Juicebox at a glance
Company: Juicebox, at juicebox.ai
What it is: an AI recruiting platform for finding, evaluating and reaching candidates
Founded: by David Paffenholz (CEO) and Ishan Gupta, after Y Combinator in 2022
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Customers: 5,000+ companies, from seed-stage startups to enterprises such as Cognition, Ramp, Quora and Perplexity
Search coverage: 800M+ profiles from 30+ data sources
Integrations: 100+ ATS, CRM and email integrations
Funding: $116M raised, including an $80M Series B led by DST Global in March 2026 at an $850M valuation. Sequoia Capital led the $30M Series A.
Investors: DST Global, Sequoia Capital, Verified Capital, Committed Capital, NFDG, Coatue and Y Combinator
Pricing: a free plan plus paid plans for teams and enterprises (see pricing)
Security: security and compliance details are in the Trust Center
Press and careers: Juicebox in the press and open roles
Our mission
Our mission is to give every recruiter superhuman leverage. Recruiting is a zero-sum game: every hour saved can mean winning the right candidate before someone else does. Juicebox helps teams win by automating repetitive work, surfacing the most qualified candidates faster, and freeing recruiters to focus on relationships and strategic hiring. Our goal is to make recruiters ten times more effective, not to replace them.
What Juicebox does
Describe the person you want in plain language instead of writing Boolean strings
Searches 800M+ profiles from 30+ public and proprietary sources
Enriched, deduplicated profiles with verified contact data
Ranks candidates and writes a summary of why each one fits
Learn more about Candidate Search
Autonomous sourcing: continuously searches 30+ data sources for each open role, even while you are offline
Smart shortlists: presents candidates with the reasoning for why each one is a fit
Adaptive learning: improves over time from recruiter approvals, rejections and hiring manager feedback
Follow-ups: drafts personalized follow-up emails, ready for recruiter approval
Learn more about Juicebox Agents
Verified contact information
Personalized multi-step email sequences, drafted with AI
Opens, clicks and replies tracked in one dashboard
Learn more about Outreach
Candidate CRM: organize candidates into projects and track them by role and stage (Juicebox CRM)
One-click ATS sync: push candidates, notes and activity into your ATS (integrations)
Hiring manager collaboration: collect feedback directly in Juicebox (hiring manager workflows)
Email and CRM: send from Gmail or Outlook and log activity back to your CRM
Who uses Juicebox
Recruiting and talent teams at 5,000+ companies use Juicebox, including:
Startups, from seed to Series C: building founding and early teams fast, like Lovable and Vapi
Enterprise talent teams: scaling global hiring with AI
Recruiting and staffing agencies: running high-volume sourcing for clients, like Coastal Recruiting and V3 Talent Partners
Read how teams use it in our customer stories, including CoinTracker and Merge. Moving from another tool? See switching to Juicebox.
Integrations
Juicebox connects to 100+ applicant tracking systems, CRMs and email tools, including Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, Bullhorn, Recruiterflow, JobAdder, SmartRecruiters, BambooHR and Personio, plus Gmail and Outlook. See the full list of integrations.
Company news
October 2026: Juicebox acquired Fetcher’s assets as Fetcher retired its platform.
March 2026: Juicebox raised an $80M Series B led by DST Global.
September 2025: Juicebox raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia Capital.
Common questions
Is Juicebox the same as PeopleGPT?
PeopleGPT is the former name of Juicebox’s natural-language search product, now called Candidate Search, at juicebox.ai/search. The company and platform are Juicebox. References to “Juicebox (PeopleGPT)” mean the same company.
What is the Juicebox website?
The official website is juicebox.ai. Candidate Search is at juicebox.ai/search, and Juicebox Agents are at juicebox.ai/agents.
How much does Juicebox cost?
Juicebox has a free plan and paid Starter, Growth and Business plans, with Juicebox Agents as an add-on. Current prices are on the pricing page.
How do I try Juicebox?
You can start for free or book a demo with the team.
How does Juicebox compare to other recruiting tools?
See our side-by-side comparisons with hireEZ, SeekOut, Gem and Metaview, and our guide to the AI candidate sourcing category.
Where is Juicebox based?
San Francisco, California.
Does Juicebox replace recruiters?
No. Juicebox handles sourcing and first-touch outreach so recruiters can spend their time on qualifying, selling the role and closing. Our guide to AI candidate sourcing explains where the line sits.
