SeekOut

About SeekOut

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by SeekOut

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

SeekOutAI HR & Recruiting

Agentic AI recruiting platform for sourcing, screening, and engaging candidates at scale

From $149/mo7.3/10

Competitive Landscape

Who SeekOut competes with, and how they differ.

LinkedIn7.6/10

LinkedIn Talent Solutions (Recruiter) is the incumbent seat SeekOut is bought against or alongside: it searches first-party, self-reported member profiles and delivers InMail inside the same network whose public profile data SeekOut also aggregates. SeekOut differentiates on external signals LinkedIn does not hold, such as GitHub activity, patents, publications and security-clearance indicators.

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hireEZ

The closest head-to-head sourcing tool: Boolean plus semantic search over roughly 500M aggregated public profiles with built-in email, SMS and LinkedIn outreach sequences. hireEZ sells self-serve seats from a few hundred dollars a month, while SeekOut is an annual, 3-seat-minimum enterprise contract (roughly $20K median ACV) that adds internal-mobility and workforce-analytics modules hireEZ does not ship.

Eightfold7.6/10

Operates a level above pure sourcing: a deep-learning talent graph used for workforce planning, internal mobility and candidate matching across the full employee lifecycle, sold as an enterprise suite with HCM/ATS partnerships such as Oracle Recruiting. SeekOut competes on external search depth for technical, clinical and cleared talent rather than predictive career modelling.

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Beamery7.4/10

A talent CRM and lifecycle platform whose strength is nurturing, segmenting and re-engaging candidates already in the company database rather than discovering new external profiles. Enterprises commonly run Beamery for pipeline management and SeekOut for the sourcing step that feeds it.

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Company Timeline

Key milestones in SeekOut's history, with sources.

1. June 2026Launch

   SeekOut made available directly inside ChatGPT

   SeekOut shipped availability inside ChatGPT via its MCP integration, letting recruiters search and evaluate candidates across SeekOut's 1B+ profile index from the AI assistant they already use.

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2. Apr 16, 2026Milestone

   Sean Thompson named CEO; Anoop Gupta becomes Executive Chairman

   SeekOut named enterprise software veteran Sean Thompson, previously president and CEO of NAVEX, as chief executive officer effective May 4, 2026. Co-founder Anoop Gupta, CEO since the company's founding, moved to executive chairman of the board.

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3. February 2026Launch

   Sam AI interviewing integrated into SeekOut Recruit

   SeekOut added Sam AI interviewing to its Recruit platform, providing structured, rubric-based AI screening with asynchronous candidate interviews for inbound applicant evaluation.

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4. November 2025Milestone

   Ranked #152 on Deloitte 2025 Technology Fast 500

   SeekOut placed #152 overall and #4 among Pacific Northwest companies on Deloitte's 2025 North America Technology Fast 500, citing 529% revenue growth from 2021 to 2024.

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5. February 2025Launch

   Launch of SeekOut Spot, agentic AI recruiting service

   SeekOut introduced Spot, an agentic AI recruiting service that pairs autonomous sourcing, outreach and screening agents with SeekOut staff recruiters, opening early access ahead of general release later in 2025.

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6. August 2023Launch

   SeekOut Assist reaches general availability

   After a limited early-access period, SeekOut made Assist generally available to customers, taking recruiters from job description to qualified candidates within the core platform.

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7. Apr 4, 2023Launch

   Launch of SeekOut Assist, GPT-powered recruiting assistant

   SeekOut introduced SeekOut Assist, a generative AI capability built on OpenAI GPT models that turns a job description into a qualified candidate list and drafts personalized outreach messages.

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8. Jan 12, 2022Funding

   Series C - $115M led by Tiger Global at $1.2B valuation

   SeekOut announced $115 million in Series C funding led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Founders Circle Capital, Madrona Venture Group and Mayfield, valuing the company at $1.2 billion. SeekOut reported more than 1,000 customers and over 3x ARR growth since its Series B nine months earlier.

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9. Mar 9, 2021Funding

   Series B - $65M led by Tiger Global at ~$500M valuation

   SeekOut raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Madrona Venture Group and Mayfield, at a valuation of roughly $500 million. The company said it had about 500 customers and had grown subscription revenue more than tenfold since its 2019 Series A.

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10. May 14, 2019Funding

    Series A - $6M led by Madrona Venture Group

    SeekOut announced $6 million in Series A funding led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from existing investor Mayfield. The company reported more than 75 enterprise customers across technology, defense, finance, pharma and consumer goods at the time.

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11. 2017Founded

    SeekOut founded in Bellevue, Washington

    SeekOut was founded in 2017 by Anoop Gupta, a former Microsoft corporate vice president and technical assistant to Bill Gates, together with co-founders Aravind Bala, John Tippett and Vikas Manocha. The company is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

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