Tenzo
8 known investors
Tenzo AI provides AI agents that automate recruiting tasks including phone and video interviews, resume review, candidate scheduling, fraud detection, and sourcing from ATS databases. It targets corporate recruiters and hiring teams, integrating with existing applicant tracking systems.
Also known as Tenzo AI · tenzo.ai
Founders & leadership
Investors · 8
Also in the syndicate · 2
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$5M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2023–2026
- Undisclosed amountSeries A extensionApr 2026
Edge.vc (lead), Amadeus Capital Partners, Frontive Holdings, YourVC
Source ↗ - $5MSeries AMay 2023 · 3 sources
Amadeus Capital Partners (lead), S28 Capital (lead)
Source ↗
Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Tenzo AI markets an "AI recruiter" that automates top-of-funnel hiring work. Its agents conduct AI-powered phone and video interviews around the clock and in multiple languages, and can engage candidates through phone calls, video, WhatsApp and email. Additional modules cover resume review (parsing and surfacing strong applicants without keyword matching), interview scheduling and coordination with instant candidate responses, fraud detection, and candidate rediscovery that searches an employer's existing applicant tracking system, the web and proprietary databases for previously overlooked talent.
The fraud-detection component is presented as using more than 40 signals to detect misrepresentation, cheating and stolen identities, with identity verification applied during interviews. Interviews produce structured outputs such as scores, summaries and screening notes tied to configurable role requirements (required, preferred and nice-to-have criteria, minimum star ratings and resume filtering). The company emphasizes configurability, stating that agents should be custom-tuned to each organization's process rather than imposing a single workflow.
Tenzo AI positions the product as an execution layer that sits on top of, rather than replaces, an applicant tracking system: the ATS remains the system of record for job orders, candidate records, workflow, reporting and integrations, while the AI recruiter handles screening, applicant ranking, identity verification, note-taking and re-engagement of dormant candidates in the database.
Business model
Software sold to employers and recruiting organizations, with prospective customers routed through a "Book a Demo" flow handled by a solutions team.
Traction
Public materials cite a 4.9/5 rating on G2 and a customer testimonial from Craig Brown, CEO of Agilus Work Solutions. The company advertises outcomes of screening 11x more candidates, hiring 80% faster and interviewing 94% cheaper.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market
Market position
Describes itself as an AI recruiter used by employers, and frames its main alternative/complement as the applicant tracking system, arguing the two are used together rather than as substitutes.
Positions on configurability (agents tuned to each company's requirements and outreach rules), candidate experience (every applicant able to interview on their own schedule, including nights and weekends), and built-in fraud and identity checks earlier in the funnel than an ATS provides.
Technology
AI agents for voice and video interviewing operating 24/7 in any language across phone, video, WhatsApp and email; resume reading without keyword requirements; automated scheduling; candidate rediscovery searches across an ATS, the web and proprietary databases; and a fraud-detection system that evaluates 40+ signals for misrepresentation, cheating and stolen identities, including ID verification and detection of bad actors.
Go-to-market
Inbound demo requests from the company's website, supported by a content/blog program addressing topics such as how an AI recruiter complements an ATS for staffing firms, and by customer testimonials and third-party review-site ratings.
Corporate recruiting teams, staffing/recruiting agencies and RPO providers, as indicated by the use-case options in the company's demo request form.
Compiled by commissioned research from 7 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.
Competitors · 6
by search overlapCompanies competing with Tenzo for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
In the news
▸Research sources · 7
primary sources listed
- Tenzotenzo.ai · web
7 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Tenzo do?
- Tenzo AI builds AI recruiting agents that screen, interview, rank and verify candidates on top of existing ATS systems.
- Who founded Tenzo?
- Tenzo was founded by Mason Swofford.
- Who are Tenzo's investors?
- Tenzo's investors include Abstract Ventures, Edge VC, Webb Investment Network, Acequia Capital (AceCap), Amadeus Capital Partners, S28 Capital.
- How much funding has Tenzo raised?
- Tenzo has disclosed $5M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.




