Helio AI

Helio AI is an AI-powered end-to-end recruiting platform designed to automate high-volume and frontline hiring workflows, particularly for retail, hospitality, and manufacturing sectors. Founded in 2023 in Tbilisi, Georgia and backed by $1.4M in funding (most recently $1M seed round led by SABAH.fund in November 2025), the platform combines a full applicant tracking system with AI resume screening and gamified psychometric assessments. Helio's core innovation is a 10-minute situational game-based personality test that evaluates soft skills, personality traits, and cultural fit alongside traditional experience signals. The platform enables recruiters to create and publish job postings across multiple channels, collect resumes centrally, and use AI to automatically screen and score candidates. Helio emphasizes multilingual support, offering its AI recruiting agent in local languages including English and Georgian. The system includes automated candidate communication via email, SMS, WhatsApp, and Telegram, real-time KPI tracking and analytics, customizable candidate stage management, and collaborative hiring team workflows. Helio positions itself as requiring no integrations for quick deployment, targeting teams that need to process high application volumes efficiently. The platform claims to reduce recruiter workload by 60%, speed hiring by 3X, and cut recruiting budgets in half. Having screened over 300,000 applications for 300+ international brands across six countries, Helio focuses on improving both hiring efficiency and reducing unconscious bias through structured, data-driven evaluation. The company received EU Horizon Europe grant funding and participated in the 500 Global (500 Eurasia) accelerator program.