Indeed.com

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Updated: Dec 10, 2025 ·

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Sep 1, 2025	Cognition	$400.0M Series C	—	Alkeon Capital, Conviction Partners, Founders Fund, Gaingels, LGF, Otherwise Fund, Paradigm, Pear VC, Stellar Capital, bill weathersby, Elad Gil, John Collison, Karim Atiyeh, Konstantin von Unger, Tony Xu
Aug 1, 2025	Chai Discovery	$70.0M Series A	—	8VC, Alkeon Capital, C2 Investment, Gaingels, Innovation Endeavors, LGF, Menlo Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Paradigm, Stellar Capital, Thrive Capital, Y Combinator, Elad Gil, John Collison, Konstantin von Unger, Patrick Collison
Jul 1, 2025	Ashby	$50.0M Series D	—	Alkeon Capital, Bee Partners, Blue Bear Capital, Contrary Capital, Gaingels, General Catalyst, Greylock, LGF, Next Play Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Sequoia Capital, UP.Partners, Amjad Masad, Arash Ferdowsi, Balaji Srinivasan, Bradley Horowitz, Drew Houston, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, John Collison, Jonathan Wasserstrum, Konstantin von Unger, Kyle Vogt, Marc Benioff, Sahin Boydas, Sam Altman, Scott Belsky, Vivek Patel
Apr 1, 2025	Finch	$1.0M Venture Round	—	Amasia, Ampli Ventures, General Catalyst, Inventure, Mendoza Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Recall Capital, Jeff Seibert, Wayne Chang
Feb 1, 2025	Stacks	$3.0M Seed	—	Amasia, Ampli Ventures, Concept Ventures, Entrepreneur First, General Catalyst, Inventure, Mendoza Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Motier Ventures, Recall Capital, Speedinvest, Y Combinator, Jeff Seibert, Mandeep Singh, Thomas Rebaud, Wayne Chang
Oct 1, 2024	Numeric	$28.0M Series A	—	Amasia, Ampli Ventures, General Catalyst, Hawk Hill Ventures, Inventure, Lead Edge Capital, Long Journey Ventures, Mendoza Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Recall Capital, Jeff Seibert, Wayne Chang
Sep 1, 2024	Oyster	$59.0M Series D	—	Acadian Ventures, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Emergence Capital, Highland Capital Partners, Kearny Jackson, monashees, Salesforce Ventures, Slack Fund, SNR, SV Latam Fund, TY, Ulu Ventures, Eric Nadalin, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Sam Altman
Jun 1, 2024	Twelve Labs	$50.0M Series A	—	Coatue, Daffy, Fenway Summer, First Round Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Pareto Holdings, Greg Bettinelli, Vera Equity, Amit Agarwal, Gokul Rajaram, Jacqueline Reses, Jeffrey Wald, Shishir Mehrotra, Tony Xu
Feb 1, 2024	Parlay	$1.0M Seed	—	Coatue, Daffy, Fenway Summer, First Round Capital, Tiffany Luck, Pareto Holdings, Greg Bettinelli, Vera Equity, Amit Agarwal, Gokul Rajaram, Jacqueline Reses, Jeffrey Wald, Shishir Mehrotra, Tony Xu
Nov 1, 2023	Amini	$4.0M Seed	—	Acadian Ventures, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Climate Capital, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Emergence Capital, Female Founders Fund, Forum Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Kearny Jackson, M34 Capital, monashees, Pale Blue Dot, Salesforce Ventures, Slack Fund, SNR, Solana Ventures, SV Latam Fund, TY, Ulu Ventures, Abhay Kumar, Eric Nadalin, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Sam Altman
Nov 1, 2023	LucidLink	$75.0M Series C	—	Baseline Ventures, BrightCap Ventures, Brighton Park Capital, Fathom Capital, Jacob Conger, OMERS Ventures, S28 Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures
Jun 1, 2023	Algorithmiq	$15.0M Series A	—	Amasia, Ampli Ventures, General Catalyst, Inventure, Mendoza Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Recall Capital, Jeff Seibert, Wayne Chang
Mar 1, 2023	Videowise	$3.0M Seed	—	Acadian Ventures, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Anthemis Group, Arkitekt Ventures, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Emergence Capital, Encomenda Smart Capital, Founder Collective, Founders Future, Gecad Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Human Augmentation Syndicate, iNovia Capital, Jude Gomila Rolling Fund, Kearny Jackson, Kindred Ventures, LifeX Ventures, monashees, NFX, Northside Ventures, Republic Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Slack Fund, SNR, SV Latam Fund, TheVentureCity, Tusk Venture Partners, TY, Ulu Ventures, Weekend Fund, Ed Baker, Elliott Cohen, Eric Nadalin, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Greg Kidd, Javier Olivan, Sam Altman, Scott Belsky, Sean Glass
Mar 1, 2023	Opkit	$1.0M Seed	—	Acadian Ventures, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Emergence Capital, Highland Capital Partners, Kearny Jackson, monashees, Salesforce Ventures, Slack Fund, SNR, SV Latam Fund, TY, Ulu Ventures, Y Combinator, Eric Nadalin, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Sam Altman
Feb 1, 2023	Cycle App	$6.0M Seed	—	20VC, AAF Management Ltd., Acadian Ventures, Accel, Alt Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, Boldstart Ventures, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Chalfen Ventures, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Daffy, eFounders, Emergence Capital, Felix Capital, Highland Capital Partners, IA Seed Ventures, Insight Partners, Kearny Jackson, Kima Ventures, L Catterton Growth, Mantis VC, Mischief Venture Capital, monashees, Pareto Holdings, Passion Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Sarona Ventures, #SecretFund, Seedcamp, Slack Fund, SNR, Stride VC, Stripe, SV Latam Fund, TQ Ventures, Tribe Capital, TrueSight Ventures, TY, Ulu Ventures, Y Combinator, Adrien Miniatti, Amirhossein Malekzadeh, Anthony Pompliano, Antoine Martin, Balaji Srinivasan, Chris Murphy, Eric Nadalin, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Guillaume Luccisano, Guy Podjarny, Ilya Kondrashov, Jean-David Blanc, Jeffrey Wilke, Jérôme Le Feuvre, Jonathan Widawski, Kevin Weil, Lior Shiff, Liu Jiang, Mario Götze, Maximilian Tayenthal, Niklas Jansen, Othman Laraki, Peter Kazanjy, Riccardo Zacconi, Ron Pragides, Sam Altman, Scott Belsky, Thibaud Elziere, Youcef Es-skouri
Feb 1, 2023	Svix	$8.0M Venture Round	—	10100, 20VC, Acadian Ventures, Accel, Alumni Ventures, Alven, Andreessen Horowitz, Arrive, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, BoxGroup, Broadhaven Capital Partners, Cambrian Ventures, CFV Ventures, Chemistry VC, Coatue, Connect Ventures, Contrary Capital, Conversion Capital, Cubit Investments Ltd, Emergence Capital, Aniq Kassam, HDC Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Kearny Jackson, KRM Interests LLC, Lionheart Ventures, Mercato Partners, MKT1 Capital, monashees, Next Play Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Pioneer Fund, Redpoint Ventures, RTP Global, S28 Capital, Salesforce Ventures, SeaX Ventures, #SecretFund, sequel, Sequoia Capital, Slack Fund, SNR, Spark Capital, Stellar Capital, Streamlined Ventures, SV Latam Fund, Sweater Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Tribe Capital, TY, Ulu Ventures, Uncork Capital, Union Square Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Y Combinator, Aaron Rankin (Sprout Social), Aaron Rosenson, Antoine Martin, Calvin Chu, Charlie Songhurst, Christian Reber, Emily Kramer, Eric Nadalin, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Grant Miller, Guy Podjarny, Martin Li, Nicolas Steegmann, Paul Forster, Ravi Grover, Ron Pragides, Sahin Boydas, Sam Altman, Simon Dawlat
Feb 1, 2023	Zeitview	$55.0M Series E	—	8VC, Acequia Capital, Also Capital, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Baidu Ventures, Boost VC, Champion Hill Labs, Coatue, Congruent Ventures, Daffy, Rachel Slaybaugh, Fenway Summer, First Round Capital, Founders Fund, Andrew Wheeler, Jungle Ventures, LaunchPad, Microsoft, Tiffany Luck, Openspace Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Sequoia Capital, TCG (The Chernin Group), Tribe Capital, Union Square Ventures, Vera Equity, Wellington Management, Amit Agarwal, Charlie Songhurst, Gokul Rajaram, Jacqueline Reses, Jeffrey Wald, Justin Mateen, Kevin Lin, Shishir Mehrotra, Tom McInerney, Tony Xu
Jan 1, 2023	Coverdash	$3.0M Seed	—	Acadian Ventures, Accel, AME Cloud Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Emergence Capital, Hardware Club, Highland Capital Partners, Kearny Jackson, monashees, Scott Sandell, Newlin, Pfizer Venture Investments, Redpoint Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Slack Fund, SNR, SV Latam Fund, TY, Ulu Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Zintinus, Eric Nadalin, George Still, Gokul Rajaram, Grant Newlin, Harris Barton, Sam Altman, Sam Palmisano, Thomas Noonan
Nov 1, 2022	Arta Finance	$90.0M Series A	—	Kevin Hartz, AlleyCorp, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, AME Cloud Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, Ardent Venture Partners, Atomico, B Capital Group, Byers Capital, Coatue, Craft Ventures, Daffy, Fenway Summer, First Round Capital, Floodgate, Founders Fund, Global Founders Capital, Hanabi Capital, Hardware Club, Heroic Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures, Hyper, Jetstream, Moonfire Ventures, Ann Bordetsky, Jeff Immelt, Tiffany Luck, Operator Collective, Paradigm, Pareto Holdings, Planeteer Capital, Ribbit Capital, Round One Capital, Sarona Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Shaan's All Access Fund, Sherpalo Ventures, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Soma Capital, SRB Ventures, Stripe, Greg Bettinelli, The Hit Forge, Ulu Ventures, Underscore VC, Upload Ventures, Vera Equity, Voyager Ventures, Y Combinator, Akhil Paul, Alexander Aghassipour, Allen Gannett, Amit Agarwal, Arash Ferdowsi, Balaji Srinivasan, Bernhard Niesner, Bradley Horowitz, Chris Murphy, Fredrik Hjelm, Gokul Rajaram, Henrik Herr, Jacqueline Reses, Jeffrey Wald, Jeppe Rindom, Johann "Hansi" Hansmann, Jon Hallett, Julian Shapiro, Ken Howery, Manik Gupta, Mathilde Collin, Mike Tsao, Phillip Chambers, Phoebe Wang, Ryan Tabone, Sahin Boydas, Sam Altman, Sam Parr, Shishir Mehrotra, Stanley Druckenmiller, Tony Xu
Aug 1, 2022	Truework	$50.0M Series C	—	Activant Capital, Balderton Capital, BlueRun Ventures, Buckley Ventures, Company Capital, CrunchFund, Curated, Flex Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Founder Collective, Greylock, GSV Asset Management, IVP, Khosla Ventures, Maven Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Mischief Venture Capital, Next Play Ventures, Resolute Ventures, Ride Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Social Capital, SV Angel, Telescope Partners, Y Combinator, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Noam Bardin, Ran Makavy, Rob Theis, Vipul Ved Prakash, William Hockey
Aug 1, 2022	Fairmarkit	$36.0M Series C	—	Activant Capital, Balderton Capital, B Capital Group, BlueRun Ventures, Buckley Ventures, Company Capital, CrunchFund, Curated, Flex Capital, Founder Collective, Greylock, GSV Asset Management, Insight Partners, Journey Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Madrona Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Neotribe Ventures, Next Play Ventures, Notable Capital, Ride Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Toba Capital, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Rob Theis, Vipul Ved Prakash, William Hockey
Jul 1, 2022	Assembly OSM	$38.0M Series A	—	Acadian Ventures, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bling Capital, Boost VC, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Emergence Capital, Ensemble Brands, Highland Capital Partners, Kearny Jackson, monashees, Salesforce Ventures, Slack Fund, SNR, Starframe Capital, SV Latam Fund, Ulu Ventures, Ben Curren, Eric Nadalin, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Josh Abramson, Sam Altman
Jun 1, 2022	Boulder Care	$36.0M Series B	—	Coatue, Daffy, Fenway Summer, First Round Capital, Tiffany Luck, Pareto Holdings, Greg Bettinelli, Vera Equity, Amit Agarwal, Gokul Rajaram, Jacqueline Reses, Jeffrey Wald, Shishir Mehrotra, Tony Xu
Jun 1, 2022	Courier	$35.0M Series B	—	1776, Acadian Ventures, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bling Capital, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Cowboy Ventures, Emergence Capital, Firework Ventures, FPV Fund, General Catalyst, Dave Munichiello, Karim Faris, M.G. Siegler, GV (Google Ventures), GV, Harrison Metal, Highland Capital Partners, Inspired Capital, Kearny Jackson, Matrix, Meritech Capital Partners, monashees, NFX, Nyca Partners, Penny Jar Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Serena Ventures, Slack Fund, SNR, SV Latam Fund, Team Ignite Ventures, TGM, TY, Ulu Ventures, Vista Venture Partners, Wellington Management, Y Combinator, Eric Nadalin, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Jared Leto, MG Siegler, Ott Kaukver, Sam Altman, Tracy Young, Will Gaybrick
Apr 1, 2022	Earth	$10.0M Seed	—	20VC, Accomplice VC, AirAngels, Alkeon Capital, Alpine Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Banana Capital, Adeyemi Ajao, Browder Capital, Contrary Capital, Daffy, DCM, DFJ, DNX Ventures, Elephant Partners, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, FJ Labs, Flucas Ventures, FTX Ventures, Gaingels, Geek Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Gutter Capital, Huobi Ventures, iNovia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, LAUNCH, LGF, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ludlow Ventures, Montauk Ventures, Not Boring Capital, Oak HC/FT, Operator Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Pareto Holdings, Patron, Primary Venture Partners, QED Investors, Quiet Capital, Sequoia Capital, Seven Seven Six, Shrug Capital, SRB Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, T-Bird Capital, Tet Ventures, The Hit Forge, Trajectory Ventures, Weekend Fund, Abe Burns, Adrian Aoun, Balaji Srinivasan, Daniel Pourasghar, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Eric Wu, Evan Moore, Gokul Rajaram, Harry Hurst, Jeremy Cai, Julian Shapiro, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Konstantin von Unger, Manik Gupta, Michael Stoppelman, Neil Parikh, Richard Laxer, Sri Batchu, Tom Blomfield, Tony Xu, Wayne Ting, Zachary Rapp

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Leadership Team

Key people at Indeed.com.

EJ Lawless

Director of Online Marketing

Leadership Team

Key people at Indeed.com.

EJ Lawless

Director of Online Marketing

Deep Dive

Indeed is a global job marketplace that helps employers find talent and job seekers find work by aggregating listings and operating a two‑sided hiring marketplace built on search, apply, and hiring tools for employers and candidates. [2][3]

High‑Level Overview

Mission: Indeed’s stated aim is to make hiring faster, simpler, and more human by bringing jobs together in one place and powering connections between employers and job seekers through search and marketplace tools.[2]
Investment philosophy / Key sectors / Impact on startup ecosystem: Indeed is an operating company (a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings), not an investment firm; its core focus is talent marketplace products and employer services rather than venture investing, though its scale and data influence hiring‑tech markets and platform partners globally.[2][3]
Product and customers: Indeed builds a job search and hiring marketplace that aggregates millions of job listings and provides tools for job seekers (search, apply, resume upload) and employers (job postings, resume search, applicant tools); it serves job seekers, employers of all sizes, and recruiting professionals across more than 60 countries and 28 languages.[2][3]
Problem solved and growth momentum: Indeed solves discovery and matching friction in hiring by centralizing listings and adding employer-facing marketplace features (e.g., Direct Apply/Indeed Apply) to capture more of the hiring funnel; the company reports hundreds of millions of monthly unique visitors and millions of employer users, positioning it as the largest global job site by traffic and hires.[2]

Origin Story

Founding year and founders: Indeed was founded in 2004 by Paul Forster and Rony Kahan.[3][1]
How the idea emerged and early evolution: Indeed began as a vertical search engine that aggregated job listings to create a fast, relevant search experience for job seekers, then expanded in 2011 to allow employers to post jobs and let candidates apply directly on the platform—shifting toward a full two‑sided hiring marketplace and capturing richer hiring data to improve matching.[2]
Parent and expansion: Indeed is a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings (Japan) and has grown global operations with headquarters in the U.S. and offices across many markets.[2][3]

Core Differentiators

Massive aggregated inventory: Aggregates listings from thousands of sources and offers scale — reported as the #1 job site by total visits and hundreds of millions of monthly unique visitors.[2]
Two‑sided marketplace with data flywheel: Transition from pure search to marketplace (employers posting, candidates applying) lets Indeed capture application and hiring signals that improve matching and monetization.[2]
Global reach and localization: Operates in 60+ countries and 28 languages, serving diverse labor markets and employers worldwide.[3][2]
Employer product breadth: Offers employer tools (paid job postings, resume search, applicant management) enabling monetization across small employers to large enterprises.[2]
Backing and scale from Recruit Holdings: Parent company resources and global HR‑tech footprint support product development and international expansion.[2]

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Trend alignment: Indeed rides the long‑term trends of platform‑ization of hiring, data‑driven matching (AI), and vertical search/marketplaces combining discovery with transactional workflows.[2]
Timing and market forces: Large, fragmented labor markets and growing employer demand for faster, cost‑effective hiring favor scalable online marketplaces that can surface relevant candidates quickly; Indeed’s scale gives it a competitive advantage in data and reach.[2]
Influence: By aggregating job inventory and capturing application/hire signals, Indeed shapes recruiter expectations, pricing for job distribution, and competitive dynamics among job boards, ATS vendors, and newer hiring startups.[2]

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Near‑term trajectory: Continued push to convert more hiring workflows onto its platform (higher adoption of direct apply and employer tools) to grow marketplace take‑rate and improve AI matching is central to Indeed’s strategy.[2]
Key trends that will shape it: Advances in AI matching, labor‑market data analytics, regulatory changes around employment data and job advertising, and competition from niche vertical job platforms and large tech companies expanding into hiring services. [2]
How influence may evolve: If Indeed increases employer adoption of end‑to‑end hiring tools, it can deepen its data advantage and further entrench a global hiring marketplace position; conversely, specialization by vertical platforms or regulatory limits on job advertising could create pressure for product differentiation.[2]

Primary sources used: Indeed corporate information and Recruit Holdings statements about Indeed’s history, scale, product evolution, and metrics.[2][3][1]

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