CPA Practice Advisor · Apr 2025
Profiled Simplify’s origin story, usage scale, and product positioning as a personal job assistant.
Helping a billion people build their dream career
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Overview
Simplify is a job-search and application automation platform that helps candidates discover relevant roles, autofill applications, and get personalized career recommendations through its flagship product, Copilot.
Primary product
Copilot
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Job search / recruiting software
Business model
B2C subscription/software
B2B recruiting/employer products
freemium
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$4.2M
Latest round
Seed · Feb 2024
Latest amount
$3M
Feb 2024 · Craft Ventures
Mar 2021
Sep 2020 · SkyDeck Berkeley
People & investors
Leadership
Michael Yan
Co-Founder & CEO
Rushil Srivastava
Co-Founder
Ethan Horoschak
Co-Founder
Work & culture
Mission-driven and product-focused, with messaging centered on democratizing job search and making hiring more accessible.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
No public compensation ranges were found in primary sources; hiring and growth messaging suggests early-stage startup compensation may include equity, but this was not directly confirmed.
Product & market
Pricing
Public monetization details were not clearly disclosed; the company was still experimenting with monetization in public reporting.
Differentiators
- —One-click application autofill and job matching
- —Personalized career recommendations
- —Large job-seeker usage base and high application volume
- —Positioning as a private alternative to LinkedIn for candidates
- —Chrome extension workflow integrated into external job boards
Technology
Chrome extension
AI/ML
job scraping
resume parsing
autofill automation
Customers
Job seekers
Candidates applying to internships and early-career roles
Employers/recruiters using hiring tools
Competitors
LinkedIn
Indeed
Handshake
Teal
Huntr
Jobscan
Scale & contact
Estimated monthly visits
1.3M
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Mercury News · Apr 2025
Profile of CEO Michael Yan and Simplify’s job-search assistant, including the idea that AI is now effectively talking to AI in hiring.
Consumer Startups · Mar 2025
Detailed founder/playbook write-up describing Simplify’s monetization mix, growth tactics, and reported revenue/user scale.
LinkedIn post · Mar 2025
Michael Yan announced expansion of job listings to Ireland, Australia, Germany, and France.
Yahoo Finance / TechCrunch · Feb 2024
Reported Simplify’s $3M seed round led by Craft Ventures and described its AI-driven job search, autofill, and matching product.
Jobs and careers at Simplify
2 jobs at Simplify
Temp Job less fields
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco
1y ago
On-site
Full-time