HiringBranch builds a Soft Skills AI™ that measures soft skills through open-ended conversational voice and chat assessments to automate what was traditionally evaluated in interviews. Its platform aims to reduce interview time by over 80% and achieve mis-hire rates as low as 1%, and is used by Fortune 1000s and contact centers including Bell Canada and Infosys. The company plans to use new financing to expand its market reach and scale its soft-skills assessment offering. HiringBranch was founded by Patricia Macleod and Stéphane Rivard and is headquartered in Canada. The company has been recognized with a Lighthouse HR Tech Award for Best Innovative or Emerging Tech Solution. Recent financings include a $5M Series A to scale the Soft Skills AI™ and the newly announced growth capital facility. HiringBranch builds a native AI Soft Skill AI™ that measures soft skills from open-ended conversations, using tailored voice and chat assessments rather than multiple-choice tests. Its platform is used by Fortune 1000s and contact centers (including Bell Canada) to reduce interview time by over 80% and achieve mis-hire rates as low as 1%. The company reported 330% customer growth over the past two years and cites a study showing its proprietary dataset measures soft skills at 98% accuracy versus 64% for the next best public LLM. HiringBranch emphasizes fairness and diversity, positioning its technology as a way to reduce bias in hiring and replace traditional interviews in high-volume recruiting. The company plans to use the new funding to accelerate market penetration through strategic integration partnerships and sales initiatives across North and Latin America, Asia, and the UK. HiringBranch was founded by Patricia Macleod and Stephane Rivard and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada. HiringBranch provides an assessment and training AI solution for global human resource teams focused on hiring and retaining customer-facing talent. Its platform offers volume hiring assessments that evaluate candidates beyond language and correlate employee performance to soft-skill assessments. The company serves large and medium customers including Bell Canada, Infosys, Carelon and Fortune 50 online retailers across retail, sales, financial and technology industries. Led by CEO Stephane Rivard and Patricia MacLeod, HiringBranch has a team of 20 people and is based in Vancouver, Canada. The company raised $2.5M in non-dilutive funding and intends to use the funds to accelerate growth while continuing to expand its AI capabilities. The investment is aimed at supporting scaling and further product development for volume hiring use cases.

Total raised

$9M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Apr 2025