Ashby

About Ashby

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Ashby

All products by Ashby reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

AshbyAI HR & Recruiting

The all-in-one recruiting platform that evolves at the speed of AI

From $400/mo7.6/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Ashby

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Ashby's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.2 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Ashby competes with, and how they differ.

Greenhouse

The incumbent ATS Ashby was explicitly built to displace — Ashby runs a dedicated Ashby-vs-Greenhouse comparison page and its CEO has named Greenhouse as the vendor it replaces. Greenhouse is built around a large partner-integration ecosystem, so teams typically buy separate sourcing, scheduling, survey and analytics tools alongside it, where Ashby ships those natively on one data model.

Lever7.4/10

Lever sells the same natively combined ATS and recruiting CRM that is Ashby's core architectural claim, making it the closest structural match in the catalog. Since being acquired by Employ Inc. in August 2022 it ships as one brand inside a multi-product portfolio rather than as a single continuously shipped platform.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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SmartRecruiters7.1/10

SmartRecruiters targets large global enterprises with an ATS, recruiting CRM, SmartDistribute job distribution and its Winston AI screening assistant across SMS, WhatsApp and web chat. It overlaps with Ashby on high-volume and multi-country hiring, while Ashby's base is tech startups and mid-market teams now moving upmarket.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Workable7.9/10

Workable is an Athens-based ATS aimed at SMB and mid-market teams, bundling job-board distribution and sourcing with self-serve pricing. It competes with Ashby on setup speed and cost per seat rather than on the recruiting-operations analytics depth Ashby sells against.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

iCIMS7.2/10

iCIMS is an enterprise-only talent acquisition suite from Holmdel, New Jersey, selling applicant tracking, candidate engagement, employer branding and onboarding as modules of one platform with a strength in high-volume hiring. Ashby meets it only at the enterprise end of its range (customers such as Shopify and Snowflake) and sells a single all-in-one product rather than a module portfolio.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Ashby's history, with sources.

1. Jun 30, 2026Launch

   Ashby MCP goes live

   Ashby released a Model Context Protocol server that lets customers connect Ashby recruiting data to ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and other MCP-compatible clients, positioned alongside its in-product Ashby Assistant.

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2. May 7, 2026Launch

   Ashby One 2026 keynote — AI Interviewer, Ashby Assistant and Custom Agents

   At its fourth annual product keynote, held for roughly 700 attendees in San Francisco and over 1,500 more virtually, Ashby launched an AI Interviewer, the chat-based Ashby Assistant and Custom Agents. The company said it had grown from 2,400 to more than 4,400 customers over the prior year with revenue growth above 100%.

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3. Sep 16, 2025Launch

   Launches the first ATS-integrated candidate fraud detection system

   Ashby shipped fraud detection built directly into its applicant tracking system, flagging suspected fraudulent applicants during review rather than requiring a separate identity-verification vendor.

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4. Jul 22, 2025Funding

   Series D — $50M led by Alkeon Capital

   Alkeon Capital's Mark McLaughlin led the round with returning investor Lachy Groom co-leading, joined by F-Prime, Elad Gil and Gaingels. Ashby said the oversubscribed round was struck at twice its Series C valuation, and that it had scaled from 1,300 to over 2,700 customers with revenue up 135% year over year and 220 employees across 20+ countries.

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5. 2025Acquisition

   Acquires the team and assets behind Talent Llama

   Ashby's first acquisition brought in the team and technology behind Talent Llama, an early-stage voice- and text-based AI interviewing product, which Ashby then rebuilt natively inside its own platform. The deal was disclosed publicly at Ashby One on 7 May 2026.

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6. Jun 3, 2024Funding

   Series C — $30M led by Lachy Groom

   Lachy Groom, who also led Ashby's seed round, led the up-round with participation from Elad Gil, F-Prime and Y Combinator, bringing total raised to $70M. Ashby reported over 1,300 customers, revenue up 6x, and a team of about 100 in San Francisco.

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7. Sep 13, 2022Launch

   Exits stealth with public launch and more than 500 customers

   Ashby came out of stealth as an all-in-one recruiting platform combining ATS, scheduling, sourcing CRM and analytics, with over 500 customers including Notion, Opendoor, FullStory and Figma, and 55 employees.

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8. Sep 13, 2022Funding

   Series B — $21.5M led by F-Prime Capital

   F-Prime Capital led the $21.5M Series B with participation from Elad Gil, Lachy Groom, Semper Virens, Base Case Capital and Gaingels, bringing Ashby's total raised to $34.5M.

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9. 2020Launch

   First customer launch after two years of in-house product build

   The founders spent the first two years after starting Ashby building the platform in-house — ATS, CRM, scheduling and analytics on a single shared foundation — before launching it to customers in 2020, two years ahead of the public launch.

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10. 2018Founded

    Founded in San Francisco by Benjamin Encz and Abhik Pramanik

    Benjamin Encz, then director of engineering at construction software startup PlanGrid, and Abhik Pramanik, a senior product manager there, founded Ashby in 2018 after Encz ran into the limits of existing applicant tracking systems while recruiting for his own team.

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