Juicebox
Find candidates with natural-language search and manage recruiting outreach.
Juicebox builds recruiting software that includes PeopleGPT, a search engine for finding candidates.

Juicebox
Founded 2022 · San Francisco, California, US
Official Website$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 ↗US$30 million
The Series A brought Juicebox’s cumulative funding to $36 million.
Led by Sequoia Capital.
Source · juicebox.ai ↗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.
Find candidates with natural-language search and manage recruiting outreach.
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 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.