Gem
Gem helps talent acquisition teams hire with remarkable speed and efficiency. Our platform transforms recruiting into a strategic, data-driven function and gives every part of the organization the tools to drive results and showcase their impact. With Gem, teams can automate and personalize candidate communication, unify all recruiting touchpoints into a single system, and get usable data across the entire hiring process. It's why over 1,200 industry leaders, including Wayfair, Dropbox, Cintas, Robinhood, and UnitedHealth, trust Gem to fuel their growth. Users also recognize Gem as one of the highest-satisfaction products on G2 with a 4.8/5.0 rating. With funding from key investors such as, ICONIQ, Greylock, and Accel, Gem has recently been recognized with Unicorn status, with a $1.2B valuation — becoming one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies at its scale. And just as we strive to help our customers find great talent, we also invest in our own people and culture. We are proud of the culture we’ve built and have recently been recognized as: - The Breakout List, 2022 - Certified as a Great Place to work, 2022 - Y Combinator Top Companies, 2022 - Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area, 2022
Founding Year
2017
Headquarters
San Francisco
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United States
Sector(s)
SaaS
Funding State
Pre-Seed
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Series B+
Exited
Total Funding Amount
$148.12M
Funds that Investested
Liquid 2 Ventures
Led by investors including Joe Montana, Liquid 2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments.
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WndrCo
Founded by former Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and former Dropbox Head of Business Sujay Jaswa, WndrCo builds and invests, especially around the Future of Work, Security, and Consumer Technology.
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Y Combinator
Twice a year YC invests $500,000 per company in a large number of startups. They work intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.
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Accel
First partner to exceptional teams everywhere.
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Series A
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Greylock
Invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer, crypto, and enterprise software companies across all stages.
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Series A
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Meritech Capital
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Series A
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Arash Ferdowsi
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Investors that Investested
Daniel Levine
Partner, Accel
Daniel first joined Accel in 2010. Dan re-joined Accel after spending time at Dropbox, where he worked on the platform team. He helped open the platform to third-party developers and launched and managed many of the company’s developer-facing initiatives. Earlier, Dan co-founded Chartio, a Y Combinator-backed (S10) startup in the data visualization space, and prior to Chartio, worked on CrunchBase at TechCrunch.
Pre-Seed
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Series A
Series B+
Paul Graham
Founder, Y Combinator
Paul Graham is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first SaaS company, which in 1998 became Yahoo Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.
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Series B+
Michael Seibel
Managing Director, Early Stage and Group Partner, Y Combinator
Previously a co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv from 2007 2011 and the co-founder and CEO of Socialcam in 2012. Graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science.
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Jeffrey Katzenberg
Founding Partner, WndrCo
Jeffrey is an entertainment industry executive and entrepreneur, who throughout his career has repeatedly reshaped the media landscape. He led WndrCo’s investments in Airtable, Frame.io, Quibi, Vise, Placer.ai, NexHealth, Deel, and ID.me.
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Series B+
Sujay Jaswa
Founding Partner, WndrCo
Sujay is one of Silicon Valley’s leading business innovators, and oversees WndrCo’s investment and operating activities. He makes Ventures and Growth investments, and creates companies through Venture Buyouts. He serves as Chairman of Aura, Twingate, and Super Unlimited, and led WndrCo’s investments in Figma, 1Password, Databricks, Pango, Pilot, Rally, Zagat / The Infatuation, and other great companies.
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Series B+
ChenLi Wang
General Partner, WndrCo
ChenLi is one of Silicon Valley’s innovative leaders in building and scaling software businesses. Prior to joining WndrCo as a General Partner, he founded and led Dropbox’s business operations team and was a pioneer in building a freemium, product-led growth engine. ChenLi focuses on Ventures and Growth investments, and in creating companies through Venture Buyouts. He led WndrCo’s investments in Aura, Pango, Webflow, Modern Treasury, Mux, Pilot, Material Security, Bubble, Gem, and other great companies.
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