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Sapia

216 Lower Heidelberg Rd, Ivanhoe East, Victoria, 3079, Australia

Overview

Sapia.ai is a Melbourne, Australia-based provider of an AI solution delivering diversity and inclusion in hiring. Founded by CEO Barb Hyman, the company offers a platform to help companies engage talent at scale. Its core technology centers on a blind, untimed and asynchronous chat interview designed to transform the speed and quality of hire while removing bias from the hiring process. The company raised $17M in a Series A round and plans to use the funds to continue overseas expansion. Management intends to make the product available in multiple languages as part of that expansion. PredictiveHire is a Melbourne-based recruitment automation company that automates candidate screening with an AI interview bot called Phai. Phai asks five text-message questions and can indicate whether a candidate is right for a job immediately, with the company saying the bot "interviews" a candidate every 30 seconds. PredictiveHire has conducted more than 1.2 million candidate interviews and built a dataset of 500,000-plus million words to analyze the contextual meaning of written interview responses. The startup counts customers including Qantas, AfterPay, Telefonica, and Woolworths. In March 2022 the company raised $7.0M in a pre-Series A round. PredictiveHire operates in 47 countries and will use the funds to ramp up global plans with a big focus on the US market.

Total raised
$24M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Series A
Latest activity
Nov 2022

Industries

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Human Resources
  • Machine Learning
  • Recruiting
  • Software
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Recent funding

  1. Series A

    Nov 2022

    $17M

  2. Series A

    Mar 2022

    $7M

Team

  • Barbara Hyman

    Chief executive officer

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  • Jonathan Nicolson

    Co-founder and head of channel partnerships

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  • Paul Burley

    Co-founder and chief revenue officer

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  • Ivan Vysotskiy

    Head of technology

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