HireVue
Headquarters
Sandy, UTFounded
2004CEO / Founder
Jeremy FriedmanEmployees
201-500Funding
Private Equity — $390MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.5/10Website
www.hirevue.com/
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About HireVue
HireVue was founded in 2004 by Mark Newman in South Jordan, Utah, and provides AI-powered video interviewing and pre-hire assessment software to enterprise employers. The platform combines video interviews, structured skills assessments, and workflow automation to accelerate candidate screening across the hiring funnel.
The platform supports more than 35 languages and has facilitated over 80 million interviews for more than 1,150 enterprise customers globally. Key products include Virtual Job Tryout, game-based assessments, technical assessments, language proficiency tests, and an AI Interviewer. In 2023, HireVue acquired competitor Modern Hire, adding approximately 450 enterprise assessment clients to its roster.
HireVue raised $25 million in a Series D round led by Sequoia Capital in 2013 and received a growth equity investment from The Carlyle Group in 2019, bringing total known funding to approximately $390 million. As of 2024, the company employs approximately 326 people and is led by CEO Jeremy Friedman, who assumed the role in January 2024.
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Financials
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Products by HireVue
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Competitive Landscape
Who HireVue competes with, and how they differ.
Paradox's conversational AI assistant (Olivia) automates candidate screening, scheduling and onboarding via chat/SMS for high-volume, hourly hiring — the same segment HireVue entered by acquiring chatbot vendor AllyO in 2020 — but is built natively around chat rather than HireVue's structured, AI-scored video interview.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Humanly is a Seattle-based conversational AI platform that screens, schedules and interviews candidates for high-volume hiring via chat/text — like Paradox, a lighter-weight, chat-first alternative to HireVue's structured, on-camera video-interview and assessment product for the same high-volume hiring use case.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Eightfold's core product is skills-based talent-intelligence and internal-mobility matching across a large talent graph, competing with HireVue for enterprise AI-hiring budget even though its emphasis is candidate/talent matching rather than HireVue's structured, scored video interview.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedSHL is the longer-established psychometric assessment leader, competing with HireVue for enterprise pre-hire assessment spend on validated cognitive and personality testing rather than HireVue's video-interview-centric approach.
Harver (formerly OutMatch) sells a similar pre-hire-assessment-plus-video-screening bundle for high-volume enterprise hiring, generally positioned in reviews as faster to implement and easier to administer than HireVue.
Company Timeline
Key milestones in HireVue's history, with sources.
- Acquisition
Acquires Hireguide, an agentic-AI interview startup
HireVue acquired the technology and team behind Hireguide (formerly Hireprep), a Santa Monica-based agentic-AI hiring startup founded 2021, to build a voice-based AI Interviewer. Terms were not disclosed.
globenewswire.com - Milestone
ACLU and Public Justice file discrimination complaint over HireVue-scored Intuit interview
The ACLU, ACLU of Colorado and Public Justice filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division and EEOC alleging Intuit's use of a HireVue AI video-interview assessment discriminated against a deaf, Indigenous employee denied a promotion, arguing the underlying speech-recognition technology performs worse for deaf and non-white speakers. HireVue CEO Jeremy Friedman called the complaint "entirely without merit" and stated Intuit did not use a HireVue AI-based assessment for that interview. No regulatory or court ruling has resolved the dispute as of this writing.
hrdive.com - Milestone
CVS Health settles lawsuit over HireVue/Affectiva "employability score" interviews
CVS Health and CVS Pharmacy reached a tentative settlement, per a July 17, 2024 Massachusetts federal court filing, in a proposed class action (Baker v. CVS) alleging CVS used HireVue's video-interview platform with Affectiva facial-expression analysis to assign job applicants an "employability score" (covering traits like "integrity and honor") without an opt-out, allegedly violating the state's lie-detector-test law. A federal judge had denied CVS's motions to dismiss before the settlement; monetary terms were not publicly disclosed. HireVue itself was not a named defendant.
hrdive.com - Acquisition
Acquires Modern Hire
HireVue announced its acquisition of Modern Hire, a Riverside Company-backed pre-hire assessment and video-interview platform (~450 clients), combining the two companies' roughly 60 industrial-organizational psychologists. Financial terms were not disclosed.
hrdive.com - Acquisition
Acquires AllyO, a recruiting chatbot startup
HireVue acquired AllyO, a Palo Alto-based conversational-AI recruiting chatbot company, integrating its ~70-person team. Purchase price was not disclosed.
techtarget.com - Milestone
Discontinues facial/visual analysis in AI assessments
HireVue removed the facial-expression ("visual") analysis component from its algorithmic candidate assessments in March 2020, disclosing the change roughly a year later. CEO Kevin Parker said internal research showed language analysis had become more predictive and the feature "wasn't worth the concern it was causing." The company continued to record video but stopped scoring facial expressions.
shrm.org - Acquisition
The Carlyle Group completes majority investment in HireVue
The Carlyle Group closed its majority investment in HireVue, funded via the $18.5B Carlyle Partners VII fund. Prior investors Sequoia Capital, TCV and Granite Ventures, together with HireVue management, retained minority stakes; deal value was not disclosed.
carlyle.com - Funding
Carlyle Group agrees to become majority investor
HireVue announced that The Carlyle Group had signed an agreement to become its new majority investor, with the deal expected to close in subsequent weeks. Goldman Sachs advised HireVue.
prnewswire.com - Milestone
EPIC files FTC complaint over AI hiring assessments
The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission alleging HireVue's AI-scored video-interview assessments were an unfair and deceptive trade practice. HireVue maintained it had not violated any laws; no FTC enforcement action against the company has been reported.
fortune.com - Funding
Series E — $45M led by Technology Crossover Ventures
HireVue closed a $45M Series E round led by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), with continued participation from Sequoia Capital, Granite Ventures, Investor Growth Capital, Peterson Ventures and Rose Park Advisors, to fund its "Team Acceleration" software.
venturebeat.com - Funding
Series D — $25M led by Sequoia Capital
HireVue raised a $25M Series D round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Kickstart Fund and existing investors; Sequoia's Mickey Arabelovic joined the board. The company had 140 employees and 300+ enterprise customers at the time.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Series C — $17M plus debt facility, $22M new funding
HireVue raised a $17M Series C round led by Investor Growth Capital, plus an expanded debt facility, for $22M in total new funding — bringing its cumulative funding to $28M.
techcrunch.com
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