The only sustainable competitive advantage in the 21st century is your people. We've found a way to drive massive performance improvements in enterprises, while at the same time creating opportunity for people based on what they are able to do. With Koru Hire, you can screen and identify your top tier candidates with only a few clicks in a few seconds, versus days or weeks of resume reviews and phone screens.
We define your company's unique performance fingerprint, based on the Koru7™, those intangibles that matter most to performance: Grit, Rigor, Impact, Teamwork, Curiosity, Ownership, and Polish.
To put your unique performance fingerprint into action, we deliver Koru Hire, a fast, easy-to-use candidate screening and selection tool that quickly identifies your highest quality, most diverse group of top tier candidates from your applicant pool, no matter how many thousands of applicants you have.
We work with some of the world’s leading enterprises as well as innovative, high-growth companies across dozens of industries to find and develop the best talent to meet their needs. Our customers have seen 30-60% increases in high performing hires using Koru, with associated ROI in the millions per year.
If you're a talent acquisition professional who wants to be part of the exciting shift to predictive, data-driven hiring, we're here for you.
We define your company's unique performance fingerprint, based on the Koru7™, those intangibles that matter most to performance: Grit, Rigor, Impact, Teamwork, Curiosity, Ownership, and Polish.
To put your unique performance fingerprint into action, we deliver Koru Hire, a fast, easy-to-use candidate screening and selection tool that quickly identifies your highest quality, most diverse group of top tier candidates from your applicant pool, no matter how many thousands of applicants you have.
We work with some of the world’s leading enterprises as well as innovative, high-growth companies across dozens of industries to find and develop the best talent to meet their needs. Our customers have seen 30-60% increases in high performing hires using Koru, with associated ROI in the millions per year.
If you're a talent acquisition professional who wants to be part of the exciting shift to predictive, data-driven hiring, we're here for you.
Location: United States, Washington, Seattle
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $22.6M
Founded date: 2013
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | City Light... | citylight.... |
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 05.10.2017 | - | $3M | - |
| 29.01.2015 | Series A | $8M | - |
| 12.12.2013 | - | $4.35M | - |
Mentions in press and media 29
| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.01.2019 | Predictive hiring startup Koru sells business to two separate companies in unusual exit | Koru’s Kristen Hamilton takes home the Startup of the Year robot trophy at the 2015 GeekWire Awards. (GeekWire Photo) Seattle startup Koru launched in 2014 as a “bootcamp” platform that helped both employers find top entry level talent and ... |
| 11.01.2018 | Female Founders Conference Seattle: Speakers | We’re looking forward to hosting our first Female Founders Conference event of the year in Seattle on Feb 3. Sign up here by January 19. We’ll hear stories and fundraising advice from founders and investors, and three YC partners will hos... |
| 04.10.2017 | Koru raises $3M for predictive hiring platform that helps companies identify ideal candidates | Koru CEO Kristen Hamilton. Koru’s pivot seems to be working well so far. The Seattle startup just reeled in a $3 million round from mostly existing investors that was led by First Round Capital, pushing total funding to date to $15 million.... |
| 19.05.2017 | How AI Is Changing Your Job Hunt | A few years ago, Jason Freeman was confronted by a classic hiring challenge. The 10-person startup he had founded, an online commercial real estate service called 42Floors.com, was growing and needed to rapidly staff up. Suddenly, it seemed... |
| 07.10.2016 | Deutsche Bank and Citi use this personality test to find ‘millennial talent’ — take a look | |
| 02.08.2016 | Seattle’s Top Ten Startup Founders Over 40 | Mention the term “startup founder” to someone at random, and they'll likely conjure up an image of the cast of HBO's Silicon Valley: An unkempt team of Mark Zuckerberg-esque socially-awkward guys bootstrapping their way to uncertain success... |
| 12.04.2016 | Jeff Selingo Gives Students a Blueprint for Life After College | Ask people about the value of college today, and you’ll get a bewildering mix of answers. Optimists savor a 2014 Federal Reserve study showing that people with diplomas earn $830,000 more than non-graduates over their lifetimes. Skeptics re... |
| 15.04.2015 | Let the GeekWire Awards voting begin! Cast your ballot for Startup of the Year | Aaron Easterly of Rover accepts the Startup of the Year award at the 2014 GeekWire Awards. We’re kicking off the GeekWire Awards voting today, and we’re starting with a big one: Startup of the Year. GeekWire Awards attendees in the Sky Chur... |
| 18.03.2015 | Koru partners with University of Washington to help prepare college grads for jobs | Koru CEO Kristen Hamilton on stage at GeekWire Startup Day. Koru has inked another partnership with a top-tier university. The Seattle startup announced today that it is teaming up with the University of Washington College of Arts & Sci... |
| 30.01.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 1/30/15 | Xenex, Iora Health, AutoBot, Beckon, CloudBees, UserTesting, Lootsie, Final, Nilas, Earnest, Ossia Seed stage Lootsie, a loyalty and rewards platform for mobile apps, raised $3.5 million in seed funding from Tim Kendall, Michael Liou and Br... |
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