Metaview wants to eliminate the hassle of recruiting and speed up hiring after raising $60 million

Artificial intelligence recruiting software startup Metaview Labs Inc. said today the industry is ready for a “Claude Code moment” after the company closed $60 million in Series C financing.

The round was led by Insight Partners and included participation from GV, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Intrepid Growth Partners, Plural and Garuda Ventures. To date, the company has raised a total of $110 million.

Although Metaview is joining the agent AI bandwagon, it’s actually quite old as far as AI startups go. It was founded back in 2018 by former Uber Technologies Inc. and Palantir Technologies Inc. employees Siadhal Magos and Shahriar Tajbakhsh, who serve as CEO and chief technology officer, respectively.

In a blog post, Magos said that the role of software developers has evolved from writing code to orchestrating AI agents that do the main work for them, and he now predicts that recruiters will follow the same path. His startup has developed AI agents that automate much of the recruiting process, from creating the first job ads, to finding and screening candidates, reviewing their resumes and cover letters, and conducting initial interviews.

According to Magos, Metaview agents have conducted more than 6 million interviews so far. Once a candidate’s interview is complete, agents convert their answers into usable notes that human reviewers can review, allowing them to create a shortlist for in-person interviews. The interview questions themselves and the qualification criteria for the position are initially determined by people, he added.

There is an urgent need for automated recruitment, believes Magos. He points out that recruiting is “hard, arduous work” and uses minimal technology. Many companies will expand their recruiting teams during hiring peaks, only to dismantle them when they are no longer needed, but that is “expensive, ineffective and painful for everyone involved,” he said.

The current economic situation increases the urgency of automation. More people are looking for work and “applications per recruiter are up 412%,” Magos explained. “So recruiters spend their days processing massive queues of applications, searching profiles, writing outreach, scheduling screens, getting interview feedback, and moving information between systems.”

Metaview’s AI agents can automate all of this work, and that’s why more than 7,000 companies are already using them, Magos said. Some of its most prominent customers include companies like Deel, Affirm, and Replit Inc., which have managed to reduce their average time to hire by more than 75%.

In addition to today’s funding, Metaview is adding additional features to its agent recruiting platform. Most notable is fillmore, an autonomous recruiting agent capable of researching potential job candidates, creating target lists, generating personalized outreach emails, managing follow-up conversations, and scheduling meetings with prospects. It’s generally available today and runs entirely within Slack.

By using Fillmore to automate this work, “recruiting is always active while employees remain in control of the decisions that matter,” Magos argued.

Metaview is now in growth mode and has three main priorities. The first is to expand the platform to include even more agents who specialize in different aspects of the recruiting process. The second is the opening of the new office in New York City and the expansion of its team, which currently includes around 80 employees.

Magos said the company plans to employ more than 250 people by the end of next year, hiring for positions such as engineering, product, design and go-to-market. Presumably, its own agents will help automate much of this process.

Last but not least, Metaview wants to expand its 10x Recruiting program, which offers training in AI for recruiters. “The shift to agent recruiting requires new skills, not just new software,” Magos said. “The best teams of the next decade will be built by people who know how to use these tools well.”

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