Juicebox, an AI recruiting startup, has nearly doubled its office space in downtown San Francisco following an $80 million funding round. The expansion reflects the company's growth in the recruitment technology sector. Further details about the funding round's investors and the specific size of the expanded office footprint were not immediately available.

Exclusive: Juicebox autonomous recruiting agents help source candidates proactively. Juicebox App Inc. today introduced a suite of autonomous recruiting agents that help hiring teams proactively identify and engage candidates across multiple open roles simultaneously, recommending prospects, drafting outreach messages and sourcing candidates over extended periods with limited human intervention. The new offering, called Juicebox Agents, uses artificial intelligence agents to continuously search for candidates across public online sources including GitHub, Stack Overflow, Google Scholar, Medium and community forums. The San Francisco-based company said some early users have seen as much as a fivefold increase in recruiter efficiency and a 50% reduction in sourcing time. The launch comes as recruiting teams struggle with a surge in job applications, partly driven by generative AI tools that make it easier for candidates to apply en masse. The company said the average candidate now submits 239% more applications than before the introduction of generative AI. Juicebox said outbound recruiting will become increasingly important as hiring teams attempt to cut through rising application volumes and identify more specialized talent. Map people to jobs. "With JuiceBox agents, we can actually map all people in that role," said David Paffenholz, the company's founder and chief executive officer. "We can look at all the machine learning-focused engineers, find the top ones and then reach out to the ones that could be a good fit for the role." The new product expands Juicebox's existing AI recruiting platform, which previously required recruiters to manually search, filter and review candidate profiles. Paffenholz described the prior product as more as a "co-pilot," whereas the new agents are designed to operate autonomously once recruiters establish hiring criteria. The company said each agent is designed to function like an outbound recruiting partner that continuously refines searches based on recruiter feedback and evolving job requirements. Recruiters can run multiple agents simultaneously, each focused on different roles. "It's a chat-based interface that makes suggestions for you," Paffenholz said. Unlike many recruiting platforms that rely primarily on scouring resumes or job boards, Juicebox aggregates information from more than 30 public data sources to build richer candidate profiles. "Rather than purely looking at someone's resume, we can actually look at projects that they've done based on their GitHub profile or essays they've written," Paffenholz said. "With that additional information, we can make more targeted matches and more nuanced matches than is possible otherwise." Bias-free. The platform also attempts to address one of the longstanding criticisms of AI-driven recruiting systems: the potential for algorithmic bias. Paffenholz said Juicebox publishes monthly bias audits conducted by an independent third party that tests the platform against approximately 30,000 profiles across multiple bias categories. "So far, we've never failed any of those audits," he said. "We think that by being able to test the system, we can provide more consistent results and reduce bias compared to the variability of a human making those decisions." The agents can autonomously recommend and contact candidates, but the company said human recruiters remain involved in the process. Recruiters can review suggested outreach before messages are sent and must approve any responses drafted after a candidate engages with the company. Paffenholz said the technology is intended to shift recruiters away from repetitive sourcing tasks and toward more relationship-oriented work. "We think that in the future, recruiters will be able to spend much more time with each candidate, build a deeper relationship and help consult a candidate on whether the role is right for them," he said. The product is priced by the number of active roles managed by agents. Each "agent slot" costs $200 per month and can be reassigned to different positions as hiring needs change. Juicebox said it currently serves more than 5,000 customers and maintains a database of more than 800 million public profiles. The company has raised $116 million in funding to date from investors, including Sequoia Capital Operations LLC and DST Global L.P. Image: Juicebox. A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE: Support its mission to keep content open and free by engaging with theCUBE community. 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SupportFinity vs Juicebox: which AI sourcing platform wins for modern recruiting teams? Comparing SupportFinity and Juicebox to help recruiters choose the right AI sourcing and recruiting platform in 2026. The sourcing problem nobody talks about. Recruiters today are not struggling to find sourcing tools. They are struggling to convert sourcing activity into actual hires. Finding a candidate is step one. Ranking them against your criteria, reaching out across multiple channels, following up, running an assessment, aligning on compensation, and moving them through a hiring workflow are steps two through ten. Most sourcing platforms were built to solve step one. That worked well in 2018. It does not work well in 2026, when recruiting teams are under pressure to reduce costs, cut tool stacks, and show faster time-to-hire. This comparison looks at SupportFinity and Juicebox side by side. If you are evaluating sourcing tools and want to understand which platform gives your team more leverage across the full recruiting cycle, read on. Quick verdict. SupportFinity is the stronger choice for recruiting teams, staffing agencies, and talent acquisition leaders who need more than a people search engine. Juicebox, based on publicly available information, is primarily positioned as an AI-powered people search and candidate discovery tool. It does the discovery piece well. SupportFinity does discovery and everything that comes after it. Platform overview. What is SupportFinity? SupportFinity is an AI-native Recruitment Automation Platform built to manage the entire hiring workflow from one place. It is not just a sourcing tool. It is a complete recruiting operating system. SupportFinity combines AI sourcing, ATS, CRM, outreach, assessments, salary intelligence, phone calling, texting, job distribution, and analytics in one platform. With access to 2.4 billion global profiles and unlimited candidate search, SupportFinity gives recruiters the reach and automation they need to move faster. Recruiters can search, rank candidates by AI match score, launch automated multi-channel outreach campaigns, run technical and personality assessments, and push job listings to LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter, and other boards without leaving the platform. What is Juicebox? Based on publicly available information, Juicebox is an AI-powered people search platform focused on helping recruiters find and filter candidates using natural language search. It is designed to make candidate discovery faster and more intuitive. Juicebox is generally positioned as a sourcing and search tool rather than a full recruiting workflow platform. Feature comparison: SupportFinity vs Juicebox. Where SupportFinity wins. Most sourcing tools help you find candidates. SupportFinity helps you find, rank, engage, assess, and hire them. That difference is not a feature gap. It is a workflow gap. With SupportFinity, a recruiter can run an AI-powered search across 2.4 billion profiles, automatically rank every result against the job criteria, launch a multi-channel outreach sequence across email, LinkedIn, phone, and text, send reminders and follow-ups automatically, move candidates into a built-in ATS, run a technical or personality assessment, check compensation alignment with the salary calculator, and push the job to multiple boards simultaneously. All from one platform. For small teams and agencies, this eliminates the need to subscribe to a sourcing tool, a separate outreach tool, a separate ATS, a separate assessment platform, and a job distribution service. SupportFinity helps teams reduce tool fragmentation and recruiting costs significantly. The unlimited search model also matters. Many sourcing platforms cap your searches or charge per profile view. SupportFinity's unlimited search means your team can run as many searches as needed without worrying about burning through a quota mid-campaign. Why recruiters need more than just sourcing. Finding a candidate is the beginning of the process, not the result. The real friction in recruiting lives in what happens after discovery. Did the candidate get ranked accurately? Did outreach go out on time across the right channels? Did the follow-up happen? Did the candidate complete an assessment? Was the compensation conversation grounded in real data? These are the bottlenecks that slow hiring teams down, and none of them are solved by a sourcing-only tool. SupportFinity was built to solve the full recruiting journey, not just the first step of it. Pricing and ROI. SupportFinity's Solo Plan starts at $89 per month and includes 400 credits. The Growth Plan is $259 per month with 1,200 credits. Credits are used for accessing phone numbers and mobile contacts, which keeps the model transparent and predictable. Juicebox plans give less value at around 25% higher cost. When you factor in that SupportFinity replaces multiple tools in one subscription, the ROI case is strong even at the Growth tier. A team paying separately for a sourcing database, an outreach tool, an ATS, and an assessment platform could easily spend $1,000 or more per month. SupportFinity consolidates all of that starting at $89. Final verdict. If your team needs a complete AI-native recruiting platform that handles sourcing, ranking, outreach, assessments, compensation intelligence, job distribution, and hiring workflows, SupportFinity is the clear winner. Juicebox may serve a narrower search use case, but it does not solve the full recruiting problem that modern teams face. For teams serious about reducing tool sprawl and accelerating time-to-hire, SupportFinity is the stronger investment. 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