Peoplebox Inc.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2018CEO / Founder
Abhinav ChughEmployees
11-50Funding
Seed — $1.6MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.5/10Website
www.peoplebox.ai/
Profile updated
About Peoplebox Inc.
Peoplebox Inc. was founded in 2018 by Abhinav Chugh and Alagu Muthuraman and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Bengaluru, India, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The company builds an AI-native talent management platform serving HR and people operations teams across technology, retail, logistics, and hospitality sectors.
The platform consolidates OKR and goal tracking, performance reviews, continuous feedback, employee engagement surveys, career development, and compensation planning into a single product. Its AI recruiting module, Nova, conducts voice and video screening interviews, coding assessments, and onboarding conversations. As of 2025, Peoplebox serves more than 500 companies and reports 100,000 employees managed through its platform.
The company participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch and has raised approximately .6 million in total funding across two rounds, with backing from Y Combinator, Fundamental Ventures, Mars Shot Ventures, and Pioneer Fund. As of early 2025, the team comprised approximately 35 employees.
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Products by Peoplebox Inc.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Peoplebox Inc. competes with, and how they differ.
Lattice is a performance-management and OKR platform aimed at mid-market/enterprise HR teams, competing directly with Peoplebox's goals and reviews product but without Peoplebox's AI interviewer.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Culture Amp pairs performance reviews and OKRs with a survey-heavy employee-engagement and analytics focus, overlapping with Peoplebox's talent-management side rather than its recruiting side.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedParadox.ai (Olivia) is a conversational AI recruiting assistant built for high-volume, frontline hiring, the closest match to Peoplebox's Nova AI interviewer though aimed at a different hiring segment.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Greenhouse is a structured applicant-tracking system built around interview kits and scorecards for recruiter-led hiring, competing with Peoplebox's recruiting workflow but not automating the interview itself the way Nova does.
Eightfold AI sells an enterprise AI talent-intelligence platform for skills-based matching and internal mobility, overlapping with Peoplebox's newer AI talent-management positioning at a higher enterprise price point.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Peoplebox Inc.'s history, with sources.
- Launch
Launches Nova, an AI-native interviewer
Peoplebox launched Nova, described as its most human-like AI teammate, which runs two-way voice/video pre-screen calls, first-round interviews with live coding rounds and proctoring, and produces decision-ready candidate reports.
ycombinator.com - Launch
Launches OKR & performance platform for hypergrowth companies
Peoplebox launched its OKR and performance management platform on Y Combinator Launch, offering a single dashboard to track strategic goals, initiatives, and red flags in real time.
ycombinator.com - Funding
Accepted into Y Combinator Summer 2022 (S22) batch
Peoplebox joined Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch, receiving YC's standard early-stage investment.
ycombinator.com - Founded
Founded by Abhinav Chugh and Alagu M
Peoplebox was founded in 2018 by Abhinav Chugh (previously co-founder of VideoCrisp and Waybiz) and Alagu M, later going on to build an AI-native talent platform used by 500+ companies.
ycombinator.com
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