Juicebox

Juicebox

Subscription marketplace for independent tech talent

Overview

Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship

Juicebox is a subscription-based marketplace that connects businesses with independent tech talent. Businesses pay a flat subscription to access a vetted network of developers, designers, and growth experts, instead of paying commissions or platform fees. The platform matches businesses with the exact type of independent professionals they need, enabling quick, frictionless hiring. Independent professionals use Juicebox to find job leads and work with companies while keeping 100% of their earnings. The service simplifies hiring by removing the traditional agency middleman and offering flexible hiring solutions, including easy payment to freelancers. The goal is to help fast-growing businesses hire the right talent efficiently and give independent professionals meaningful opportunities while preserving their full earnings.

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About Juicebox

Simplify's Rating
Why Juicebox is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Consulting

Enterprise Software

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$116.1M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2022

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • AI Agents reduce sourcing time by 50% and boost recruiter efficiency fivefold since early 2026.
  • Customers report 90% less time identifying top candidates and see three times more replies.
  • Internal Talent Rediscovery launched June 2026 enables Ashby users to re-engage past applicants without manual search.

What critics are saying

  • ATS vendors like Greenhouse may embed native AI agents by 2028, making Juicebox's layer-on-ATS model obsolete.
  • Gem and LinkedIn Recruiter will capture enterprise buyers by 2027, forcing Juicebox into a niche add-on role.
  • AI Agent costs push total per-recruiter cost to $400–$600/month, causing churn among lean startups within 6–12 months.

What makes Juicebox unique

  • Juicebox uses AI agents searching 800M+ profiles across 30+ sources for richer candidate data.
  • The platform passes all monthly third-party bias audits on 30,000 profiles since launch.
  • Juicebox offers Internal Talent Rediscovery to re-engage ATS candidates using stage, tag, and job filters.

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Funding

Total Funding

$116.1M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

4 Rounds

Series B funding is typically for startups that have proven their business model and need more funding to expand rapidly—often by entering new markets or adding more products. Investors are usually venture capital firms that specialize in later-stage investments.
Series B Funding Comparison
Above Average

Industry standards

$35M
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Linktree
$65M
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$80M
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$100M
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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

-6%

2 year growth

-4%
SupportFinity
May 8th, 2026
SupportFinity vs Juicebox: which AI sourcing platform wins for modern recruiting teams?

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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Juicebox
Dec 10th, 2025
Introducing Internal Talent Rediscovery

Introducing Internal Talent Rediscovery. Today, Juicebox App, Inc. is launching Internal Talent Rediscovery - a major upgrade that that lets you rediscover the talent already in your ATS. It's available today for all Ashby customers, with additional partners, including Lever, Greenhouse, and more following shortly. Let's take a look at how it works: Search within your ATS. The strongest candidates could be ones you've already talked to. With Internal Talent Rediscovery, you can now surface these contacts directly inside Juicebox and filter for them with data from your ATS. * Toggle "Only show ATS candidates" in your search filters * Fine-tune your search by candidate stage, jobs, tags, or recruiter owners You can even run an Autopilot on top of that talent pool to narrow it down even further. This makes it easier than ever to revisit past applicants, identify talent worth a second look, and bring high-intent candidates back into your hiring process. Exclude past candidates. Use "Exclude ATS Candidates" to filter out anyone already in your ATS from your search. * Toggle "Exclude ATS candidates" in your ATS search filters * Run candidate searches with without duplication Get the need confidence that every profile in your search results is new to your pipeline, and easily export them into your ATS. Filter by ATS Tags in CRM. Every contact in its CRM now includes data from your ATS, so you can quickly understand where they last sat in your recruiting process. * Found in ATS - contacts who exist in your ATS * Jobs in ATS - contacts belonging to an ATS job * Tags in ATS - contacts with custom tags from your ATS These new filters let you quickly narrow down your CRM to an exact subset of contacts for re-engagement, and more. Try in Juicebox today. This feature is now available for current Ashby customers, with more integration partners coming soon. Reach out to sales at [email protected] to explore how its ATS integrations fit into your team's workflow.

Startup Ecosystem
Sep 25th, 2025
Juicebox Secures $30M from Sequoia to Transform Hiring with AI

The funding will help Juicebox expand its team and continue to develop its innovative technology, positioning it as a potential default tool for hiring at startups.

IndexBox
Sep 25th, 2025
Juicebox Expands AI Recruiting Platform

Juicebox, a startup with an AI-powered recruiting platform, has secured funding to expand its services. The platform automates candidate search and outreach, benefiting both small businesses and large corporations by handling initial hiring stages. This allows recruiters to focus on building relationships. Despite competition from established players like Eightfold, investors trust founders Paffenholz and Gupta to make Juicebox a key part of modern startup tech infrastructure.

TechCrunch
Sep 25th, 2025
Juicebox Secures $30M to Transform Hiring

Juicebox, an AI-powered search engine for hiring, raised $30M in a Series A round led by Sequoia, bringing total funding to $36M. Founded by David Paffenholz and Ishan Gupta, Juicebox uses LLMs to efficiently identify qualified candidates. After launching PeopleGPT in late 2023, the platform quickly gained over 2,500 customers and achieved $10M in ARR. Sequoia's interest was piqued by positive reviews from users, including their own internal recruiter.

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