LinkedIn · May 2026
Hiring post stating both recruiter roles were based in London and describing Prism’s small-team, hiring-focused operating style.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Prism (formerly HireGlide) is a founder-led, AI-native recruiting agency that sources, engages, and screens candidates for employers; it also offers a free AI career advisor called Ray [YC][LinkedIn][YC Launch]. Public funding profiles conflict on the exact total, but current public data points to a Seed-backed company with YC participation and a small team.
Primary product
AI-native recruiting agency for candidate sourcing, engagement, and screening
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Staffing and Recruiting
Sub-industry
AI recruiting / HRTech
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
London, United Kingdom
Business model
managed recruiting agency
contingent placement fee
AI recruiting platform
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Sep 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Sep 2025 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Investors
Work & culture
Small, founder-led team; fast-moving and automation-first; emphasizes high-signal sourcing, recruiting workflow automation, and shipping its own internal tools.
Work style
Hybrid
Visa sponsorship
No
Compensation
Public recruiter-job postings show £50k-£80k base pay, plus 10-20% placement commission and 0.5%-1.0% equity; one aggregator renders the salary in USD, but the YC job page shows GBP.
Benefits
performance commission on placements (10-20%)
equity grants (0.5%-1.0%)
hybrid London role with remote option for the right person
Product & market
Pricing
$500 retainer to start a search, plus 15% of the placed candidate's first-year salary
Differentiators
- —AI-native agency workflow in Slack
- —proprietary people-search engine benchmarked at 89.6 on Public Sourcing Benchmark
- —search, outreach, screening, and admin automated with AI
- —candidate outreach across LinkedIn, email, and WhatsApp
- —ATS integrations
- —candidate-facing AI career advisor Ray
Technology
React
HTML
CSS
Supabase
Vercel
Anthropic
Slack
LinkedIn
WhatsApp
ATS integrations
Customers
employers
funded startups
growth-stage companies
corporate HR departments
recruitment agencies
finance firms
Competitors
Lessie
Gem
hireEZ
Toptal
Able Jobs
Career Hacker
Scale & contact
Latest news
Prism technical report · May 2026
Technical report claiming Prism scored 89.64 on the recruiting subset of PeopleSearchBench, ahead of the strongest published baseline.
EveryDev.ai · Apr 2026
Coverage of the rebrand from HireGlide to Prism and the company’s AI recruiting-agent positioning.
LinkedIn · Mar 2026
Company post announcing ATS integrations and describing how the product fits into recruiters' existing workflows.
Y Combinator
YC launch describing Prism as an AI-native recruiting agency, its Slack-based workflow, 15% success fee, and its claim to outperform benchmark baselines.
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