At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 57 Social Recruiting companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Social Recruiting Companies & Startups (California, United States)
Hachi
Hachi helps the user get successful introduction with anyone you want – for business, social and personal reasons.
Founder(s): Rachna Singh
Location: San Ramon, California, United States
Industries: Human Resources, Recruiting, Social Recruiting
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LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Founder(s): Allen Blue, Eric Ly, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Konstantin Guericke, Reid Hoffman
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Professional Networking, Recruiting, Social Media, Social Recruiting
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Identified
Identified is a big data and analytics company, pioneers a technology transforming social data from Facebook into professional intelligence.
Founder(s): Adeyemi Ajao, Brendan Wallace
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Recruiting, Social Media, Social Recruiting
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Boon
Boon is a talent crowdsourcing marketplace that offers a game-changing referral engagement network.
Founder(s): Bill Mackay, Dakota Younger, Gary Epper
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: College Recruiting, Human Resources, Recruiting, Social Media, Social Recruiting
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HireTeamMate
HireTeamMate is an employment agency developing a recommended tool throughout the recruiting community.
Founder(s): Steven Jiang, Xinwen Zhang
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Human Resources, Internet, Recruiting, Social Recruiting
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Ascendify
Ascendify’s Intelligent People Management™ platform reinvents how companies attract, develop and inspire their talent.
Founder(s): Lauren Smith, Matt Hendrickson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Machine Learning, Recruiting, SaaS, Social Recruiting
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Work4
Work4 offers a recruitment app that allows companies to find, engage and recruit individuals via Facebook.
Founder(s): Gautier Machelon, Matt Brown, Matthew Brown, Stéphane Le Viet
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Career Planning, Human Resources, Recruiting, Social Media, Social Recruiting, Software, Universities
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Simppler
Simppler’s match-making technology makes it easy for companies to find and hire the outstanding people in their employee’s network.
Founder(s): Shikhar Mishra, Vipul Sharma
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Human Resources, Recruiting, SaaS, Social Recruiting, Software
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RolePoint
Re-imagining talent acquisition for the enterprise. RolePoint are building software that is changing the way talent is sourced.
Founder(s): Chris Le Breton, Kes Thygesen, Rick Tank
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Computer, Recruiting, SaaS, Social Recruiting, Software
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HireClub
HireClub is an invite only group that helps friends find job and offers coaching subscriptions.
Founder(s): Ketan Anjaria, Lisa Maria
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Recruiting, Social Recruiting, Staffing Agency
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Geeklist
Geeklist is a social platform for developers to highlight their achievements, share resources, collaborate, and build their street creed.
Founder(s): Reuben Katz
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaboration, Social Media, Social Network, Social Recruiting
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StrongIntro
StrongIntro is a recruiting tool and service that 10x’s your employee referrals.
Founder(s): Fouad Matin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Human Resources, Recruiting, Social Recruiting
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Blis
Blis operates as an on-demand staffing platform for businesses to connect with the best creative and technical professionals anywhere.
Founder(s): Damian McKenna, Jean-Paul Bonjour
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Media and Entertainment, Social Recruiting, Staffing Agency, Video
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Simplify
A common application for jobs and internships.
Founder(s): Ethan Horoschak, Michael Yan, Rushil Srivastava
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: College Recruiting, Employment, Human Resources, Professional Networking, Recruiting, Social Recruiting
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peercisely
A simple job post with peercisely® gives you access to a virtually unlimited pool of social referrers inspired to match the best talent for
Founder(s): Arek Sokol
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Employment, Recruiting, Social Recruiting
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Perengo
Perengo is a programmatic recruitment automation and analytics platform for performance-conscious recruiters.
Founder(s): Artur Lapinsch, Erik Wagner, Mike Kofi Okyere
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Ad Network, Advertising, Analytics, DSP, Employment, Human Resources, Recruiting, Social Recruiting, Software
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EasyHire
EasyHire.me is a video interview platform empowering companies’ talent teams with video to find the best talent faster.
Founder(s): Alex Vendrow, Anjana Manian
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Employment, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Information Technology, Recruiting, SaaS, Social Media, Social Recruiting, Software, Video, Video on Demand
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Humanrank
HumanRank is dedicated to making the world a better place one resumè at a time.
Founder(s): Giang Doan
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Recruiting, Social Recruiting, Software
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Rewards.to
Rewards.to helps recruiters promote job posts through social media by offering cash rewards to the public for successful referrals.
Founder(s): Hector Correa
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Lead Generation, Social Recruiting
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Connect6
Connect6 is a digital marketing and advertising agency that focuses on social recruiting.
Founder(s): Christopher Hohman, Dean Nicolls, Vik Kashyap
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Enterprise Software, Social Recruiting
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SwingSearch
Founded in 2005, SwingSearch partners with high-growth startups and VCs to deliver the best talent in the industry.
Founder(s): Amanda Edmund, Jennifer Loftus
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, Human Resources, Recruiting, Social Recruiting, Staffing Agency
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Postings – Job Posting Software
Postings.com | Post Jobs – Manage Candidates – Recruit Socially
Founder(s): Mike O’Brien, Nick Jimenez
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Employment, Recruiting, Social Recruiting, Software
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CKR Interactive
CKR Interactive is a branding agency that provides web designing, social media management, and search engine marketing services.
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Location: Campbell, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, SEM, Social Recruiting
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Affinity Circles
Affinity Circles provides social networking software for alumni and trade organizations, helping members locate career opportunities.
Founder(s): Tyson Hendricksen
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Alumni, Career Planning, Social Recruiting, Software
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Scaled
Scaled is a high-growth, early-stage recruiting firm reimagining the remote recruiting process for tech startups.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Human Resources, Recruiting, Social Recruiting
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TalentCircles
TalentCircles’ open SaaS architecture supports your point solutions while giving you the ability to create and manage your Talent Community.
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Location: San Bruno, California, United States
Industries: Career Planning, Enterprise Software, Social Recruiting
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Climber.com
Climber.com is an online career management firm enabling professionals to find compatible jobs.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Consulting, Education, Human Resources, Internet, Recruiting, Social Media, Social Recruiting
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HomeRoom
HomeRoom pioneered “community-management-as-a-service”, with a focus on providing data driven solutions for community-based enterprises.
Founder(s): RJ Ruggles
Location: Emeryville, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Communities, Consulting, Predictive Analytics, Social Recruiting, Training
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Mentat
Mentat is a concierge service for jobseekers, providing a path to better jobs thats faster, easier and more effective than using LinkedIn.
Founder(s): Frank Yang, Saad Rizvi, Zaid Mansoor
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Career Planning, Internet, Recruiting, Social Recruiting
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Simplicant
Modern SaaS platform for growing organizations to easily find, engage and hire top talent with agile recruiting practices.
Founder(s): Raza Saeed, Sajjad Masud
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Career Planning, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Mobile, Recruiting, SaaS, Social Recruiting, Software
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ProductionBeast
Platform for Production Professionals
Founder(s): Eric Hebel
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Professional Networking, Project Management, Social Media, Social Recruiting
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Mixtent
Mixtent offers a database of rankings based on the anonymous recommendations of people’s professional connections.
Founder(s): Jonathan Gheller, มือปืนรับจ้าง นักเลงรับจ้างกระทืบคน
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Career Planning, Social Recruiting
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Jobularity
Social Recruitment Platform for Employers & Personal Branding Tool for Job Seekers
Founder(s): Jeffrey Freeland
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Human Resources, Mobile, Recruiting, SaaS, Social Recruiting
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TweetMyJobs
Next generation recruiting technology in the social & mobile era
Founder(s): Gary Zukowski
Location: Burbank, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Enterprise Software, Internet, Mobile, Recruiting, SaaS, Social Media, Social Recruiting
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xpolinate
xpolinate is a cross-pollination platform. It’s an open talent ecosystem to share employees and collaborate with organizations
Founder(s): Vijay Shanmugam
Location: Los Gatos, California, United States
Industries: B2B, Collaboration, Professional Networking, Sharing Economy, Social Recruiting
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HERO.jobs
HERO.jobs is a modern jobs platform helping millions of people find great work.
Founder(s): Joshua Furie, Rameet Singh, Thomas Albers
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Employment, Human Resources, Internet, Mobile, Recruiting, Social Recruiting, Staffing Agency
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WorkTaps
Employee Referral Software for the hourly workforce.
Founder(s): Bradley Harris
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Gamification, Human Resources, Recruiting, Social Recruiting, Software
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Generator Lab
Generator Lab provides HR/Recruiting solutions with social technology and behavioral algorithms.
Founder(s): Jay Zalowitz, Mike Hagerty, Peter Yewell
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Enterprise Software, Recruiting, SaaS, Search Engine, Social Recruiting
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Reffd
Reffd is a mobile app aimed to connect Job Seekers with Employees from companies they’re interested in.
Founder(s): Sahil Bhutani
Location: Alameda, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Recruiting, Social Recruiting
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Hire Up Staffing Services
Hire Up Staffing Services is a staffing recruiting agency company located in Fresno.
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Location: Fresno, California, United States
Industries: Recruiting, Social Recruiting, Staffing Agency
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LayOffers
LayOffers is a platform for recruiters to discover displaced workers and identify companies with low confidence in their organization.
Founder(s): Jeffrey Jewett
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Industries: Employment, Recruiting, Social Recruiting
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Telecompage
Telecompage is the professional social network dedicated to the telecommunications industry.
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Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: B2B, Internet, Professional Networking, Search Engine, Social Media, Social Network, Social Recruiting, Telecommunications
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SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
Founder(s): Jerome Ternynck
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Recruiting, SaaS, Social Recruiting, Software
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digmybrand
Digmybrand is a website for potential employees to receive feedback on their professional experience and resumes.
Founder(s): Arthur Leung, Kirti Deshpande Chitnis, Manish N Chitnis
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Human Resources, Social Media, Social Recruiting
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Nutrition Jobs
Nutrition Jobs is a career-built portal that offers jobs for dietitians and nutritionists.
Founder(s): Stacey Dunn-Emke
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Career Planning, Social Recruiting, Training
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Mounza
On-Campus Recruiting Opportunities
Founder(s): Kalyan Vishnubhatla, Sharran Deora
Location: Fremont, California, United States
Industries: Career Planning, College Recruiting, Education, Recruiting, Social Recruiting, Universities
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Lab 8 Ventures
Lab 8 Ventures helps to provide companies with project based recruiting services.
Founder(s): Yoonie Kim
Location: Mill Valley, California, United States
Industries: Human Resources, Recruiting, Social Recruiting
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GO Jobs, Inc.
Internet Recruiting Service Provider
Founder(s): Jonathan Duarte
Location: Orange, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Human Resources, Recruiting, Social Recruiting
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Green Jobs Network
Green Jobs Network is an organization that provides information about job opportunities in the social and environmental sectors.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Environmental Consulting, Social Recruiting, Staffing Agency
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Haltbox
Haltbox is a social & professional networking site that allows members to create connections, search for jobs, and find potential clients.
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Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Professional Services, Social Media, Social Recruiting
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Woothire
Woothire is the solution to the broken recruiting process and the company faces with utilizing recruiters.
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Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Recruiting, Social Recruiting
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Fillintech
Fillintech is a marketplace that sells creative assets built by the community of creative people.
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Location: Los Gatos, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Employment, Professional Networking, Social Recruiting
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SearchNWork
SearchNWork develops a recruiting platform that enables job seekers to find and connect with employers anonymously.
Founder(s): Leandro Margulis
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Recruiting, Social Recruiting
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Exprtise Corporation
Colleagues You Trust
Founder(s): Matthew Everitt
Location: Orange, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Communities, Social Media, Social Recruiting
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RecruitFox
RecruitFox is a true cloud based Staffing CRM/ Recruiter Software used by consultants and staffing agencies world-wide to manage hiring.
Founder(s): Avi Gopinath
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: SaaS, Social Recruiting, Software, Staffing Agency
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Gigties
Gigties is a professional social network oriented to those without desk jobs. Organizations can proactively search for qualified candidates.
Founder(s): Luis F. Gil
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Professional Networking, Small and Medium Businesses, Social Media, Social Network, Social Recruiting
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myJoblinx
Find jobs through friends on Facebook
Founder(s): Raj Singh
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Career Planning, Employment, Social Recruiting
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