Eightfold AI Inc
Headquarters
Santa Clara, CAFounded
2016CEO / Founder
Ashutosh GargEmployees
501-1000Funding
Series D+ — $410MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.6/10Website
eightfold.ai/
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About Eightfold AI Inc
Eightfold AI is an enterprise talent intelligence company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2016 by Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia, both former Google engineers. The company builds AI-powered software designed to help large organizations manage the full talent lifecycle, from sourcing and recruiting to internal mobility and workforce planning.
Eightfold's primary product is its Talent Intelligence Platform, which analyzes skills data to match candidates to roles, identify internal employees for new positions, and forecast workforce needs. The platform is used by enterprises across industries including healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, and government. Customers have included Vodafone, Bayer, and the U.S. Department of Defense, among others. The company competes with applicant tracking systems and HR platforms such as Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, and Beamery.
Eightfold raised a $220 million Series E round in 2021 at a reported valuation of $2.1 billion, bringing its total funding to approximately $410 million. Investors include SoftBank Vision Fund 2, General Catalyst, and Capital One Ventures. The company has grown to several hundred employees and has expanded its go-to-market presence across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Eightfold AI Inc competes with, and how they differ.
Talent Experience Management platform with the closest product overlap — AI-driven career sites, CRM and skills-matching aimed at the same enterprise TA buyer.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Talent-CRM-first approach (nurture and pipeline building) versus Eightfold's deep-learning skills-matching core; both sell into enterprise TA leaders.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Focused on AI-powered candidate sourcing and diversity search rather than Eightfold's full talent-lifecycle intelligence platform.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Embeds AI-based matching (via its HiredScore acquisition) directly into its incumbent HCM suite, competing on convenience for existing Workday customers rather than best-of-breed AI depth.
Conversational AI recruiting assistant built for high-volume, frontline hiring — narrower scope than Eightfold's enterprise talent-intelligence platform but overlaps in automating the hiring funnel.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Eightfold AI Inc's history, with sources.
- Partnership
Strategic partnership with S&P Global on its Talent Intelligence Platform
S&P Global adopted Eightfold's Talent Design framework for skills-based career mobility across its own workforce.
prnewswire.com - Partnership
Strategic partnership with UKG to enhance enterprise hiring
Integrated with the UKG Pro suite via the UKG FleX platform to deliver skills-based, high-volume hiring.
businesswire.com - Funding
Series E — $220M led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, valuing Eightfold at $2.1B
Valuation more than doubled from the October 2020 Series D; brought total funding to over $410M.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Series D — $125M led by General Catalyst, valuing Eightfold at $1B
Made Eightfold a unicorn; existing investors Capital One Ventures, Foundation Capital, IVP and Lightspeed also participated.
prnewswire.com - Funding
Series C — $28M led by Foundation Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners
Brought total funding to $55M as Eightfold scaled its AI-powered talent management platform.
prnewswire.com - Funding
Seed — $6M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed led a $6M seed round for the newly founded AI talent-intelligence startup.
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