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Fetcher

New York, US · Founded 2016 · 135 employees on LinkedIn · 6 known investors

Fetcher provides automated sourcing and outreach software to help companies hire talent across engineering, go-to-market, and executive roles. The platform uses personalized, AI-driven candidate sourcing to enhance recruitment efficiency.

Also known as fetcher.ai

Founders & leadership

SA
Santi AimettaDirector of Data and Analytics & Co-FounderNamed as a founding engineering/data leader. No verified LinkedIn URL found.
ABAndres Blank
Andres BlankinCo-founder & CEO2015–2026Previously co-founded Pixable (sold to Singtel). Led Fetcher from its Caliber/Scout origins through Series B; posted in 2026 that he had stepped away as CEO.
CCChris Calmeyn
Chris CalmeyninCo-Founder, CEONamed CPO and co-founder on Fetcher’s about page; later LinkedIn posts describe him as Co-Founder, CEO.
GJ
Genevieve JurvetsonCo-Founder (early)Quoted as a co-founder in 2019 seed coverage. Not listed on the current Fetcher about page.
HT
HR Tech SaaS Santi AimettaDirector of Data and Analytics & Co-Founder
JC
Javier CastiarenaCo-Founder / EngineeringNamed by TechCrunch as a founding engineering director alongside Santi Aimetta. No verified LinkedIn URL found.
AAndres
Andres
CChris
Chris

Investors · 6

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Fetcher offers software for talent acquisition teams that automates candidate sourcing, engagement, and recruiting analytics. Rather than requiring recruiters to search databases, job boards, and resumes manually, the platform combines AI-based screening with a human expert team that assembles candidate profiles matched to a customer's hiring requirements. Sourced candidates can be reviewed in batches and pushed into automated email campaigns, with responses returning to the recruiter's inbox.

The product spans both outbound sourcing and, following a newer release, inbound recruiting, so customers can screen applicants with AI when candidate supply is plentiful and shift to outbound search when roles are harder to fill. Additional capabilities include configurable diversity search criteria intended to help teams build more representative pipelines, recruitment analytics, and integrations with applicant tracking systems, CRMs, email, and Slack.

Business model

Fetcher sells a talent sourcing and candidate engagement platform to employers' recruiting and people teams, pairing its software with a sourcing team that curates candidate profiles; prospective customers are directed to book a demo or get started via the website.

Traction

Publicly cited usage figures include an average of 23 seconds spent vetting a sourced candidate, roughly 17 hours saved per role, a 40% average response rate on automated email sequences, and claimed savings of $20,000 per recruiter per year in hourly sourcing costs. Named customer references include people and talent leaders who describe reviewing candidate batches in 15 minutes or less.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market

Market position

Positioned as a sourcing automation tool for recruiting teams, with customer testimonials contrasting its candidate data and workflow against searching on LinkedIn; the site cites user reviews on GetApp, Sourceforge, and Capterra.

Technology

The platform applies AI to candidate screening and profile matching, layered with human review, and supports automated multi-step email outreach sequences. It integrates with ATS and CRM systems, email, and Slack, and provides recruitment analytics dashboards.

Go-to-market

Direct sales motion driven by the company website with demo bookings and self-serve sign-up, supported by content marketing (recruiting strategy and talent sourcing articles), a newsletter, and published customer stories from heads of people and talent acquisition.

In-house recruiting, talent acquisition, and people teams at growing companies, hiring knowledge workers across engineering, finance, product, operations, marketing, sales, and customer success.

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Average response rate from automated email sequencesJan 202440%
Average time a user spends vetting a candidate sourced by FetcherJan 202423 seconds
Claimed hourly sourcing cost savings per recruiterJan 2024$20K
HeadcountAug 2026135
Time saved per role using Fetcher to find and engage a prospectJan 202417 hours

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Competitors · 8

by search overlap
Perfect113 shared keywordsGoPerfect offers an AI recruiting platform whose agent sources, screens, and engages candidates by searching 800M+ profiles, scoring applicants, and sending personalized outreach via LinkedIn, email, and SMS. It integrates with applicant tracking systems like Greenhouse, Lever, and Workday and serves HR teams, recruiters, and heads of talent.
Juicebox105 shared keywordsJuicebox is an AI recruiting platform that helps talent acquisition teams discover, evaluate, and outreach to candidates at scale using AI search across 800M+ global profiles, alongside AI agents that automate sourcing and follow-up workflows.
Metaview Agentic recruiting platform96 shared keywordsMetaview is an AI-powered recruiting platform that uses agents to help source, engage, and hire candidates end to end. It provides recruiters and hiring managers with shared context, AI assistants, and audit trails for hiring workflows.
HireEZ73 shared keywordshireEZ builds an AI-first recruiting platform that combines AI talent sourcing, recruitment CRM, analytics, and automation for talent acquisition and recruiting teams. Its agentic AI automates sourcing, screening, outreach, scheduling, and analytics while keeping recruiters in control.
Pin72 shared keywordsPin is an AI recruitment platform, built by Love Thy Recruiting, Inc., that automates candidate sourcing, matching, outreach, and interview scheduling by searching over 850 million candidate profiles and integrating with 120+ applicant tracking systems. It serves recruiting agencies, founders, and enterprise hiring teams.
Hackerearth70 shared keywordsHackerEarth offers an AI Practice Agent, a training tool that lets developers practice mock interviews and coding problems while receiving automated feedback from AI models. The product is aimed at developers looking to improve interview readiness and problem-solving skills.
Gem66 shared keywordsGem is an AI recruiting platform that helps talent acquisition teams find candidates and hire faster. It serves recruiting teams at startups and enterprises.
Zapier66 shared keywordsZapier provides a platform for connecting AI models and agents to workflows and business applications, enabling teams to automate tasks across over 9,000 apps without coding. The platform serves enterprises, operations teams, and businesses of all sizes looking to deploy AI-driven automation for lead capture, customer support, employee onboarding, and other business processes.

Companies competing with Fetcher for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

Timeline · 1

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2024
Launch of inbound recruiting product

Fetcher announced a new product release enabling inbound recruiting, allowing users to apply its AI to screen candidates when applicant volume is high and switch to outbound sourcing when talent is scarce.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

Research sources · 1

primary sources listed

1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Fetcher do?
Fetcher is an AI-assisted talent sourcing platform that finds, screens, and emails candidates for recruiting teams.
Who founded Fetcher?
Fetcher was founded by Santi Aimetta, Andres Blank, Chris Calmeyn, Genevieve Jurvetson, HR Tech SaaS Santi Aimetta, Javier Castiarena in 2016.
Who are Fetcher's investors?
Fetcher's investors include G20 Ventures, PICUS CAPITAL, Roo Capital, Tola Capital, Accomplice, Slow Ventures.
Where is Fetcher headquartered?
Fetcher is headquartered in New York, US.