SeekOut

SeekOut is an AI talent acquisition platform that combines a self-serve recruiting product (SeekOut Recruit) with a fully managed, human-supervised agentic recruiting service (SeekOut Spot). It is built for talent acquisition teams that need to find qualified candidates faster, improve sourcing coverage beyond traditional keyword search, and reduce repetitive recruiter work across search, outreach, screening, and coordination. SeekOut Recruit is positioned as an AI search platform that lets recruiters search across multiple talent pools in one place, including "1B+ external profiles" (indexing over 800 million profiles across GitHub, Stack Overflow, and LinkedIn), an organization's ATS, and internal employees or alumni. The site describes AI-assisted search and semantic matching that goes beyond keywords (e.g., surfacing signals like patents, GitHub contributions, and notable achievements). Recruit also promotes productivity tooling such as 30+ smart filters, verified contact details, and automated personalized outreach. SeekOut Spot is positioned as a managed recruiting service that pairs AI agents with experienced human recruiters. Instead of only providing software, Spot runs the front end of the funnel for a role: sourcing, outreach, and vetting. SeekOut states customers receive a curated slate of qualified, interested candidates based on a custom rubric, with speed-oriented outcomes (e.g., screened candidates delivered in defined timeframe). Founded in 2017 in Bellevue, Washington by Anoop Gupta (former Bill Gates' technical advisor at Microsoft), Aravind Bala, Vikas Manocha, and John Tippett, SeekOut raised $186-189M in total funding including $115M Series C in January 2022 led by Tiger Global Management at a $1.2B valuation. The company serves enterprise customers including Uber, Cisco, Pfizer, and Microsoft with 250-450 employees. SeekOut specializes in passive candidate sourcing, diversity hiring, and internal mobility with features like Diversity Power Filters & Analytics, SeekOut Grow (internal mobility and career development), Talent 360 (unified view of external and internal talent), and predictive 'Likely to Move' algorithms. The platform achieved unicorn status and is recognized for superior technical sourcing capabilities. From a commercial standpoint, SeekOut sells Recruit as annual software plans with a minimum one-year commitment (3-seat minimum), while Spot is sold as packs of candidate slates with no annual commitment. Integrations are positioned as part of the package with verified partnerships including Greenhouse (official Harvest API partner), Lever (bi-directional Rediscovery integration), Workday (certified partner), iCIMS, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle Recruiting Cloud, SmartRecruiters, Bullhorn, and Ashby. SeekOut publishes security posture information, including encryption in transit and at rest, SAML-based SSO support, SOC 2 Type II compliance (achieved 2023), and ISO/IEC 42001 and 23894 (AI-specific standards). Trial terms define an explicit seven-day trial period. Overall, SeekOut is best suited for enterprise teams that want a combination of AI-powered sourcing/search and optional managed recruiting capacity for roles that need fast pipeline generation.