HiringCafe Raises $6.8M and Launches AI Talent Agent to Help Candidates Find the Perfect Role Across Millions of Jobs

HiringCafe, an agentic job discovery platform, today announced $6.8 million in pre-seed funding led by Spark Capital, along with Nonfiction Capital, Silicon Gardens, and angel investors from ZipRecruiter and Indeed. The company is also launching its AI Talent Agent, allowing anyone to create AI agents to search across millions of jobs on their behalf. Try now at: https://hiringcafe.com/ai-search.

Jobseekers’ Problem: Millions of Applicants Fighting for a Fraction of Roles

For years, the job search process has been dominated by legacy platforms that primarily surface sponsored jobs and listings from large enterprises. Estimates suggest these traditional boards only host about 20% of total open roles, resulting in millions of job seekers competing aggressively for a tiny fraction of the actual job market. Legacy job boards also rely on shallow keyword matching, driving frustrated job seekers to use automated tools to mass-apply to irrelevant roles. Overwhelmed by this flood of unqualified applicants, many employers now either auto-reject candidates or hide their listings entirely, creating a fractured hidden job market.

“A few weeks ago I learned that my position is being eliminated and immediately went to HiringCafe. Today, I accepted an offer of employment with a new company! With my whole heart, THANK YOU! You guys are doing something amazing, and every chance I get, I tell people who are job searching to check out HiringCafe,” said Karen Joyce, a user of Hiring Cafe.

HiringCafe’s Solution: A Real-Time Search Engine and AI Talent Agent

HiringCafe is fundamentally changing the landscape by building an exhaustive search engine for jobs, rather than a traditional job board. By utilizing internet-wide search algorithms and AI agents, HiringCafe bypasses aggregators and directly indexes career pages of millions of companies in real-time. As of publishing, HiringCafe has 5M+ jobs listed, up to 400% more than the nation’s most popular job boards. To make their search engine more functional, Hiring Cafe is today launching its AI talent agent to help users navigate this massive index.

Key features include:

• Always-On 24/7: Eliminates the daily grind of refreshing job boards by constantly scouting a real-time index of 5.7 million open roles to flag new opportunities the moment they go live.
  
  
• Intelligent Resume Matching: Users upload a resume and the AI will instantly parse their experience and skills to automatically recommend perfectly matched positions.
  
  
• Ghost Job Eradication: The system aggressively filters out ghost listings, ensuring candidates only spend their time reviewing legitimate, actively hiring roles.
  
  
• 100% Free for Job Seekers: Every user gets full access to this personalized AI talent agent without ever hitting a paywall or subscription fee.
  
  

“We realized that the modern job hunt is fundamentally broken because legacy platforms operate on an advertising model, not a true search model. They only show you the 20% of jobs that companies pay to promote, which creates hyper-competition and widespread burnout,” said Hamed Nilforoshan, co-founder of HiringCafe. “By using AI to index the entire long tail of the job market, we are finally bringing the other 80% of jobs out of the dark and leveling the playing field for everyday job seekers.”

Born from a Viral Side Project to Help Jobseekers

HiringCafe was born out of a viral side-project intended to help others. In 2022, co-founder Ali Mir quit his job and began building an HR startup. When friends were laid off from major tech companies, Ali built a simple spreadsheet of 10,000 hard-to-find startup jobs to help them out. The list and subsequent versions went repeatedly viral on social media, gaining millions of views, and demonstrating the need for better job boards. Co-founder Hamed Nilforoshan was pursuing a PhD at Stanford when he saw the immense real-world impact of the tool and joined shortly after. Together they have grown HiringCafe entirely via word-of-mouth and a fiercely dedicated Reddit community to over 2 million monthly active users.

“Ali and Hamed have the hallmark of great founders: a simple vision that seems obvious the moment they say it,” said Fraser Kelton, General Partner at Spark Capital. “HiringCafe is building the absolute best product for people looking for a job, not for people advertising jobs. Their growth so far, without any marketing spend, is a testament to how much people want a product genuinely focused on helping them find one.”

Learn more at https://hiringcafe.com/.

About HiringCafe

HiringCafe is the world’s most expansive and effective AI-powered job search platform. Built to solve the long tail problem of the modern job hunt, HiringCafe uses proprietary scraping technology and AI agents to index millions of hidden jobs directly from company career pages. The company is backed by Spark Capital, Nonfiction Capital, Silicon Gardens and leading angels. For more information, or to meet your new AI Talent Agent, visit https://hiring.cafe/.

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