Searchlight helps companies make better hires by creating a source of truth through professional references.
It's software standardizes the reference check process into a simple workflow so that references can finally be done right, faster and earlier.
It's software standardizes the reference check process into a simple workflow so that references can finally be done right, faster and earlier.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $19.5M
Founded date: 2018
Investors 5
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | PeopleTech... | peopletech... |
| - | Soma Capit... | somacap.co... |
| - | Operator C... | operatorco... |
| 14.01.2022 | Y Combinat... | ycombinato... |
| - | Accel Part... | accel.com |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 24.11.2019 | Seed | $2.5M | - |
| - | Series A | $17M | - |
Mentions in press and media 7
| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.04.2024 | Multiverse, the apprenticeship unicorn, acquires Searchlight to put a focus on AI | Multiverse, the U.K. unicorn that builds apprenticeship programs for people to learn technology skills while on the job, has made an acquisition as it aims to skill up itself. The company has bought Searchlight, a startup that builds AI-bas... |
| 23.12.2021 | US-based talent intelligence platform Searchlight secures US$ 17M in Series A | Searchlight, a San Francisco-based talent intelligence startup providing companies with the resources to assess and optimize the quality of talent acquisition, has raised US$ 17 million in a Series A funding round led by Founders Fund on 20... |
| 20.12.2021 | Searchlight puts new capital to work with expanded talent intelligence tools | Someone’s education and work history can be similar to other resumes in a pile, but Searchlight aims to improve how companies measure a person’s soft skills to provide not only a differentiator, but also a better indication of how well that... |
| 20.12.2021 | Searchlight Raises $17 Million Series A Round, Launches Talent Intelligence Platform to Help Companies Improve Quality of Hire With Behavioral Data and Prescriptive Analytics | Searchlight, a talent intelligence platform powered by hard data that measures the soft skills that can make or break quality of hire, announced that it has closed a Series A funding round of $17 million led by Founders Fund with participat... |
| 24.11.2019 | Searchlight Raises $2.5M Seed Funding Round | Searchlight, a San Francisco, CA-based hiring software startup, raised a $2.5m seed funding round. The round was led by Accel with participation from Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Soma Capital and angels Jason Boehmig, Mathilde Collin, Nick ... |
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| - | Talent Intelligence Platform Company Searchlight Raises $17 Million | Searchlight — a talent intelligence platform powered by hard data that measure the soft skills that can make or break the quality of hire — announced that it has closed a Series A funding round of $17 million. These are the details. Searchl... |