Insider Brief
- AI recruiting platform Juicebox raised $80 million in Series B funding at an $850 million valuation led by DST Global, with participation from Sequoia, Coatue, Y Combinator, NFDG, and Verified Capital.
- The platform uses AI agents to search large talent datasets, identify strong candidates, and conduct targeted outreach, helping companies reduce the time spent identifying qualified candidates by up to 90%.
- Juicebox now serves more than 5,000 companies and has conducted over 560,000 searches and engaged more than 3 million candidates, with the new funding aimed at accelerating product development and expanding internationally.
PRESS RELEASE — Juicebox, the AI recruiting platform, announced $80 million in Series B funding at an $850 million valuation led by DST Global, with meaningful participation from Sequoia, Coatue, Y Combinator, NFDG, and Verified Capital. The company has tripled ARR since its Series A in July 2025, and now serves 5,000 customers spanning fast-growing technology companies and Fortune 100 brands, with customers reporting up to 90% less time spent identifying top candidates.
AI tools have made it easier than ever for candidates to flood companies with applications. The average job opening now receives nearly 250 applications, and inbound pipelines at companies of every size are buckling under the weight of low-intent, poorly matched candidates. The companies responding most effectively have stopped trying to fix inbound and are proactively identifying and engaging the right candidates. Juicebox is the AI recruiting platform that helps them identify and reach top candidates directly, before they ever apply.
“Building a talent function from scratch at a hyper-growth startup means I need to rely on tools that actually keep up,” said Patrick Circelli, Head of Talent at Cognition. “Juicebox’s agents are helping us uncover candidates we wouldn’t have found otherwise, and with the kind of quality that allows us to grow faster than any other company.”
Juicebox deploys agents to search across a comprehensive talent graph, surface candidates who match open roles, and reach them with targeted outreach at a speed and scale no human team could maintain on its own. Customers including Ramp, Cursor, and Samsara already trust Juicebox to build candidate pipelines defined by quality rather than volume.
“Juicebox is transforming how companies find and hire talent,” said Saurabh Gupta, Co-Founder at DST Global. “The strength of the product David and Ishan have built is clear from its rapid adoption and the exceptional love its customers feel for it, from high-growth technology companies to global financial institutions and traditional enterprises. DST Global is delighted to partner with Juicebox as they build the intelligent automated tools that the recruiting industry has needed for decades.”
To date, Juicebox has powered more than 560,000 searches and engaged over 3 million candidates. Juicebox was founded by David Paffenholz and Ishan Gupta, who started the company at just 22 and 19. The new funding will go toward accelerating product development, expanding enterprise go-to-market, and building out an international presence, starting with a London office later this year.
“Recruiting is going through its biggest shift in decades, and most teams haven’t caught up yet,” said David Paffenholz, CEO and co-founder of Juicebox. “The old model isn’t working, both for employers buried in applications that aren’t the right fit and for candidates who never hear back. Companies getting ahead are treating talent acquisition like an outbound engine, with recruiters and agents working hand-in-hand to target the best candidates.”
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About Juicebox
Juicebox is an AI-native recruiting platform used by 5,000+ companies worldwide to find and engage top talent faster with AI-powered search, outreach sequencing, and autonomous agents. Learn more at juicebox.ai.
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