Layoff
Nov 2022Gem laid off about 100 employees, roughly one-third of its workforce, amid a slowdown in hiring and weaker macro conditions.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
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
1 Post St, 18th floor, San Francisco, CA 94104, United States
550 Kearny St, San Francisco, CA 94108, United States
Sofia, Bulgaria
Business model
B2B SaaS
enterprise software
subscription software
Funding
Stage
Series C
Total raised
$148.1M
Latest round
Series C · Sep 2021
Latest amount
$100M
People & investors
Leadership
CEO and Co-Founder
Chief Technology Officer
CFO & COO
Senior Director of Sales
Head of Marketing
Founders
Co-founder
Work & culture
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
Highly competitive salary and equity
20+5 paid days off
17 paid holidays including company wellness days
Additional health insurance
Learning and development budget
Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
New parent perks
Flexible return-to-work support
Product & market
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
- —AI-first all-in-one recruiting platform
- —Consolidates ATS, CRM, sourcing, scheduling, analytics, and fraud detection
- —Searches 800M+ profiles
- —Ranks applicants with explainable AI
- —Automates fraud detection for inbound applications
- —Helps teams rediscover and nurture prior candidates
- —Designed to replace 5+ point tools
- —Built around full-funnel recruiting context and benchmark data
Technology
React
GraphQL
TypeScript
Python
PostgreSQL
SQL
Stripe
Salesforce Revenue Cloud
dbt
Pytorch
TensorFlow
Elasticsearch
Marketo
6sense
Pendo
Looker
Snowflake
LinkedIn Ads
Gainsight
Clari
Customers
Anthropic
DoorDash
Figma
Procore
Vercel
GitLab
Asana
Peloton
Shopify
Cisco Meraki
Hinge Health
MongoDB
Twilio
Slack
Coinbase
Competitors
Greenhouse
Lever
Ashby
Workday
iCIMS
SuccessFactors
SmartRecruiters
Beamery
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$10M-$20M (LinkedIn estimate; third-party estimates vary higher)
Estimated monthly visits
1.6M
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Signals & risks
Layoff
Aug 2023CEO Steve Bartel said Gem reduced the team by approximately 70 employees due to challenging macroeconomic conditions and weaker demand for recruiting software.
SourceLatest news
Gem 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.
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