Humanly Raises $25M Series B to Help Companies Hire Faster, Retain, and Stay Fully Staffed
The AI hiring platform engages 250,000+ candidates per month and has conducted more than 5 million interviews, helping recruiters save 20+ hours per week while improving candidate experience
SEATTLE — May 21, 2026 — Humanly, the AI hiring platform for hourly, frontline, and high-volume recruiting, today announced $25 million in Series B funding. The round included participation from SEEK Investments, Drive Capital, MassMutual Catalyst Fund and Zeal Capital Partners..
Humanly’s platform uses conversational AI across chat, phone, and video to engage, qualify, and move candidates through the hiring process—helping companies hire faster, retain talent, and stay fully staffed.
As companies increasingly rely on hourly and frontline workers to deliver their core services, maintaining consistent staffing levels has become critical to business performance. Humanly helps employers meet this demand by engaging every applicant, qualifying candidates at scale, and maintaining a steady pipeline of ready-to-work talent.
The new funding will accelerate Humanly’s ability to deliver stronger hiring and workforce outcomes, with continued investment in automation, candidate engagement, and end-to-end hiring infrastructure.
“Recruiting teams don’t want more tools to manage applicants; they want systems that help them hire faster and keep roles filled,” said Prem Kumar, CEO and founder of Humanly. “Humanly combines AI-driven engagement with structured evaluation to ensure every candidate is engaged, qualified efficiently, and moved forward quickly. We’re building toward a service-as-software model where hiring outcomes are delivered, not just enabled.”
AI Recruiting Software for Frontline and High-Volume Hiring
Humanly brings together an AI Recruiter, AI Interviewer, and ATS into a single platform designed to manage the hiring lifecycle from first interaction through interview and hiring decision.
AI Recruiter engages, screens, and schedules every applicant 24/7
AI Interviewer evaluates candidates at scale using structured conversations
CRM helps teams build talent pools and re-engage candidates through SMS and email
ATS manages candidate workflows, pipelines, and hiring decisions in one system
Together, these capabilities enable hiring teams to move faster, reduce manual work, and ensure no qualified candidate is missed.
Humanly is expanding its platform to include a service-as-software model, where customers don’t just gain tools, but a consistent, reliable flow of qualified candidates moving through the hiring process.
Proven Impact at Scale
Across Humanly’s customers, companies are seeing measurable hiring improvements, including:
Up to 8× faster time-to-hire
20+ hours saved per recruiter each week
Candidate experience scores averaging 4.8 / 5
Today, Humanly engages more than 250,000 candidates each month and has conducted over five million interviews, helping organizations move from application to interview in minutes.
Hundreds of employers, ranging from mid-market companies to Fortune 500 enterprises, use Humanly to modernize recruiting operations and maintain staffing levels across frontline workforces in industries such as healthcare, hospitality, logistics, and retail.
With new outcome-based pricing models, including pay-per-candidate and pay-per-hire options, Humanly is aligning its platform more directly with customer results, ensuring companies only pay for delivered hiring outcomes.
Supporting the Future of Hiring
Humanly is expanding its platform to help companies not only hire faster, but also maintain a reliable pipeline of qualified candidates over time. By continuously engaging and qualifying job seekers, Humanly ensures employers have a steady flow of talent entering their hiring funnel.
The new funding will support continued product development and expansion of Humanly’s AI-driven hiring platform as companies increasingly adopt automation to manage high-volume hiring and frontline workforce needs.
Companies interested in improving recruiter productivity, candidate experience, and hiring speed can learn more or schedule a demo athttps://www.humanly.io/.
About Humanly
Humanly is the AI recruiting platform for hourly, frontline and high-volume hiring. The platform uses conversational AI to automate candidate engagement, screening, scheduling, and interviewing, helping companies hire faster, retain talent, and maintain a steady pipeline of qualified candidates.
Learn more athttps://www.humanly.io.
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