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Sapia.ai

Chat-based hiring,
without the bias.

SectorHR AI
Entry2020
Rampersand roleSeed · follow
StatusActive
Founded
2018
Melbourne
Founder & CEO
Barb Hyman
former HR exec, lawyer
Rampersand role
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Multi-round
Latest round
A$1.9M
Seed · Jun 2017
Why we invested

Why Sapia.ai,
and why then.

Early-stage hiring is the worst moment in most people's careers – dehumanising forms, 4-second glances, nothing that resembles a real conversation. Sapia replaced the screen with a chat that actually understands the candidate.

Barb had already run a public diversity research lab before building Sapia. She didn't pitch us on efficiency; she pitched us on better hiring decisions for more people.

The journey so far

Sapia.ai ×
Rampersand

2020

Seed round

Rampersand backed PredictiveHire's seed for its AI chat-based recruitment platform.

2022

Pre-Series A

Raised from Hudson, Dion Hershan, Leigh Jasper and Jim Craig to scale.

A$7M
2022

Series A

Macquarie Capital and Woolworths' W23 led a Series A for Sapia's US expansion.

A$17M

Partner

TP

Taryn Pieterse

Partner

Taryn has worked with Barb and the team since Seed on global enterprise GTM and the science around chat interviews.

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