iCIMS

About iCIMS

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by iCIMS

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

iCIMSAI HR & Recruiting

Enterprise recruiting software from applicant tracking to onboarding

Free7.2/10

How Our Review Panel Scores iCIMS

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed iCIMS's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.6 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 iCIMS competes with, and how they differ.

Workday

Workday sells recruiting as a module inside its HCM and finance suite, so it wins enterprise deals on single-vendor consolidation rather than depth of hiring functionality. iCIMS competes as an independent best-of-breed talent acquisition platform that integrates with whichever core HR system the customer already runs.

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SmartRecruiters7.1/10

The closest like-for-like rival: an independent enterprise talent acquisition suite spanning sourcing, CRM, applicant tracking and onboarding, sold into the same large-employer best-of-breed deals as iCIMS rather than as part of a wider HR suite.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

SAP

SAP SuccessFactors bundles recruiting into a full HCM suite sold largely into existing SAP enterprise accounts. iCIMS is bought as a specialist hiring platform and often sits alongside — or displaces the recruiting module of — a SuccessFactors core HR deployment.

Phenom People, Inc.7.6/10

Phenom leads with an AI talent experience layer — career sites, candidate CRM, recruitment marketing and internal mobility — which overlaps iCIMS Engage and Employer Branding directly. Phenom more often layers on top of a customer's existing ATS, whereas iCIMS sells the system of record itself.

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Greenhouse

Greenhouse built its position on structured hiring and interview scorecards for technology and mid-market employers and has since pushed upmarket into iCIMS' enterprise base. It is comparatively narrow on high-volume frontline hiring, where iCIMS has invested through the TextRecruit and Apli acquisitions.

Eightfold AI Inc7.6/10

Eightfold sells an AI talent intelligence layer for candidate matching, skills inference and internal mobility, competing for the same enterprise AI-in-hiring budget as iCIMS' native AI. It typically augments an incumbent applicant tracking system rather than replacing it.

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Company Timeline

Key milestones in iCIMS's history, with sources.

1. Sep 11, 2025Acquisition

   Acquires Apli to expand AI-powered frontline hiring

   iCIMS acquired Apli, an AI-powered recruitment automation company focused on frontline hiring through conversational AI over text, WhatsApp and web chat. Apli had been named one of Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Latin America.

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2. Oct 26, 2022Acquisition

   Acquires SkillSurvey for digital reference checking

   iCIMS acquired SkillSurvey, a pioneer in skills verification and digital reference checking used by more than 2,300 companies, adding patented automated reference checking and healthcare credentialing to the iCIMS Talent Cloud.

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3. Aug 22, 2022Funding

   TA Associates investment closes

   iCIMS, Vista Equity Partners and TA Associates announced the close of TA's investment, with Vista and TA partnering to accelerate global growth and product development. Susquehanna Growth Equity remained a shareholder. iCIMS then served more than 4,000 organisations, including CVS Health, Target and IBM, collectively employing over 34 million people.

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4. May 6, 2022Milestone

   Withdraws Form S-1 IPO registration

   iCIMS Holding LLC asked the SEC to withdraw the Form S-1 registration statement it had filed on August 19, 2021, stating it was no longer pursuing an initial public offering of its common stock at that time. The registration was never declared effective and no securities were sold under it.

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5. May 6, 2022Funding

   TA Associates to invest alongside Vista Equity Partners

   iCIMS announced that TA Associates would invest in the company alongside existing investor Vista Equity Partners, which first invested in 2018. Vista and TA said they would maintain equal economic ownership of iCIMS. Susquehanna Growth Equity, an investor since 2012, remained a shareholder. iCIMS then served more than 4,000 organisations.

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6. Mar 29, 2022Acquisition

   Acquires Candidate.ID, adding recruitment marketing automation

   iCIMS acquired Candidate.ID, a marketing automation platform built for talent acquisition that scores and nurtures candidate leads through automated campaigns, extending the company's recruitment marketing and CRM capabilities.

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7. Dec 14, 2020Acquisition

   Acquires Altru Labs for employee-generated video

   iCIMS acquired Altru Labs, a New York based mobile-first platform for employee-generated video storytelling used by Target, PwC and Intuit, adding interactive video content to its career site and employer branding products.

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8. Nov 17, 2020Acquisition

   Acquires EASYRECRUE, tripling its EMEA footprint

   iCIMS acquired EASYRECRUE, a European video interviewing and digital assessment provider serving nearly 400 customers. The deal tripled iCIMS' global footprint in EMEA to more than 100 employees in the region.

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9. Jun 18, 2019Acquisition

   Acquires Jibe for career sites and recruitment CRM

   iCIMS acquired Jibe Inc., a New York SaaS recruiting technology company founded in 2010 whose Google-optimised career sites, machine-learning candidate CRM and analytics were used by Johnson & Johnson, Siemens and Comcast.

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10. Sep 12, 2018Funding

    Vista Equity Partners investment closes

    Vista Equity Partners completed its investment in iCIMS on September 12, 2018, when the company served approximately 4,000 employers. Founder Colin Day remained CEO, and Susquehanna Growth Equity — an investor since 2012 with a follow-on in 2015 — stayed a shareholder and board member. Goldman Sachs advised iCIMS; Qatalyst advised Vista.

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11. Jan 8, 2018Acquisition

    Acquires TextRecruit, adding text and chat candidate engagement

    iCIMS acquired TextRecruit Inc., a candidate engagement platform using text messaging, live chat and AI that had grown to more than 400 customers since shipping its first product in 2015. TextRecruit continued to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary.

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12. 2000Founded

    iCIMS founded in Holmdel, New Jersey by Colin Day

    Colin Day founded the recruiting software company in Holmdel, New Jersey. Forbes lists iCIMS' founding year as 2000 and records Day as chief executive as of September 2018.

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