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§ Private Profile · San Francisco, CA, USA
All-in-one recruiting platform that streamlines end-to-end hiring with ATS, CRM, and advanced analytics for high-growth companies.
Ashby has raised $142.5M across 6 funding rounds.
Key people at Ashby.
Ashby was founded in 2018 by Benjamin Encz (Founder) and Abhik Pramanik (Co-Founder & VP of Engineering).
Ashby has raised $142.5M in total across 6 funding rounds.
Ashby is a San Francisco-based software company that provides an all-in-one recruiting platform combining applicant tracking, candidate relationship management, interview scheduling, and advanced analytics. The enterprise software-as-a-service business operates with a remote-first workforce of approximately 110 employees distributed across multiple international markets. Currently, the platform serves a rapidly expanding global user base of over 2,900 corporate customers while maintaining a strong 135% year-over-year growth rate. The organization has secured significant venture capital backing to scale its internal operations, including a recent $50 million Series D funding round supported by prominent investors such as Y Combinator and F-Prime Capital. Its talent acquisition technology is heavily utilized by major high-growth technology companies, featuring notable enterprise clients like OpenAI, Shopify, and Figma. Ashby was officially founded in 2018 by software engineers Benjamin Encz and Abhik Pramanik.
Key people at Ashby.
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform designed to empower high-growth companies and ambitious hiring teams by streamlining the entire recruiting process with advanced analytics and AI-driven automation. It integrates applicant tracking (ATS), candidate relationship management (CRM), sourcing, scheduling, and reporting into a single platform, enabling structured, efficient, and data-driven hiring workflows. Ashby serves startups to enterprises, addressing the complexity and competitiveness of modern talent acquisition by improving candidate experience, hiring team productivity, and diversity outcomes while providing real-time visibility and custom insights[1][2][3].
Founded in 2018 by Benji and Abhik, who experienced firsthand the limitations of existing ATS tools while scaling engineering teams, Ashby emerged from extensive interviews with over 100 talent leaders and recruiters at high-growth companies. The founders identified a growing shift toward recruiting operations as a strategic function and built Ashby to meet the needs of operationally minded, ambitious hiring teams. Early traction came from customers who saw dramatic improvements in recruiting efficiency and candidate experience, validating Ashby’s integrated and analytics-focused approach[4][5][6].
Ashby rides the trend of increasing sophistication in talent acquisition, where recruiting is evolving into a strategic, data-driven discipline known as recruiting operations. The timing is critical as competition for talent intensifies and companies seek scalable, integrated solutions that leverage AI to reduce manual work and bias. Ashby’s platform addresses market demands for better visibility, automation, and candidate experience, influencing how startups and enterprises build world-class hiring functions. Its focus on analytics and operational customization positions it as a key enabler in the digital transformation of recruiting[4][5].
Looking ahead, Ashby is poised to deepen its AI capabilities and expand its footprint among ambitious, operationally minded hiring teams across industries. Trends such as AI-driven decision support, diversity and inclusion analytics, and seamless candidate engagement will shape its evolution. Ashby’s influence is likely to grow as it continues to empower companies to build strategic, efficient recruiting functions that provide competitive advantage in talent acquisition. Its integrated, data-centric approach aligns well with the future of recruiting technology, making it a platform to watch in the coming years[2][4][5].
Ashby has raised $142.5M across 6 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $50.0M Series D in July 2025.
Ashby was founded in 2018 by Benjamin Encz (Founder) and Abhik Pramanik (Co-Founder & VP of Engineering).
Ashby has raised $142.5M in total across 6 funding rounds.
Ashby's investors include Alkeon Capital, Bee Partners, Blue Bear Capital, Contrary Capital, Gaingels, General Catalyst, Greylock, Indeed.com, LGF, Next Play Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Sequoia Capital.
