Talent, Learning & Services Markets Founders

Bartel is trying to make outbound recruiting CRM and AI sourcing a first-class system so talent teams stop hunting candidates in spreadsheets.

Campbell left a path toward novel-writing for enterprise sales, then founded Tropic after watching startups and Fortune 500 buyers alike overpay for software they could not track.

Carollo keeps rebuilding Dover around how startups hire - first as recruiting ops software, now as a marketplace for fractional recruiters with a free ATS.

Cole co-founded Cowen Partners in 2017 to fill executive jobs faster than the industry's 52-day average. He now leads C-suite searches and writes about why boards struggle to find, and even define, the AI executives they want.

Encz is betting that recruiting teams want one system with analytics built in, in place of the separate tracking, scheduling, and sourcing tools most of them still stitch together.

Farmer co-founded Harnham in 2006 to recruit only for data and analytics jobs. As CEO he has carried it from SAS analyst searches to machine learning and AI hiring, with 15,000 placements across Harnham and its Rockborne training business.

Fetter rebuilt executive search as matchmaking for digital leaders, including Indigo, her invite-only C-suite network.

Fichet is building AI recruiting software from Bangkok, Thailand, so agencies and HR teams can match and move candidates without enterprise ATS bloat.

Ghahramani is building Ribbon so every applicant, including the ones who apply at midnight, gets a real interview the moment they apply.

Gupta left an 18-year Microsoft career, including a stint as Bill Gates's technology assistant, to build talent search that finds hard-to-find and underrepresented technical people.

Ul Haq is betting that developers learn fastest by writing code inside the lesson itself, and that machines will soon tailor that practice to each learner.

Hyman is building Sapia.ai so frontline employers can interview every applicant fairly by chat, at the volume of a seasonal hiring rush.

Khim learned to program to help her family through hard times, and she now runs Brilliant, whose AI tutor, Koji, is built to guide learners through math and coding problems without handing them the answer.

Ryan Neu is co-founder and chief executive of Vendr, a company in Boston, Massachusetts, that helps businesses buy software at fair prices using data from thousands of past purchases. He spent his career in software sales before starting the company in 2018.

Ouzan watched gig platforms stall at simple tasks while FAANG alumni wanted autonomy, so he built A.Team to assemble whole product squads for company missions instead of filling single job reqs.

Ragavan is building HeyMilo so staffing firms and high-volume employers can screen every applicant fairly and send recruiters only the people worth their time.

Theuwissen left a corporate job at Coca-Cola within a year to co-found DataCamp, the online school that teaches data and AI skills by having learners write code in the browser. He has run its marketing, sales, product and content teams and served as its CEO before becoming chief operating officer.

After selling two cybersecurity companies into Cisco and Jamf, Tuvey turned the pain of buying software as a vendor and a customer into Vertice, a platform that negotiates SaaS and cloud spend with pricing data buyers rarely see.

Wang is building Alex so recruiters can have a real first conversation with every applicant, by phone or video, instead of judging them by a resume.