• HireArt

  Participated · Seed · Sep 2013

  HireArt operates a platform that sources, screens and employs W2 contractors for employers, offering features like curated shortlists, interview scheduling and workforce management tools (pay changes, expense approvals, reports). The company began in 2012 as an assessment firm and pivoted in 2017 to both source and employ workers on clients' behalf. HireArt serves customers including Meta, Carta, Zoox and Via and targets a fragmented U.S. staffing market it estimates at roughly $500 billion. The startup has an 82-person headcount and plans to more than double that within the next year, using new capital for product development. Financially, HireArt previously raised $2M in 2017, grew 70% year-over-year after that raise and reached profitability with around 30 employees, but is not currently profitable and expects to reach profitability by the end of 2023. HireArt is a Y Combinator-backed recruiting platform that screens job applicants by having candidates complete work-sample tasks and optional video responses so employers can assess real skills rather than resumes. Employers can review curated applicant feeds themselves or outsource review to HireArt's small team of graders who score submissions using an internal rubric; higher-touch recruiting services are available under its full-service offering. Until today the company operated a contingency model charging a 10% success fee of the first-year salary, and it has launched a lower-priced $595/month tier that provides a curated feed and an optional account manager but does not include scheduling, salary negotiation or other full recruiting services. HireArt reports roughly 70,000 candidate applications and nearly 300 employer customers, including Airbnb, Cisco, eBay, Gap and Facebook. The business has been growing at about 20% month-over-month according to co-founder Nicholas Sedlet, and the lower-priced plan is intended to broaden adoption among companies that want curated candidates without full headhunting. The company competes with video-interview and recruiting services such as HireVue, VidCruiter, Interview Rocket and Take the Interview.

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