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HiringCafe lands $6.8M to fix the broken job hunt with AI talent agent

The modern job search has devolved into a notoriously soul-crushing endeavor. Candidates fire hundreds of resumes into the void. They navigate an endless stream of expired ‘ghost jobs’. And they compete against automated mass-application bots for a fraction of the actual open roles.

It’s a frustrating, high-friction loop. Legacy job boards, built primarily around employer advertising models, have done little to solve it.

Now, a startup born from a viral spreadsheet is aiming to rebuild the job hunt from the ground up.

HiringCafe, an agentic job discovery platform, announced that it has raised $6.8 million in pre-seed funding. The funding will expand its real-time career search engine. Spark Capital led the round. Nonfiction Capital, Silicon Gardens, and strategic angel investors hailing from legacy incumbents ZipRecruiter and Indeed participated.

Alongside the funding, the company is taking the wraps off its new AI Talent Agent. It is a 100% free...

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