RippleMatch

RippleMatch operates a two-sided early-career recruiting platform. Candidates — primarily college students and recent graduates — create free profiles describing their education, experience, skills and job preferences, and the platform recommends roles it determines they are likely to be successful in, along with an explanation of the fit, instead of requiring mass applications to job boards. On the employer side, RippleMatch positions itself as a campus recruiting operating system covering candidate sourcing, diversity recruitment, recruitment marketing, employer branding, virtual events, skill validation and recruiting analytics, with data transferable to major applicant tracking systems (documented integrations include Greenhouse, Lever, Workday and SuccessFactors).

The platform automatically identifies and engages candidates across a large number of U.S. campuses, which the company described as more than 1,300 in 2021 and more than 1,500 — including over 170 historically Black colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions — in 2022. Employers cited by the company and press include Amazon, SAP, eBay, PNC, General Mills, Dell, Lenovo, MongoDB, UKG, NFI Industries and Alter Domus. More recent employer-facing positioning emphasizes pipelines of "AI-ready" talent with verified soft skills, technical ability and AI fluency.

Founding story

Andrew Myers and Eric Ho met as students at Yale University and founded RippleMatch in 2016 after observing that fellow students who appeared to be strong candidates frequently failed to reach a first interview. Myers, who dropped out of Yale, has said the founders were inspired by the data-driven recruitment approach Billy Beane applied at the Oakland Athletics, and aimed to replace job boards with technology that pushes relevant opportunities to candidates rather than requiring them to search. Myers serves as CEO and Ho as president.

Business model

RippleMatch is free for candidates and monetizes through employers, who purchase access to the recruiting platform. As of 2022, employers paid an annual subscription fee reported to range from $30,000 to $250,000 to use the platform, including sourcing, event hosting, candidate engagement and recruiting analytics.

Annual employer subscriptions to the recruiting platform, reported at $30,000 to $250,000 per year as of June 2022; the CEO declined to disclose company revenue at that time.

Traction

RippleMatch reported reaching over one million job seekers and more than 1,300 campuses in April 2021, and more than two million users with profiles and over 1,500 schools by June 2022. Forbes listed $34 million in funding and one million candidates as of late 2021. Employer-reported results cited by the company include a 70% reduction in applicant review time at eBay and 40% faster candidate movement at Alter Domus; the company claims users are 22 times more likely to secure a first-round interview than on competing platforms and cites 55x more schools reached and 50% more underrepresented minority applicants for employers.

Latest developments

The company's employer offering is currently marketed as a "Campus Recruiting OS" with AI talent solutions, verified skills and readiness assessments, event management and ATS integrations, alongside a candidate-facing product positioned as an AI job matchmaker.