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Recruiting software for growing employers that turns hiring workflows into recurring SaaS revenue.
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Workable is a recruiting software company founded in 2012 and led by CEO Nikos Moraitakis. Its product helps employers find candidates, evaluate them and manage hiring.
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Data credibility: CEO interview; customer, team, burn, churn and revenue figures are founder-reported. The roughly $30M ARR figure is a year-end expectation, not a verified realized result. The host’s ACV arithmetic is challenged during the conversation, so it is not used as a revenue calculation.
For a recruiting platform selling to employers, the first ten customers are usually reachable through founder-led outreach to companies that are hiring repeatedly and already feel coordination pain. Pick one narrow segment, such as 20–100-person firms, and show a working job-to-hire workflow using one live role.
For a recruiting SaaS product, the first dollar should arrive when a hiring team has a real vacancy and a deadline, not when it is merely curious about HR software.
A hiring platform’s flywheel begins when one requisition creates a habit across several coworkers. Workable reported 70 million candidates in its system and roughly 1.5 million lifetime hires, alongside a product that spans sourcing, evaluation and process management.
Recruiting software can feel quiet for months because hiring is episodic and a signed-up company may not have an open role. For a bootstrapped founder, keep the runway long enough to observe several hiring cycles and speak directly with teams that stop using the product.
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