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Findem
Findem is a Redwood City, California talent intelligence platform that labels career data on more than 800 million people and uses it for sourcing, applicant review, candidate verification, and AI hiring agents.
Enterprise and fast-growing talent teams that source for hard technical, executive, or niche roles, want to rediscover candidates already in their ATS, and need help spotting fraudulent applications.
Small companies hiring a few people a year, and recruiters who want a simple keyword search tool they can learn in an afternoon.
Verdict
Findem's search is the reason teams buy it. It builds profiles from career, company, and relationship data over time, so a recruiter can search for attributes such as whether someone has seen a company through a successful exit, instead of matching keywords. Recruiters on G2 praise the Greenhouse integration, the fraud checks, and the customer success team, and they also say the platform takes time to learn. It raised $51 million in October 2025, bought Getro in December 2025, and agreed to buy Glider AI in March 2026. For enterprise teams that source at volume, it is a strong recommendation.
Score Breakdown
These scores cover how good Findem's search and candidate data are, how well its sourcing and outreach automation works, how well it fits with existing recruiting tools, and how clear its pricing is, and then how it does as a company on innovation, communication, pricing, and contract terms.
Who Uses Findem, Where It Fits on Price, and Its Competitors
Findem sells to in-house talent acquisition teams, sourcers, and executive search groups at mid-sized and large companies. Most teams start with sourcing and candidate rediscovery in their ATS, then add inbound applicant review, the Candidate Authenticity Suite for spotting fake applicants, talent market reports for hiring managers, and agents that screen and schedule candidates. Findem was co-founded in 2019 by Hari Kolam, who was previously co-founder and CTO of Instart, and it has raised $105 million in total.
On price, Findem sits at the enterprise end of recruiting software. It charges per seat on annual contracts and has added outcome-based pricing tied to hires. Its closest competitors are Gem, SeekOut, Metaview, and Ashby.
Pricing
Findem does not publish a rate card. Prices are as of November 2026.
| Plan | Price | What stands out |
|---|---|---|
| Talent platform | Quoted per seat | Sourcing, CRM, applicant review, market reports, and the authenticity checks. |
| Intelligent Job Post and agents | Outcome-based | Agents source, screen, and deliver candidates, with fees tied to hires. |
| Embedded and partner use | Quoted | Job boards and HR platforms can build Findem's data into their own products. |
The Field at a Glance
How Findem compares with other AI recruiting and ATS vendors we reviewed, by Overall Score and relative typical engagement cost.
Findem scores 7.7 in AI recruiting and ATS, behind Metaview (8.0) and Ashby (7.9), and ahead of Gem (7.6), Manatal (7.5), and Dover (7.2).
How Well Findem Fits Each Recruiting Use Case
We rated Findem against the situations talent teams bring to a sourcing platform, drawing on G2 reviews, its pricing page, and its funding and acquisition announcements.
| Use case | Fit | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sourcing for hard technical roles | Strong | Attribute search finds people that keyword search tends to miss. |
| Rediscovering candidates in the ATS | Strong | Recruiters on G2 call this one of its most useful features. |
| Reviewing high inbound volume | Strong | Applicant review ranks inbound candidates against the role. |
| Spotting fake or suspicious applicants | Strong | The Candidate Authenticity Suite flags suspicious applications. |
| Email outreach campaigns | Mixed | Several reviewers find the campaign tools clunky. |
| Small teams with light hiring | Poor | The platform needs regular use to learn, and pricing is enterprise. |
Review Excerpts
Excerpts from public reviews of Findem.
“Findem has been great for rediscovering existing candidates in our ATS. It offers robust filtering options and useful functionality that helps recruiters identify both existing candidates and external prospects for roles, based on the skills they're looking for.”
“The granularity of your search functionality! Instead of needing to reference two to three tabs to decide if one candidate hits the mark, Findem collates this data into one, unified candidate profile.”
“Findem lets us quickly identify and review top candidates from all sources, whether they're inbound, in our ATS, CRM, external channels, and more.”
“It can be a useful tool, but it isn't very intuitive for first-time users, so you need to invest some time to learn it.”
“The campaign functionality. It's already starting to improve, but I think it's still a little clunky.”
Company Facts
- Co-founder and CEO
- Hari Kolam (CEO)
- Founded
- 2019
- Headquarters
- Redwood City, California
- Funding
- $105 million in total, including a $36 million Series C led by SLW and $15 million in growth financing from J.P. Morgan in October 2025
- Acquisitions
- Getro in December 2025 and Glider AI, announced in March 2026
- Website
- findem.ai
Key Leadership
Hari Kolam
Co-founder and CEO
He was co-founder and CTO of Instart and holds more than 50 technology patents.
Methodology
We scored Findem on eight criteria, from search and candidate data quality to contract fairness, and the Overall Score is their simple average on a 0 to 10 scale. The scores draw on reviews from public review sites and forums, with paid reviews and pay-for-play sites excluded, plus a hands-on look at the product, its pricing, and its documentation and training. Scores can change as we add reviews and product checks.
Sources
Facts on this page
- He was co-founder and CTO of Instart and holds more than 50 technology patents: HRTech Edge
Company facts
- Co-founder and CEO: HRTech Edge
- Founded: Crunchbase News
- Headquarters: Findem
- Funding: Crunchbase News
- Acquisitions: Findem
Quote sources
- “Findem has been great for rediscovering existing candidates in…” (Lead TA Operations Specialist, in a G2 review): G2
- “The granularity of your search functionality! Instead of needing…” (Senior Talent Partner, in a G2 review): G2
- “Findem lets us quickly identify and review top candidates…” (Findem user, in a G2 review): G2
- “It can be a useful tool, but it isn't…” (Lead TA Operations Specialist, in a G2 review): G2
- “The campaign functionality. It's already starting to improve, but…” (Senior Talent Partner, in a G2 review): G2