Greenhouse
Headquarters
New York, NYFounded
2012CEO / Founder
Daniel ChaitEmployees
501-1000Funding
Acquired — $110MProducts
0 products listedWebsite
www.greenhouse.io/
Profile updated
About Greenhouse
Greenhouse is an applicant tracking and hiring software company founded in 2012 in New York by Daniel Chait and Jon Stross. The platform helps companies source, interview, hire, and onboard candidates through structured hiring workflows.
Greenhouse serves more than 7,500 customers globally including Airbnb, HubSpot, and DoorDash. The product is a category leader in enterprise and mid-market applicant tracking.
TPG Capital acquired Greenhouse in 2021 at a valuation over $1.5 billion. Prior to acquisition the company had raised approximately $110 million. Daniel Chait continues as CEO.
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Financials
Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.
No products listed yet for this company.
Competitive Landscape
Who Greenhouse competes with, and how they differ.
Lever competes directly in the same mid-market-to-enterprise ATS segment as Greenhouse, differentiating with a built-in candidate CRM and outbound sourcing tools baked into the core product rather than Greenhouse's marketplace/integration-partner approach.
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Ashby is a newer all-in-one ATS with native analytics, scheduling and sourcing that has taken share from Greenhouse among venture-backed startups and scale-ups, competing on product velocity and pricing rather than Greenhouse's structured-hiring methodology.
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iCIMS is sold primarily to large-enterprise HR departments with deeper compliance, career-site and onboarding tooling than Greenhouse's core ATS, competing for Fortune 500 talent-acquisition budgets outside Greenhouse's tech-company-heavy customer base.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
SmartRecruiters competes for the same enterprise ATS budget with an open marketplace model for background checks, assessments and sourcing vendors, positioning itself as more vendor-agnostic than Greenhouse's tighter integration ecosystem.
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Workday Recruiting is bundled inside Workday's broader HCM/finance suite, competing for large enterprise deals where buyers want one system of record instead of Greenhouse's best-of-breed, ATS-only product.
BambooHR bundles a lightweight ATS into its core HRIS/payroll product for small businesses, competing with Greenhouse mainly at the low end of the market that Greenhouse's enterprise-oriented structured hiring doesn't prioritize.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Greenhouse's history, with sources.
- Milestone
Co-founder and President Jon Stross retires from full-time role
After more than 13 years building the company, Stross stepped back from day-to-day operations to become an advisor; Daniel Chait continues as CEO.
greenhouse.com - Partnership
Partnered with CLEAR on Greenhouse Real Talent identity verification
Greenhouse integrated CLEAR's CLEAR1 identity platform into its Real Talent product to verify candidates via selfie-to-ID matching and combat AI-generated and fraudulent job applications.
greenhouse.com - Acquisition
Acquired sourcing automation startup Interseller
Greenhouse acquired Interseller to add candidate sourcing, data enrichment and outreach automation into its CRM; the Interseller team joined Greenhouse on November 1, 2021.
greenhouse.com - Acquisition
TPG Growth and The Rise Fund take majority stake
TPG's growth-equity and impact-investing arms invested roughly $500M in total -- about $47M of new primary capital plus roughly $450M buying shares from existing investors including Benchmark and Thrive Capital -- valuing Greenhouse at close to $820M post-money.
forbes.com - Funding
Series D -- $50M led by Riverwood Capital
The round brought Greenhouse's total funding to $110 million.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Series C -- $35M led by Thrive Capital
The round brought total funding to roughly $60 million; Greenhouse's customer base had grown to over 800, including Slack and Pinterest.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Series B -- $13.6M led by Benchmark
Social+Capital Partnership, Felicis Ventures and Resolute Ventures also participated; Matt Cohler joined the board.
en.wikipedia.org - Funding
Series A -- $7.5M led by Social+Capital Partnership
Resolute Ventures and Felicis Ventures also participated; Mamoon Hamid joined the board.
en.wikipedia.org - Funding
Seed round -- $2.7M led by Social+Capital Partnership and Resolute Ventures
Angel investors included ZocDoc co-founder Nick Ganju among others.
en.wikipedia.org - Founded
Greenhouse Software founded by Daniel Chait and Jon Stross
Daniel Chait and Jon Stross, University of Michigan classmates, founded Greenhouse Software in New York to build a structured-hiring platform.
en.wikipedia.org
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