Paraform

Paraform, based in San Francisco, is an agentic hiring platform where expert human recruiters and custom AI agents work together to fill a company's most important roles. Founded in 2022 by co founders John Kim and Jeffrey Li, who first recruited each other and concluded the industry was broken, it grew to eight figures in annual recurring revenue and raised a Series B in March 2026 led by Scale Venture Partners, bringing total funding to sixty five million dollars, with backing from Felicis, A star, and founders from Palantir, Canva, Stripe, and Uber. More than one thousand companies, including Palantir, Rippling, Decagon, and Cognition, use it to hire across engineering, go to market, finance, and legal.

Its first product is an AI powered recruiter marketplace. A company posts a role and is matched with a few specialized recruiters who have a proven track record filling similar positions, while custom AI agents built for that company surface the best candidates, get hiring managers interested, and handle the busywork, delivering interview ready candidates in roughly ten to twelve days. The agents learn from a company's feedback, preferences, and culture, and Paraform is building a proprietary talent graph that, in its words, compounds intelligence with every hire so matches get sharper over time. Recruiters on the platform get a free all in one toolkit with sourcing, candidate matching, a CRM, a notetaker, and a scheduler, plus back office support, integrations to ATS, email, and calendar, and a dedicated talent strategist who actively manages the search. Real time dashboards, quality gates, and submission limits keep companies in control of the pipeline.

Paraform pairs automation with human judgment by design, keeping recruiters and hiring teams in the loop on every decision, and it emphasizes fairness by auditing model outputs and keeping people accountable for hiring choices. It runs as a cloud marketplace without a documented on premise option, uses its own matching models rather than a choice of provider, and acts through recruiting integrations rather than driving a browser. For a company hiring hard to fill roles that wants specialized recruiters and AI agents working together, paying on outcomes rather than retainers, Paraform is a strong and differentiated fit; a team wanting a self serve, model flexible agent platform, or a pure software only sourcing tool, will find it a recruiter marketplace at its core.