Layoff
May 2024TechCrunch reported that SeekOut, then valued at approximately $1.2 billion, laid off about 30% of its workforce. GeekWire separately reported another round of cuts around the same period.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Overview
SeekOut is a privately held AI talent platform that helps enterprises source, screen, engage, hire, grow, and redeploy talent. Its products combine AI-powered recruiting workflows, talent intelligence, internal mobility, and agentic recruiting services.
Primary product
SeekOut Recruit, an AI recruiting platform for sourcing, screening, rediscovery, and candidate engagement; the company also offers SeekOut Spot, an agentic AI recruiting service.
Founded
2017
Headquarters
1110 112th Ave NE, Bellevue, Washington 98004, United States
Team size
51-200
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
HR technology / talent intelligence / recruiting software
Offices
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Bangalore, India
Business model
B2B enterprise SaaS
Per-seat software subscriptions
Usage- and volume-based pricing
Managed recruiting services
Outcome- or role-based recruiting services
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Sean Thompson
Chief Executive Officer; appointed effective 2026-05-04
Anoop Gupta
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of the Board
Aravind Bala
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
John Tippett
Co-Founder and Chief Client Officer
Bala Vishwanath
Chief Marketing Officer
Madhan Sivakumar
SVP, Engineering & Product
Devon Butterfield
VP, Sales
Nancy McBee
VP, Finance
Senthil Arumugam
Global Head of Customer Success
Kerry McDonald
VP, Human Resources
Founders
Vikas Manocha
Co-Founder; historical engineering leadership role reported by third-party company directories
Work & culture
Company materials emphasize a people-first, collaborative, inclusive, curious, and impact-oriented culture. Engineering roles emphasize ownership, frequent shipping, customer contact, pragmatic problem-solving, scalable systems, and measurable impact. The company operates from Bellevue and Bangalore, with most roles hybrid or in-office and select remote positions.
Work style
Hybrid
Visa sponsorship
No
Compensation
Public job postings indicate role-specific U.S. base-salary bands, including approximately $90,000-$120,000 for an AI Solutions Engineer and $130,960-$170,250 for a Senior Software Engineer. Postings state that compensation considers skills, experience, market data, and internal equity. At least one U.S. posting explicitly states that the role requires work authorization and is not eligible for sponsorship.
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, HSA and FSA options
100% employer-paid HDHP reported for U.S. employees
401(k) match and regional retirement programs
Stock options
Flexible PTO and company-paid holidays
Paid parental leave
Mental-health, employee-assistance, and telehealth programs
Home-office, education, wellness, and learning stipends
Transportation and parking subsidies
Daily lunches, snacks, beverages, and wellness-room access at the office
Product & market
Pricing
Recruit Core is publicly listed at $179 per month billed monthly or $149 per month when billed annually upfront ($1,788 per year). Team and enterprise Recruit plans are custom-priced, generally based on seats, usage, modules, and volume. SeekOut Spot is custom-priced by role, search, contractor, or outcome and is marketed as requiring no annual commitment.
Differentiators
- —Search across more than 1 billion candidate profiles plus ATS, employee, and alumni data
- —Combines sourcing, inbound applicant evaluation, screening, outreach, rediscovery, and talent-market intelligence
- —Deep technical sourcing signals from GitHub, publications, patents, and public professional data
- —Diversity and hard-to-find-talent search capabilities
- —Agentic AI recruiting service, SeekOut Spot, combining AI agents with expert recruiters
- —Claims to deliver interview-ready candidates in approximately 14 days and at about 70% lower cost than traditional agencies
- —SeekOut MCP integrates recruiting workflows into compatible AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot
- —Enterprise security positioning, including SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance
Technology
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
Agentic AI workflows
Semantic and Boolean search
Natural-language processing
GitHub repository and contribution analysis
C#/.NET
Node.js
React
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Azure Cosmos DB
Microsoft Azure
APIs and microservices
CI/CD and DevOps
Claude by Anthropic
ChatGPT
Cloudflare
Salesforce
Customers
Microsoft
DocuSign
Sony
Thomson Reuters
Atlassian
Roblox
Discord
Canva
Splunk
Apollo
SAIC
Pfizer
1Password
Expedia
Qualtrics/The New York Times Company references in company materials
Competitors
LinkedIn Recruiter
hireEZ
Gem
Findem
Loxo
Eightfold AI
SeekOut alternatives in talent intelligence and sourcing
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $17.2 million annually according to Exa's company dataset; other third-party estimates range from roughly $17 million to $50 million, so confidence is low.
Estimated monthly visits
21.7K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Signals & risks
Other
Apr 2026Leadership transition announced: Sean Thompson was named CEO effective May 4, 2026, while co-founder Anoop Gupta moved to Executive Chairman. Such a transition is material for governance and operating strategy, although the announcement does not characterize it as a distress event.
SourceLatest news
SeekOut · Jun 2026
SeekOut announced a ChatGPT app intended to let users describe a role and run recruiting workflows conversationally before handing off to the full product.
SeekOut · May 2026
SeekOut announced MCP support, allowing users to access recruiting workflows from compatible AI assistants and search more than 1 billion profiles.
Business Wire · Apr 2026
SeekOut announced Sean Thompson as CEO effective May 4, 2026. Co-founder Anoop Gupta became Executive Chairman, while co-founder Aravind Bala continued as CTO.
SeekOut · Dec 2025
SeekOut said it ranked No. 152 overall and No. 4 among Pacific Northwest companies, citing 529% growth from 2021 through 2024.
TechCrunch · May 2024
TechCrunch reported a reduction of approximately 30% of SeekOut's workforce, a material risk and operating signal following the company's 2022 growth and $1.2 billion valuation.
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