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Searchlight Raises $17M Series A Round, Launches Talent Intelligence Platform To Help Companies Improve Quality Of Hire With Behavioral Data And Prescriptive Analytics

Dec 20, 2021•over 3 years ago

Amount Raised

$17 Million

Round Type

series a

San Francisco

Description

Searchlight, a talent intelligence platform powered by hard data that measures the soft skills that can make or break quality of hire, announced today that it has closed a Series A funding round of $17 million led by Founders Fund with participation from Accel, Shasta Ventures, Kapor Capital, Operator Collective, and prominent angel investors including current and former Heads of People and Talent at companies like Airbnb, Atlassian, Coda, Confluent, and Plaid. Lead investor, Founders Fund General Partner Keith Rabois, has also joined Searchlight's board.

Company Information

Company

Searchlight

Location

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Searchlight is a talent intelligence platform that gives companies the ability to measure and improve quality of hire. Searchlight connects candidate reference and self-assessment data to post-hire outcomes, creating a powerful hiring and retention engine that provides prescriptive insights. By creating a system that pulls employee outcome data back into the recruiting process, Searchlight helps companies hire with data and science to build a stronger workforce. Founded in 2018 by twin sisters Anna and Kerry Wang, Searchlight has raised a total of $20 million of seed and Series A funding. Learn more at Searchlight.ai

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