Weekday is a San Francisco-based recruitment startup that operates a crowdsourced reference network to help companies hire engineers. It invites software engineers to connect their social graph (LinkedIn and Contacts) and provides recruiters with a ready-made shortlist of referred talent. The product gamifies referrals and stores people's references, and offers a “Backchannel” feature that surfaces background references from former colleagues on every candidate. This approach aims to make hiring less about resumes and interviews and more about real-life experiences and capabilities. Weekday has worked with over 100 companies, specializing in seed and Series A startups, including Coinbase, Clipboard Health, AtoB, Daloopa, Zepto, and Round Finance, helping hire CTOs, Tech Leads, and Senior Software Engineers. Founded in 2021 and Y Combinator–backed, the company plans to use the $2.2M raise to expand operations and its business reach.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Aug 2023