Gem laid off about 100 employees, roughly one-third of its workforce, amid a slowdown in hiring and weaker macro conditions.
SourcePublic company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Gem is a San Francisco-based AI recruiting platform for talent acquisition teams. It combines sourcing, CRM, ATS, scheduling, analytics, and fraud detection into one system to help teams find, engage, and hire candidates faster with less tooling.
Primary product
AI-first all-in-one recruiting platform
Founded
2017
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
51-200
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Recruiting software / talent acquisition software
Offices
0 jobs at Gem
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Business model
Stage
Series C
Total raised
$148.1M
Latest round
Series C · Sep 2021
Latest amount
$100M
Leadership
CEO and Co-Founder
Chief Technology Officer
CFO & COO
Senior Director of Sales
Head of Marketing
Founders
Co-founder
Gem describes its culture as customer-focused, transparent, fast-moving, diverse, and ownership-oriented, with strong emphasis on autonomy, high EQ, and cross-functional collaboration.
Work style
Hybrid
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public job postings emphasize highly competitive salary and equity, plus benefits such as paid time off, holidays, health insurance, learning budgets, and parental leave. Exact salary bands were not publicly disclosed in the sources reviewed.
Benefits
Pricing
Public pages indicate a self-serve entry price starting at $135/month, while larger deployments appear to be sold as custom enterprise software.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$10M-$20M (LinkedIn estimate; third-party estimates vary higher)
Estimated monthly visits
1.6M
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Gem laid off about 100 employees, roughly one-third of its workforce, amid a slowdown in hiring and weaker macro conditions.
SourceCEO Steve Bartel said Gem reduced the team by approximately 70 employees due to challenging macroeconomic conditions and weaker demand for recruiting software.
SourceGem resource page · Jul 2026
Gem promoted an MCP webinar explaining how recruiting teams can use model context protocol to connect AI tools to recruiting workflows and data.
Gem blog · Jun 2026
Gem previewed GeMCP, its Model Context Protocol product, in beta and positioned it as secure, direct AI access to recruiting data, with a live customer session and summer launch timeline.
Gem blog · Apr 2026
Gem launched an AI fraud detection agent that evaluates inbound applications across multiple signals and highlights early customer results from early access.
Gem blog · Mar 2026
Gem said its AI products saw 10x revenue growth and 7x customer growth over the prior year, and highlighted expansion across sourcing, rediscovery, talent insights, and fraud detection.
Gem blog · Dec 2025
Gem said it earned 36 G2 badges and leadership placements across ATS, recruiting automation, CRM, talent intelligence, and diversity recruiting categories.