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Sprout

Backed byScale Venture Partners
Total raised$65.0M
StageSeries B
Hiring pace33 roles / 90d
Founded2014
Team size51-200
HQCharlotte, North Carolina
IndustriesIT Services and IT Consulting

About Sprout

The company operates a marketplace that modernizes the hiring market and is described as the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace connecting companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents. Paraform’s mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world. It was founded by John and Jeff in 2022 after they tried to recruit each other, and it is backed by leading investors including Scale, Felicis, a*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, and the founders of YouTube, Instacart, and Canva. The company partners with industry leaders such as xAI, Palantir, Cognition, Decagon, Shopify, and Applied Intuition to hire world-class talent, and it has seen rapid growth, with revenue reportedly 8×-ing last year. Paraform connects companies with a network of specialized recruiters to fill their hardest roles.

Open positions · 33

Company at a glance

Location
Charlotte, North Carolina
Websitesproutup.com
LinkedInLinkedIn

Top Benefits

  • Premium healthcare/health insurance is provided.
  • Unlimited PTO is offered.
  • All food and transportation are compensated for employees.
  • Gym membership is provided as a benefit.
  • Free bike is offered as an employee perk.

Investors

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About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Operations69%
  • Sales17%
  • Engineering6%
  • Other Specialized5%
  • Product & Design1%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.University of California, Berkeley
  2. 2.Stanford University
  3. 3.San Jose State University
  4. 4.University of California, Davis
  5. 5.University of California, Los Angeles

Team Worked At

  • OpenAI
  • Google
  • Microsoft
  • Amazon
  • Meta

Culture & values

We work hard and enjoy being together in person, and we are transparent about our work ethic and expectations to enable extreme ownership in building at a pace that is unmatched.

We are customer-obsessed and always start with the customer first; we are the customer support team.

We ship fast and break things, valuing rapid development and experimentation over perfection.

We take care of each other, and we trust each other to enable everyone to do their best work.

Funding History

Cumulative Funding

Life at Sprout

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