Phenom People, Inc.
Headquarters
Ambler, PAFounded
2010CEO / Founder
Mahe BayireddiEmployees
1001-5000Funding
Series D+ — $290MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.6/10Website
phenom.com/
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About Phenom People, Inc.
Phenom People, Inc. is a talent experience software company headquartered in Ambler, Pennsylvania, founded in 2010 by Mahe Bayireddi, Hari Bayireddi, and Brad Goldoor. The company develops a cloud-based platform marketed as the Intelligent Talent Experience platform, designed to serve multiple stakeholders in the talent lifecycle including candidates, recruiters, employees, and HR managers.
Phenom's core product suite includes tools for career site personalization, candidate relationship management, recruiter workflow automation, employee internal mobility, and manager analytics. The platform is used by enterprises across industries including retail, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing. Notable customers have included companies such as Rite Aid, Merck, and Siemens. The company competes in the talent acquisition and HR technology market alongside vendors such as Beamery, Eightfold AI, and Jobvite.
Phenom has raised approximately $290 million in total funding, including a $100 million Series D round in 2021 led by B Capital Group. The company has expanded through acquisitions, including the purchase of Tydy, an employee onboarding platform, in 2022, and Talentplus. Phenom employs roughly 1,500 to 2,000 people globally and maintains offices in the United States, India, and the Netherlands.
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Financials
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Products by Phenom People, Inc.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Phenom People, Inc. competes with, and how they differ.
The closest direct rival in AI talent-intelligence — deep-learning skills matching across the full talent lifecycle versus Phenom's career-site/CRM-first approach.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Talent-CRM specialist competing most directly on the candidate-nurture and career-site side of Phenom's platform.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedATS/hiring-CRM suite that overlaps with Phenom's recruiting workflows but lacks Phenom's talent-experience and analytics breadth.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Enterprise ATS-centric talent-acquisition platform; competes for the same enterprise TA budget with a more workflow/compliance-first orientation.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedConversational AI hiring assistant focused on high-volume, frontline recruiting — narrower but overlapping use case versus Phenom's broader TXM suite.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Phenom People, Inc.'s history, with sources.
- Acquisition
Acquired Included AI, an agentic people-analytics platform
Added AI-native workforce-analytics capabilities (organizational-health, attrition and hiring-bottleneck insights) to the Phenom platform.
businesswire.com - Acquisition
Acquired EDGE, a resource-planning platform for professional-services firms
Sixth acquisition in five years; added workforce/resource-planning tools for professional-services companies and global capability centers.
technical.ly - Acquisition
Acquired Tydy, an employee data and onboarding platform
Fifth acquisition for Phenom; added preboarding/onboarding workflows to its Intelligent Talent Experience platform. Followed earlier acquisitions of Talentcube (2021) and Tandemploy (2022).
unleash.ai - Funding
Series D — $100M led by B Capital Group, valuing Phenom at $1.4B
Made Phenom one of HR tech's newest unicorns; Dragoneer Investment Group, OMERS Growth Equity and GoldenArc Capital also participated.
forbes.com - Funding
Series C — $30M led by WestBridge Capital and AllianceBernstein, total funding to $61M
Existing investors AXA Venture Partners, Sierra Ventures, Omidyar Technology Ventures, Sigma Prime Ventures and Karlani Capital also participated.
globenewswire.com - Founded
Founded by Mahe Bayireddi, Hari Bayireddy and Brad Goldoor
Cofounded in 2010 by CEO Mahe Bayireddi with COO Hari Bayireddy and CPO Brad Goldoor to build an AI-powered talent experience platform.
forbes.com
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