TestGorilla is a technology company.
TestGorilla has raised $80.0M across 2 funding rounds.
TestGorilla has raised $80.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
TestGorilla has raised $80.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
TestGorilla's investors include Atomico, Balderton Capital, Eight Roads, Zachary Hargreaves, Accel, AirAngels, Alt Capital, AngelList Syndicator, Army Venture Capital Corp., Benchmark, Blisce, Concrete Rose Capital.
TestGorilla is a skills-based hiring platform that enables employers to assess candidates' aptitude, practical job skills, motivation, and culture fit through scientifically validated tests, replacing subjective CVs with objective data to reduce bias and improve hiring decisions.[1][2][3] Serving over 9,000 companies including Sony, PepsiCo, H&M, Deloitte, and the UK's National Health Service, it has facilitated 130,000 job placements and assessed 2.3 million candidates since 2020, driving faster, fairer hires that boost diversity, performance, and retention.[1][2] The company's mission is to place 1 billion people in dream jobs by promoting accessible, asynchronous skills-based hiring worldwide.[1]
With $70 million in Series A funding from Atomico and Balderton Capital, TestGorilla operates remotely across Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa from its Amsterdam HQ, continuously expanding its test library—adding 39 new tests and updating 34 in 2024 alone—to support multi-measure assessments at the top of the hiring funnel.[1][2][6]
TestGorilla was founded in 2020 by CEO Wouter Durville, inspired by challenges at his previous company, Carpets Online, where rapid growth led to overwhelming applicant volumes—up to 2,000 CVs—making fair evaluation difficult.[2][5] Durville experimented with simple skills tests early in the recruitment process, which surprisingly improved filtering despite initial imperfections, revealing a market gap for reliable, bias-free screening tools as existing solutions fell short.[5] Launching publicly a couple of years later, the platform quickly gained traction, securing major customers and funding, marking a pivot from Durville's e-commerce background to revolutionizing global hiring.[2][5]
TestGorilla rides the skills-based hiring trend, shifting from resume-driven processes amid rising demands for diversity, remote work, and AI-impacted roles, where traditional credentials fail to predict performance.[1][2][5][6] Timing aligns with post-2020 remote hiring booms and labor shortages, amplified by market forces like talent scarcity and bias scrutiny, enabling exponential growth via VC backing and blue-chip adoption.[2] It influences the ecosystem by powering 130,000+ data-driven hires, enhancing employer efficiency, candidate equity, and workforce outcomes like retention, while integrations (e.g., Teamtailor) embed it in broader HR tech stacks.[1][4]
TestGorilla is poised to dominate skills-based hiring with 2025 launches of AI-ready assessments, advanced sourcing, and enhanced analytics for end-to-end platforms, scaling its mission toward 1 billion dream jobs.[6] Trends like AI workforce evolution and data-centric HR will propel it, potentially expanding into full talent pipelines amid hybrid/remote norms. Its influence may grow by setting standards for fair, predictive hiring, further embedding objective skills data in global recruitment and amplifying bias reduction at enterprise scale—echoing its origin as a scrappy fix for CV overload now transforming the industry.[1][2][5][6]
TestGorilla has raised $80.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $70.0M Series A in June 2022.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2022 | $70.0M Series A | Atomico, Balderton Capital, Eight Roads, Zachary Hargreaves | |
| Jun 1, 2021 | $10.0M Seed | Accel, AirAngels, Alt Capital, AngelList Syndicator, Army Venture Capital Corp., Atomico, Benchmark, Blisce, Concrete Rose Capital, Crosslink Capital, Feenix Ventures, Felix Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, For Good Ventures, Ganas Ventures, Christian Miele, Lakestar, MaC Venture Capital, Next Play Ventures, Notion Capital, Partech Ventures, Possible Ventures, Rackhouse Venture Capital, Seven Seven Six, Spero Ventures, The Community Fund, Turtle Ventures, Vayner RSE, Vista Venture Partners, Andy Chung, Bob Lee, Curtis Chambers, Emmanuel Seuge, Jacob Chapman, Jim Schneider, Khaled Helioui, Mato Peric, Michael Staton, Sameer Bhalla, Scott Belsky, Sean Behr |