Textio offers a connected language/augmented-writing platform that suggests words and phrasing to improve hiring copy and other business communications. Its core product has focused on job listings and candidate emails, with customers including Johnson & Johnson, Slack, and NASA. CEO Kieran Snyder says the company sees increased demand as remote work makes writing a more critical mode of communication. Textio is signaling ambitions to expand beyond HR use cases and has not ruled out consumer-facing products while remaining focused on organizational language and culture. The company was launched in 2014 by Snyder and co-founder Jensen Harris after they worked on productivity tools at Microsoft. Recent SEC filings and reporting indicate new funding activity as the company pursues broader market expansion. Textio develops an augmented writing platform that leverages a proprietary data set and predictive engine to show writers how audiences will respond and why. Its first application helps companies write more effective job postings. The company sells annual subscriptions and counts many Fortune 500 customers, including Johnson & Johnson and Cisco. Textio plans to use the new funding to bring its predictive engine to other forms of business writing. Founded in Seattle in 2014, the company has raised $29.5M to date. The platform aims to enable performance improvements before documents are published by guiding writers in real time. Textio provides an artificial intelligence platform that analyzes business documents as they’re being written to forecast and improve their performance. The company’s first product, Textio Talent, optimizes job listings, recruiting email and other talent content. Clients include Twitter, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, Broadridge Financial, MLB.com and others worldwide. Founded in 2014 by Kieran Snyder (CEO) and Jensen Harris (CTO), Textio is headquartered in Seattle, WA. The company says it will use the funds to build its customer and technology teams and to extend the platform. No operating metrics were disclosed in the article. Textio offers a software service that analyzes job descriptions, performance reviews and other internal documents to surface language insights and predict whether text will produce desired outcomes. The product is described as an "SEO for internal business documents," exposed as a service rather than a consulting offering. The company is targeting recruiters initially, aiming to improve job descriptions and candidate targeting. Textio was formed after CEO Kieran Snyder researched gender bias in performance reviews; Snyder previously worked at Amazon and Microsoft’s Bing unit, and CTO Jensen Harris spent 16 years at Microsoft. The founders emphasize high user experience standards and document security as core elements of their offering. Financially, Textio closed a $1.5 million funding round; the founders declined to provide further details on the investors or how the funds will be used. One of Textio’s early demonstration projects analyzes Glassdoor text, correlating job descriptions with company ratings to show how descriptions can affect hiring outcomes.

Total raised

$37M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Mar 2020