Ribbon

Ribbon is a voice artificial intelligence recruiter that conducts job screening interviews at scale. Founded in 2023 in Toronto by Arsham Ghahramani, an Amazon AI alum, and Dave Vu, a talent leader, the company raised more than eight million dollars in a round led by Radical Ventures in 2025. Its product, Recruit AI, replaces the initial phone screen with an adaptive voice agent that talks to candidates around the clock, so a role that once waited days for a recruiter to schedule a call can be screened in under five minutes.

The interview itself is the core of the product. Ribbon's agent holds a natural, adaptive conversation that responds to candidates in real time, picking up on nuance, asking relevant follow up questions, and even allowing do overs when nerves get in the way, which candidates rate highly and often mistake for a human. It runs in more than ten languages and captures both audio and video, with built in cheat detection to keep the process fair. Beyond screening, the agent actively sells the role, highlighting company benefits and culture, and lets the business customize the brand experience.

For the hiring team, Ribbon turns each conversation into a decision ready output. It scores and summarizes every interview, ranks candidates with data driven insights, and continuously analyzes results to reduce bias, so recruiters can filter a large pipeline quickly and spend their time on later stage candidates. A human recruiter still reviews the responses and makes the final call. The platform integrates with more than forty five applicant tracking systems, including Workday, Lever, Greenhouse, and BambooHR, so screening slots into an existing workflow without new silos or training.

Ribbon is built for high volume, high turnover hiring in industries like manufacturing, airports, quick service restaurants, and healthcare staffing, where the number of candidates far outstrips the interviews a human team can run. Companies including LAZ Parking, Fuze HR, and First Brands Group report cutting time to interview from around forty eight hours to under five minutes and shortening hiring timelines by thirty to forty percent. The founders also frame a longer ambition, turning a five minute conversation into a rich candidate profile and building a platform that helps anyone move between opportunities with less friction.