The Series A round was led by Shine Capital with backing from Ada Ventures, Seek Investments, GSV, and NFX.
"Our users started regularly describing Gizmo as a game and telling us they'd never been able to study so much before because they'd usually get distracted and go on TikTok instead, but that this wasn't happening when they used Gizmo."
IvyCap Ventures led the Series A round to support headcount growth and European expansion for the artificial intelligence platform.
"Recruiting has been stuck in search interfaces and fragmented tools for two decades. Agents change the interface entirely. Instead of navigating software, you simply tell an AI what role you want to hire for and the system executes the entire workflow. We are building systems that collaborate and make decisions, not just tools that display information."
The seed round was led by Alstin Capital with backing from Backed, Love Ventures, and existing investors.
"Round was started after the founders saw both sides of the problem first-hand. Incumbents were too slow and constrained to evolve, while challengers built powerful but isolated tools. Nothing connected, leaving businesses to manage money across fragmented systems. With AI now able to execute workflows end to end, Round was built to unify it into a single system"