Bengaluru: AI recruitment startup HireBound has raised $2 million in a seed funding round led by Kalaari Capital, with participation from Antler, Infinyte Club, and CareerNet.
With this latest funding, the startup plans to accelerate product innovation, expand its go-to-market operations, and scale globally as it targets a 5x increase in ARR over the next 12–18 months.
HireBound operates in a rapidly evolving hiring landscape where AI agents are transforming knowledge work and reshaping how companies operate.
As roles evolve and skill requirements shift, enterprises increasingly require recruiting systems that not only track applicants but autonomously execute hiring workflows at scale. The AI recruitment startup positions itself at the center of this AI-first transformation in recruitment.
The fresh capital raised by HireBound will be deployed across three key strategic priorities. On the product front, HireBound will further enhance its agentic AI engine to autonomously manage larger portions of the recruiting lifecycle across roles, geographies, and hiring channels.
The company will deepen integrations with ATS and HRMS platforms while strengthening hiring analytics capabilities.
On the commercial side, the company will expand its sales, delivery, and customer success teams to support staffing firms, recruitment partners, and enterprise clients through SaaS and managed hiring models.
The investment will also fund key hires across engineering, AI/ML, and operations to power HireBound’s next phase of global growth.
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Currently, HireBound’s agentic AI platform automates sourcing, engagement, screening, evaluation, and candidate recommendations end-to-end.
The platform has powered over 3 million candidate conversations and is trained on more than 2 million resumes and over 30,000 job openings. HireBound delivers qualified, interview-ready candidates while significantly reducing recruiter workload.
HireBound: Recruiter-First Design Addressing Gaps in Multi-Location Hiring
Speaking on the fundraise, Sharad Vij, Co-founder of HireBound, said, “Recruitment today is still heavily manual, fragmented, and slow. Traditional ATS systems are systems of record, not systems of action. HireBound changes that. Our agentic AI doesn’t just track candidates it engages, screens, evaluates, and delivers outcomes.
With Kalaari Capital leading this round, we’re excited to partner with investors who understand category-defining technology businesses. This backing enables us to double down on AI R&D, scale globally, and evolve from a hiring copilot into a true talent-intelligence layer.”
Adding to this, Kumar Vikramaditya, Co-founder of HireBound, stated, “We are building the platform for recruiting in the AI-first world. HireBound’s AI agents handle high-context and high touchpoint tasks across sourcing, engagement and evaluation while continuously learning from hiring signals and feedback loops.
Our focus is on creating AI systems that can operate across diverse roles and geographies, with autonomous execution across the recruiting lifecycle.”
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Commenting on the investment, Jayraj Bharat Patel, AVP at Kalaari Capital, said, “We believe HireBound is building the execution layer that recruiting has been missing. Their agentic architecture and recruiter-first design address a massive gap in high-velocity and multi-location hiring.
As global demand for AI-driven efficiency grows, the platform is well-positioned to redefine how modern hiring teams operate. We are super excited to partner with Sharad and Vikram on this endeavour.”
HireBound currently operates with a 15-member team spanning product, AI/ML, engineering, delivery, and go-to-market functions.
With growing traction among staffing firms and enterprise talent teams, HireBound plans to deepen its presence in international markets over the next 12–24 months while adapting to regional compliance and hiring frameworks.
As the company scales, the company aims to establish itself as the global default infrastructure for modern recruiting, where AI handles operational execution and human recruiters focus on strategic decision-making and relationship building.
