Humanly

Humanly
Humanly
  • Headquarters

    Seattle, WA
  • Founded

    2018
  • CEO / Founder

    Prem Kumar
  • Employees

    11-50
  • Funding

    Series B — $52M
  • Products

    1 product listed
  • Avg. AI Score

    7.2/10

Profile updated

Products
1
Avg AI Score
7.2/10
Founded
2018
Funding
$52M
About Humanly

Humanly is an AI-powered recruiting automation company founded in 2019 and co-headquartered in Seattle, WA and Sacramento, CA. The company was co-founded by Prem Kumar (CEO) and builds software designed to reduce manual work in high-volume talent acquisition workflows.

Humanly's primary products include an AI Recruiter and a Talent CRM that automate candidate engagement, screening, scheduling, and interviewing via conversational AI. The platform is aimed at mid-market and enterprise employers looking to accelerate hiring pipelines, with the company claiming teams can hire up to eight times faster using its tools.

Humanly is backed by a group of investors including Y Combinator, Zeal Capital Partners, Spark Growth Ventures, Moneta Ventures, Basecamp Fund, Liquid 2 Ventures, Tres Monos Capital, and TMD Ventures. The company participated in Y Combinator, which places its earliest funding in the seed stage. Specific total funding figures have not been publicly disclosed.

Specialties
Recruiting AutomationConversational AICandidate ScreeningInterview SchedulingTalent CRMHigh-Volume HiringNatural Language Processing
Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Total Raisedest.
$52M
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Total Raised over time
$5.3M(Sep 15, 2021, est.)$18M(Jun 15, 2023, est.)$24M(May 7, 2025, est.)$52M(Apr 8, 2026, est.)
Products by Humanly

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

How Our Review Panel Scores Humanly

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Humanly's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 2.0 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

The Domain Strategist
7.8
The Domain Practitioner
7.8
The Decision Maker
7.6
The Power User
7.6
The Skeptic
6.8
The Finance Lead
5.8

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

Competitive Landscape

Who Humanly competes with, and how they differ.

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Paradox.ai7.7/10

Paradox's "Olivia" assistant is SMS/chat-first and concentrated almost entirely on high-volume hourly and frontline hiring (retail, restaurants, healthcare, logistics) for large enterprise brands like Chipotle and 7-Eleven -- the same high-volume segment Humanly targets, but at greater enterprise scale.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
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HireVue7.5/10

HireVue centers on skills-validated assessments ("Virtual Job Tryouts") and structured, EEOC-oriented video interviewing for hourly, professional, and campus hiring at large enterprises, while Humanly's AI video interviewer (launched July 2025) is newer and built around speed/automation rather than psychometric skills validation.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
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Eightfold AI7.6/10

Eightfold's AI is built around a skills-based talent-intelligence graph spanning both external hiring and internal mobility/workforce planning for large enterprises -- a broader, more analytics-heavy scope than Humanly's screening-and-scheduling focus for high-volume roles.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Phenom logo
Phenom7.6/10

Phenom's platform is built around the candidate/employee "experience" layer -- personalized career sites, CRM, and chatbot engagement -- across the full talent lifecycle for large enterprises, whereas Humanly is narrower, concentrating on screening automation and interview scheduling.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Greenhouse logo
Greenhouse

Greenhouse is a system-of-record ATS built for structured, enterprise hiring processes; Humanly instead layers AI screening, scheduling, and (via its 2024-2025 acquisitions of Teamable, Sprockets, Qualifi, and HourWork) sourcing and onboarding tools on top of, or as a lighter alternative to, a traditional ATS.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Humanly's history, with sources.

  1. Acquisition

    Acquired Anthill

    Acquired employee-engagement platform Anthill to add post-hire engagement capabilities; terms not disclosed. Anthill continues to operate as a separate platform.

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  2. Funding

    $25M Series B

    Raised a $25M Series B from SEEK Investments, Drive Capital, Zeal Capital Partners and Converge, bringing total funding to $52M; CEO Prem Kumar described a shift toward delivering pre-vetted, ready-to-hire job seekers on demand.

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  3. Acquisition

    Acquired Sprockets, Qualifi and HourWork

    Acquired three recruiting-technology companies -- Sprockets, Qualifi, and HourWork -- in one move to expand its AI hiring platform; terms not disclosed. Company reported roughly 250,000 candidate interviews per month, over 100 customers, and revenue tripling in 2025.

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  4. Launch

    Launched AI video interviewer

    Unveiled an agentic AI video interviewer that screens candidates automatically and gives recruiters scores and advancement recommendations.

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  5. Funding

    $7M "momentum round"

    Raised a $7M round from Drive Capital, Y Combinator, Zeal Capital Partners, Pack Ventures and others, taking total funding to $24M; CEO Prem Kumar said the round capitalized on momentum (revenue up 3x year-over-year) rather than a funding need.

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  6. Acquisition

    Acquired Teamable

    Acquired recruiting-technology company Teamable to add sourcing and candidate-engagement tools to its AI hiring platform; terms not disclosed. Teamable CEO Matthew Raymond became Humanly VP of Product.

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  7. Funding

    $12M raise

    Raised $12M, bringing total funding to nearly $18M as the company expanded its AI screening-automation product.

    geekwire.com
  8. Funding

    $4.3M raise led by Zeal Capital Partners

    Raised $4.3M (reported as "$4.2M" in the headline) led by Zeal Capital Partners, with Spark Growth Ventures, Basecamp Fund, Moneta Ventures and angel investors; brought total funding to $5.3M.

    geekwire.com
  9. Funding

    $800K seed funding

    Raised $800,000 from TMD Ventures (led by DocuSign co-founder Tom Gonser) and angel investors including Gusto CFO Mike Dinsdale, amid pandemic-driven demand for hiring automation.

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  10. Milestone

    Joined Y Combinator (Winter 2020 batch)

    Humanly went through Y Combinator, described at the time as an AI startup automating job-candidate screening and Q&A for high-applicant-volume employers.

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  11. Founded

    Humanly founded in Seattle

    Founded in August 2018 by Prem Kumar (CEO), Andrew Gardner, and Bryan Leptich.

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