEO and founder Tigran Sloyan. The articles do not disclose revenue or user metrics. CodeFights combines coding challenges with a recruiting platform to match developers to employers based on demonstrated skills. Its product includes company-trained "company bots" that developers can compete against, which has driven word-of-mouth growth. Recruiters on the platform can only contact developers who have signaled they are open to new opportunities, aiming to protect the user experience. The company competes with HackerRank and emphasizes opening job opportunities to developers who lack top-school pedigrees but have strong skills. CEO and founder Tigran Sloyan says the user base has grown 10x since the company’s $2.4M seed round last April. CodeFights plans to use new funding to scale engineering, operations and sales teams and to build new educational tools similar to Duolingo for developers. CodeFights operates a real-time, social platform where developers compete in "code battles"—short debugging and programming challenges that scale in difficulty and award levels and badges. The site, live for roughly six months, supports JavaScript, Java, C++ and Python and currently features over 1,500 challenges. It has attracted about 70,000 users who have solved 1.5 million challenges and the service has been growing 30–40% month-over-month. Gameplay lets users race the clock or face off against other players, with plans to introduce skill-based matching as the user base grows. The company raised $2.4M in seed funding and intends to use the capital to expand content, add new challenge types (for example database or CSS problems), broaden appeal to beginners, and grow the team. The founders are Tigran Sloyan, Aram Shatakhtsyan and Felix Desroches, and the startup is actively hiring from its community.

Total raised

$87M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Sep 2021