Perfect taps $23M to fix the flaws in recruitment with AI

“Agentic AI” is the concept of the moment. Developers big and small are rushing to build apps to leapfrog the heavy lifting needed to employ generative AI in specific contexts… and investors are rushing to fund the most interesting of these. In one of the latest examples, a startup out of Israel called Perfect — a platform for recruiters to improve how they source and hire candidates for jobs — has raised seed funding of $23 million. Recruiting teams use Perfect as a co-pilot as they write open job posts, figure out where to run them, and then triage the inbound responses. Perfect both works with but also competes with tools from companies like Indeed, Recruiter, and LinkedIn. Perfect claims to save recruiters as much as 25 hours per week of work. In the year since it quietly opened for business, Perfect said has grown its customer base to 200 businesses from a start of just 20. The list includes Fiverr, eToro, McCann and Coralogix. Perfect was founded by Eylon Etshtein, perhaps be ... Read full article.