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CareerGenie
Techstars '24New York City, US · Founded 2023 · 7 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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CareerGenie is an AI-powered recruiting platform that helps early-stage startups and scale-ups define roles, source candidates, screen applicants, and shortlist candidates across 180+ countries. The platform serves both employers and job seekers, offering end-to-end hiring workflow automation while maintaining human decision-making.
Also known as CareerGenie
Founders & leadership
CareerGenie was founded in 2023 by Abhy Choumal and Ricardo Santos.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026CareerGenie is an AI-based recruiting platform covering sourcing, screening and shortlisting within a single hiring pipeline. Its central concept, described as "Talent DNA," builds a model of a company's past hiring decisions and team composition and uses it to reshape each candidate search, so that the same query returns different results for different employers. The company states it begins constructing this model by scanning a prospective customer's company and team before an initial call.
The product set includes signal-based sourcing, in which an engine monitors hiring signals across the web (for example promotions, open-to-work indicators or public activity) and surfaces candidates in the customer's dashboard before they apply; asynchronous AI interviews that candidates record on their own schedule and that the system scores and ranks; AI-suggested multichannel outreach for LinkedIn and email with replies synced back to the pipeline; and a browser extension for adding candidates or sending messages directly from LinkedIn. CareerGenie offers two-way synchronization with the Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever and Zoho Recruit applicant tracking systems, lists Workday and BambooHR as planned integrations, and provides an API for additional ATS and HR platforms.
Alongside self-serve software, CareerGenie offers a managed search service using the same Talent DNA engine, in which its team runs the search and delivers three to five vetted candidates within ten working days, each having completed an AI interview, with stated reasoning for each recommendation.
Business model
CareerGenie sells access to its recruiting software to employers, with a free account tier advertised as requiring no credit card and setup in under five minutes, alongside a published pricing page and a demo-led sales path. It also offers a fully managed search service in which CareerGenie runs the sourcing and screening process and delivers a shortlist to the customer.
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Market position
CareerGenie presents itself as a single platform spanning sourcing, screening, outreach and shortlisting that layers on top of existing applicant tracking systems rather than replacing them, positioning itself as a complement to Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever and Zoho Recruit deployments.
CareerGenie positions its company-specific Talent DNA model as the basis for differentiated results, arguing that identical searches should return different candidates for different employers. It also emphasizes signal-based sourcing that identifies candidates before they apply, and automated asynchronous AI interviews that run continuously rather than requiring recruiter scheduling.
Technology
The platform combines a "Talent DNA" model derived from a company's hiring decisions and team data with an engine that monitors hiring signals across the web to surface candidates before they apply. Asynchronous AI interviews are automatically scored and ranked to produce shortlists. Candidate data flows bidirectionally with external applicant tracking systems (Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, Zoho Recruit) and through a public API, with a browser extension extending capture and outreach to LinkedIn.
Go-to-market
The company markets through its website with two primary calls to action: booking a 30-minute demo tailored to the prospect's existing ATS stack, and creating a free account. A managed-service offering provides an alternative entry point for teams that prefer CareerGenie to run searches on their behalf. Integrations with widely used ATS products serve as a distribution and adoption channel.
Employers and in-house talent teams, including recruiting leads, heads of talent and VPs of People. Website testimonials reference a Series B SaaS company, a growth-stage fintech and a roughly 200-person technology company, and its example searches are framed around fintech, AI infrastructure and startup hiring profiles.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does CareerGenie do?
- CareerGenie is an AI recruiting platform that sources, screens and ranks candidates around a company-specific "Talent DNA" model.
- Who founded CareerGenie?
- CareerGenie was founded by Abhy Choumal, Ricardo Santos in 2023.
- Who are CareerGenie's investors?
- CareerGenie's investors include Techstars.
- Where is CareerGenie headquartered?
- CareerGenie is headquartered in New York City, US.