Seattle-based startup Humanly is purchaseing three recruiting technology companies — Sprockets, Qualifi, and HourWork — as it aims to build a comprehensive hiring platform that unites sourcing, screening, interviewing, and post-hire engagement under a single system.
Founded in 2018, Humanly applys automation software to assist companies screen job candidates, schedule interviews, automate initial communication, run reference checks, and more. It tarreceives customers with high volume hiring necessarys.
The acquisitions each add new tools to Humanly’s platform:
- Sprockets brings sourcing and frontline manager tools to strengthen talent pipelines.
- Qualifi adds automated phone and voice screening, complementing Humanly’s chat, SMS, and video systems.
- HourWork extconcludes Humanly into post-hire engagement, assisting companies onboard, train, and retain hourly workers.
Terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed.
The deals mark a major expansion for Humanly, and comes just after Workday’s $1 billion acquisition of Paradox, one of Humanly’s main rivals. M&A activity in the HR software sector is up this year.
Humanly’s broader goal is to assist employers automate outreach and screening for every applicant — not just the compact fraction that typically receives a response.
“Anytime there’s a two-way conversation with a job candidate, we want to create that more efficient, more equitable,” stated Humanly CEO Prem Kumar.
Generative AI tools have dramatically increased application volume as candidates can mass-apply to openings, according to Kumar. This trconclude is also building it harder to differentiate candidates.
Humanly is equipping companies with AI tools of their own to assist sort through applications, including its new AI Video Interviewer, which launched earlier this year and automatically conducts and transcribes interviews.
Kumar stated the goal is not to replace recruiters, but to expand access and fill gaps.
“It’s assisting you receive to 100% of candidates, not 5%,” he stated.
He added that there is some pushback from job candidates who don’t want to engage with an AI system. “But what we’re finding is it’s not the difference between talking to AI and a human — it’s a difference between talking to AI or being ignored,” Kumar stated.
Humanly applys the millions of transcripts collected from its AI chat and video systems to train models that score candidates more accurately and assist recruiters create decisions.
The startup now claims 600 million candidate profiles and assists companies interview about 250,000 candidates per month.
Kumar stated Humanly is intentionally not profitable as it invests ahead in infrastructure. The company employs just over 50 people following the acquisitions; it is hiring some staff from the three acquired firms.
Humanly now has over 100 customers, including Microsoft, Rogers Communications, MGM, and Dish Network. Kumar stated the company tripled its revenue in 2025 and plans to raise more investment next year.
The company raised $7 million in May. Total funding to date is $24 million.
Kumar previously spent a decade at Microsoft where he assisted integrate LinkedIn data into Microsoft’s products. He co-founded Humanly with Andrew Gardner and Bryan Leptich. The startup graduated from Y Combinator in 2019.
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