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Hollo
Techstars '21Paris, FR · 9 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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Paris-based HR SaaS company using conversational AI and SMS to engage, qualify and re-activate job candidates.
Also known as HOLLO
Investors · 1
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Hollo is a Paris-based recruitment technology ("Recruit Tech") company offering a SaaS platform aimed at automating and personalising the conversational relationship between recruiters and candidates across the hiring process. The product uses conversational AI to handle candidate interaction steps — initial engagement, pre-selection and re-activation — with the stated goal of delivering qualified applications into a single platform and allowing recruiters to re-engage candidates automatically. The company positions the tool as configurable by HR teams in a short setup period and as supporting employer branding alongside speed of hire.
The platform is described as integrating with existing applicant tracking systems (ATS) and CRM tools to reduce duplicated work, and as leveraging SMS to resurface past applicants into talent pools so that employers do not restart sourcing from scratch for each new opening; the company claims this can cut time-to-fill by 75%. Listings classify Hollo under business services / HR, with a B2B model delivered as a web platform and mobile app.
Founding story
Co-founded by Charles Lambert and Thomas Moussafer. Lambert, a graduate of Groupe ESC La Rochelle with a background in commercial recruitment, has been associated with Hollo as co-founder since late 2017 and previously worked as a partner at MY BRIDGE.
Business model
B2B SaaS sold to employers' HR and talent acquisition teams, with the platform layered on top of customers' existing ATS and CRM systems. Public listings categorise the company as a B2B software and service business; Stripe appears in the website technology stack.
Traction
Reported headcount of 1–10 employees across directory listings; the company is listed at seed stage on the Techstars job board. It claims a 75% reduction in time-to-fill for customers.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Operates in the French recruitment/HR technology segment, listed alongside other Paris-area HR and recruiting software companies such as Work4Labs, EasyRecrue, Beetween and Keople in sector directories.
Technology
Conversational AI ("intelligence conversationnelle") powering automated candidate interactions such as chatbot-based pre-selection, engagement and re-engagement, with SMS used to re-contact past applicants. The platform integrates with ATS and CRM systems. The public website stack includes Webflow, AWS/Cloudflare hosting, Intercom, Weglot, Calendly, Google Analytics/Tag Manager and Stripe.
Go-to-market
Marketed directly to HR departments as a self-serve-style platform positioned as "built with HR for HR" and configurable in under five minutes, supported by a public website and presence in French startup directories and the Techstars company network.
Employers' HR, recruitment and talent acquisition teams, including small and mid-sized companies; one user review on a French startup directory came from a 75-person SME.
Geography
Headquartered in Paris, France, at 23 Rue de Choiseul in the 2nd arrondissement, with listings referencing several central Paris arrondissements and the Île-de-France region.
History
French company records list HOLLO (SIREN 883980385) as created on 2 June 2020, and the Techstars listing gives a founding year of 2020. A separate French startup directory associates the Hollo project with the entity MY BRIDGE (SARL, SIRET 75364071300032), created in 2012, at the same Paris address.
Risks & controversies
French public business data cited on one startup directory (verified 2026-09-23) lists the HOLLO legal entity's status as ceased, which conflicts with the same page's "active" stage label and with other listings showing the company as operating.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Related companies · 3
Companies working in the same space as Hollo.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Startup HOLLO,Réinvente le processus de recrutement et la relation candidatmyfrenchstartup.com · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Hollo do?
- Paris-based HR SaaS company using conversational AI and SMS to engage, qualify and re-activate job candidates.
- Who are Hollo's investors?
- Hollo's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Hollo headquartered?
- Hollo is headquartered in Paris, FR.