Juicebox Funding History

Juicebox builds recruiting software that includes PeopleGPT, a search engine for finding candidates.

Company Overview

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Juicebox

  • AI Recruitment & Job Search
  • People & Company Search

Founded 2022 · San Francisco, California, US

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Juicebox Funding Timeline

  1. Mar 10, 2026

    Series B

    $80M · $850M valuation

    Juicebox planned to expand its AI recruiting tools for finding and contacting candidates.

    Led by DST Global. Participation included Sequoia Capital, Coatue, Y Combinator.

    Source · businesswire.com ↗
  2. Announced Sep 4, 2025

    Series A

    US$30 million

    The Series A brought Juicebox’s cumulative funding to $36 million.

    Led by Sequoia Capital.

    Source · juicebox.ai ↗

Juicebox Founding Team

David Paffenholz and Ishan Gupta had already built a music app together in college before starting Juicebox. They turned to recruiting, building tools to help teams find and contact candidates.

Juicebox Products

  • Juicebox

    Find candidates with natural-language search and manage recruiting outreach.

Juicebox Company Development

PeopleGPT Becomes a Recruiting Workspace

Juicebox used PeopleGPT to make candidate discovery searchable in natural language. It then built contact management and agent-assisted outreach around that search, bringing the work after the initial shortlist into the same recruiting platform.

Juicebox Competitive Landscape

Starting with a Search or an Applicant

Juicebox helps recruiters identify people to approach before there is an application. Humanly focuses on conversations, screening and scheduling at higher hiring volumes. A recruiter’s bottleneck determines which tool addresses more of the work.