Yello
Founded 2008 · 141 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
Yello provides a campus and early-talent recruiting platform with an AI agent that automates event building, candidate sourcing, and interview scheduling. It serves large enterprises and high-growth companies across industries, supporting the full recruiting workflow from planning and sourcing through onboarding and alumni engagement.
Also known as Recsolu
Founders & leadership
Yello was founded in 2008 by Jason Weingarten and Dan Bartfield.
Investors · 4
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Yello develops software for campus and early-career recruiting, covering planning, sourcing, events, candidate engagement, evaluations, interview scheduling, and recruitment operations. The platform is positioned as a layer that sits on top of a customer's existing applicant tracking system or HRIS rather than replacing it, and its product suite has included interview scheduling, talent relationship management, campus recruiting, evaluation management, event management, mobile apps, video interviewing, and referrals.
The company's current positioning centers on campus recruiting with an AI "Campus Recruiting Agent" that automates administrative tasks such as building events, sourcing candidates, and scheduling interviews. Sourcing draws on WayUp's candidate database, and Yello offers post-offer engagement spanning pre-boarding through alumni engagement, plus a FedRAMP-authorized offering for government recruiting. Yello also publishes a customer commitment ("the Yello Pledge") covering renewal pricing transparency, unrestricted access to engaged candidates, and process flexibility.
Founding story
Yello was the second venture for co-founders Jason Weingarten and Dan Bartfield, who had previously founded a company helping college students find jobs online and sold it in 2008. Former clients of that business asked them to solve recruiting challenges, leading them to found Recsolu (later Yello) in 2008 to serve large enterprises' campus recruiting needs. The name reportedly derives from Weingarten answering the phone with "yello" instead of "hello."
Business model
Yello sells subscription recruiting software to enterprise employers, with implementation, configuration, and customer success support; it markets multiple modules across planning, sourcing, events, post-offer engagement, and recruitment operations, and the platform can be used standalone or alongside a customer's existing ATS or HRIS.
Subscription-based software contracts with annual renewal pricing that the company commits to define contractually in advance.
Traction
Yello states that approximately 100 of the Fortune 500 use its platform, which powers 300+ enterprise clients' talent acquisition programs and is used in more than 70 countries and 15 languages. The company reports customers on average improve post-offer conversion rates by 27% and reduce reneges by 50%.
Latest developments
In November 2025 Yello acquired Symba, a new-hire readiness platform founded in 2017 whose co-founders Ahva Sadeghi and Nikita Gupta joined Yello, following a strategic partnership begun earlier in 2025. Yello has also launched its AI Campus Recruiting Agent and announced a partnership with Symplicity to expand candidate access for campus recruiters. Dan Bartfield is identified as Co-Founder and CEO and Michael Megerian as Chief Revenue Officer.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Yello describes itself as purpose-built for campus and early talent recruiting, with approximately 100 of the Fortune 500 and 300+ enterprise clients using its platform; press coverage has characterized it as an all-in-one recruitment marketing and operations solution layered on top of existing ATS or HRIS systems.
Yello positions itself as the only end-to-end solution built specifically for campus and early talent recruiting workflows, combining planning, sourcing, events, post-offer engagement, and recruitment operations with an AI agent for administrative tasks, plus configurable implementation and a published pricing and customer-treatment pledge.
Technology
A centralized cloud-based talent acquisition platform with campus planning, event management, candidate sourcing via WayUp's database, evaluation and interview scheduling workflows, analytics on recruiting effectiveness and candidate demographics, and integrations with customers' ATS/HRIS systems. Yello has added an AI Campus Recruiting Agent that automates event building, candidate sourcing, and interview scheduling.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales supported by demo requests on the company website, a customer success and implementation organization, and partnerships such as those with Symplicity and, prior to acquisition, Symba.
Large enterprises and high-growth companies across industries running campus and early-career hiring programs, typically organizations with 5,000 or more employees; named customers have included Johnson & Johnson, Comcast, Aramark, PepsiCo, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Lutron Electronics. A FedRAMP-authorized offering targets government recruiting.
Geography
Headquartered in Chicago, with the platform used in 70+ countries and 15+ languages.
History
Jason Weingarten and Dan Bartfield founded the company in 2008 under the name Recsolu, focused on supporting large enterprises with campus recruiting. In 2015 Recsolu rebranded to Yello as it extended beyond recruiting undergraduates into professional recruiting; at the time of the rename the company had about 30 employees and it added roughly 100 more over the following two years. It raised $4.2 million in the year prior to a $31 million Series C announced in June 2017, and in November 2025 acquired new-hire readiness platform Symba, whose co-founders joined Yello.
Risks & controversies
Because Yello's products sit on top of customers' existing applicant tracking systems, industry commentary has noted the risk that ATS vendors could add comparable functionality to their own offerings.
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 · 5
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Companies competing with Yello for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 6
launches, deals, and filingsYello acquired Symba, a new hire readiness platform founded in 2017, following a strategic partnership launched earlier in 2025. The Symba team, including co-founders Ahva Sadeghi and Nikita Gupta, joined Yello.
Yello announced a partnership with Symplicity to expand candidate access for campus recruiters.
Yello launched an AI campus recruiting agent that automates administrative work including building events, sourcing candidates, and scheduling interviews.
Yello announced the close of a $31 million Series C round led by JMI Equity with participation from previous investor First Analysis, bringing total investment to $42 million. JMI general partner Peter Arrowsmith joined the board of directors.
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In fundraising during the year preceding its Series C, Yello raised $4.2 million.
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Recsolu rebranded to Yello as the company extended its services beyond undergraduate campus recruiting into professional recruiting.
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In the news
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primary sources listed
- Yelloyello.co · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Yello do?
- Yello is a Chicago-based campus and early-career talent acquisition software platform used by large enterprises.
- Who founded Yello?
- Yello was founded by Jason Weingarten, Dan Bartfield in 2008.
- Who are Yello's investors?
- Yello's investors include JMI Equity, Multiplier Capital, The Argentum Group, First Analysis.