Layoff
Oct 2025Third-party reporting said Handshake eliminated approximately 100 roles, about 15% of the U.S. workforce, during a refounding around AI; the company reportedly provided severance and equity-exercise accommodations.
SourceCareer platform connecting students with employers.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 2, 2026
Overview
Handshake (Stryder Corp.) is a privately held career-technology company founded in 2014. Its current positioning is a career network for the AI economy: a three-sided marketplace connecting knowledge workers, educational institutions, and employers for career discovery, hiring, skills development, and AI-training work. The official site reports 25M knowledge workers, 1,600+ institutions, and 1M employers as of 2026-08-02.
Primary product
Handshake career network and marketplace, including student/alumni profiles, job and internship discovery, employer recruiting tools, university career-center software, and the newer Handshake AI expert-data/model-validation network.
Founded
2014
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States (225 Bush Street, Financial District).
Team size
Approximately 2,800–3,000 based on 2025–2026 third-party estimates; other directories report materially different figures, so an exact current count is unavailable.
Work style
Open Positions
130 jobs at Handshake
Machine Learning Engineer I, Network
On-siteEngineeringSan Francisco, CA3d ago
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