inga.

What inga. does

inga. (inga GmbH) is a Frankfurt-based social recruiting service and software company that helps DACH-region employers find and pre-qualify hard-to-reach skilled workers via social media active sourcing. The company's core offering is the Job Bot — an individually configured recruiting chatbot, designed by inga's recruiting consultants, that runs targeted paid advertising campaigns on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and XING (under a neutral "Dein Traumberuf" / Your Dream Job talent brand) to attract passive candidates, conducts automated 3-minute mini-interviews to pre-qualify them, and delivers results to clients through the browser-based inga Talent Manager. The Talent Manager integrates with 60+ ATS/HRIS platforms including Personio, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Greenhouse and Smart Recruiters, embedding inga into existing recruiting workflows. The platform is packaged into three segment-specific sub-brands — inga. für Mittelstand (SMEs), inga. für Konzerne (large enterprises) and inga. für Personalberater (recruitment consultants/headhunters using inga as an add-on channel).

The business model is transaction-based: inga earns per-campaign service fees, explicitly without subscription or traditional placement-fee structures, with pricing customized by profile difficulty and geography and a money-back guarantee of at least 5 pre-qualified candidates for many profiles. Go-to-market is sales-led, combining free job-position consultations, demo bookings, content marketing and a regional partner network (Hessenmetall, MVMW Mittelstand, up2b, Mindsight, DigiSocial). Reported outcomes include 300+ customers served, 43,000+ short applications processed, 1,500+ chatbots created, an average 36-day time to first hire, and claimed cost savings of 50%+ per hire versus traditional headhunters (20–25% of annual gross salary, typically €8,000–€20,000).

Founded from concept testing in 2017 and formally incorporated as inga GmbH in January 2019, the company is founder-led (Corinna Haas as Co-Founder & Managing Director) with a functional leadership team spanning Tech & Product, Marketing & Sales, Sales & Lead Generation and Marketing & Research. Revenue is not publicly disclosed; the company appears bootstrapped with one disclosed early-stage funding round and operates as an active going concern serving named customers that include Vonovia, Siemens, EDEKA, MAN, Mersen, Schramm, Insight IMC and PAKi.

Name

inga.

Legal name

inga GmbH

Website

https://inga.one

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

inga. is a Frankfurt-based social recruiting platform that uses chatbot-driven active sourcing on social media to help DACH-region SMEs, large enterprises, and recruitment consultants find and pre-qualify hard-to-reach skilled workers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recruiting Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Advertising Agencies (541810)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro primary industry

Employer Brand & Recruitment Marketing Creative Agencies (MPAAAAAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Conversational AI Platforms (chat/voice bots, orchestration) (HDAAAFAC), Workplace Automation & Self-Service (RPA for IT, Chatbots, Virtual Agents) (BPAEAIAI)

Keywords

• Social recruiting services
• Automated active sourcing
• Recruitment chatbot platform
• Talent acquisition software
• Job bot recruiting

Headquarters

HQ city

Frankfurt

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Recruiting Service (Job Bot): inga creates individualized Job Bots for companies to find hard-to-reach specialists via social media active sourcing. The service includes chatbot-based pre-qualification, consulting, and candidate delivery. The company explicitly states 'without placement fees and without subscription model.' Revenue appears to be earned per successful placement or as a service fee per campaign.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

inga. operates a Social Recruiting service that creates individualized "Job Bots" (recruiting chatbots) on behalf of client companies to find hard-to-reach skilled workers via targeted social media advertising on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and XING. The chatbots conduct automated mini-interviews to pre-qualify passive candidates without requiring resumes, and pre-qualified candidates are delivered to clients through the inga Talent Manager platform, with a money-back guarantee of at least 5 pre-qualified candidates for many profiles.

Product overview

inga. is a Social Recruiting platform that offers a suite of recruiting solutions built around its core Job Bot technology. The platform consists of the main inga. Job Bot (which creates individual job bots for active sourcing via social media), the Recruiting Chatbot (for automated mini-interviews and candidate pre-qualification), and the Talent Manager (browser-based candidate management). The company offers three market-specific sub-brands: inga. für Mittelstand (for SMEs), inga. für Konzerne (for large corporations), and inga. für Personalberater (for recruitment consultants). The platform integrates with 60+ HR and recruiting software systems and operates primarily in the DACH region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• inga. für Mittelstand A recruiting solution tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) to find specialists in the DACH region, with guaranteed 5+ pre-qualified applicants delivered via Job Bots and chatbot-led pre-qualification.
• inga. für Konzerne A scalable recruiting service for large corporations (e.g., Vonovia, Siemens, EDEKA), supporting 100+ open positions simultaneously through automated chatbot pre-qualification and integration with existing HR and ATS software.
• inga. für Personalberater An add-on service for recruitment consultants and headhunters, providing access to passive candidates through additional social-media channels and automated chatbot pre-qualification to supplement existing human recruiting workflows.
• inga. Talent Manager A browser-based applicant management system delivered as part of inga.'s recruiting service, where clients receive pre-qualified candidates, can manage and prioritize them, and integrate with 60+ external ATS/HRIS platforms.

Quantifiable outcome

• 50%+ cost savings per successful hire compared to traditional recruitment methods
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers18 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration39 records

AI capability4 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• HessenmetallcoreStrategic or Co-development Partneringa is featured in Hessenmetall's aktiv magazine (2023 edition) as an innovation in recruiting. Hessenmetall is the employers' association for the metal and electrical industry in Hesse, Germany. The partnership provides credibility in the manufacturing and industrial sector.
• MVMW MittelstandminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMittelstandsvereinigung Westfalen (MVMW) partnership for reaching mid-market companies in the DACH region.
• NCA (Neue Carrosserie Avantgarde)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerNCA partnership for marketing reach to recruitment and HR professionals.
• up2bminorGTM or Marketing PartnerMarketing partner for reach in the DACH region.
• MindsightminorGTM or Marketing PartnerMarketing partner for recruitment/HR sector.
• DigiSocialminorGTM or Marketing PartnerDigital/social media marketing partner for reach.
• Serena BrightminorGTM or Marketing PartnerMarketing partner listed on company page.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• HeyJobs: Berlin-based automated job advertising and candidate engagement platform targeting SMEs and enterprises in DACH. Closest analog in business model — performance-based social-media-driven active sourcing with technology-supported pre-qualification — and serves overlapping customers.
• Talention: German talent sourcing software that helps employers run recruitment marketing campaigns and reach passive candidates. Comparable as a DACH recruitment-marketing platform; differs in being sold as self-serve SaaS rather than inga's service-led Job Bot model.
• softgarden: German recruiting software vendor offering ATS, candidate experience, and employer branding tooling for Mittelstand and Konzerne in DACH. Directly comparable customer base and use cases, even though softgarden bundles broader TA-suite capabilities versus inga's sourcing specialization.
• Join.com: Berlin-based tech-focused hiring platform that matches candidates with European tech roles. Comparable DACH origin, SMB/enterprise customer overlap, and use of AI-driven candidate recommendations; narrower tech-vertical focus than inga.
• WorkGenius: Hamburg-based AI talent platform for matching and engaging freelance and permanent candidates. Comparable automated, AI-supported sourcing model for hard-to-fill roles and overlapping German Mittelstand customers.

Broad incumbents

• New Work SE (XING): Owner of XING, the dominant DACH professional network, with broad e-Recruiting and employer-branding offerings. inga distributes through XING as one of its paid channels and competes against New Work's recruiting solutions for the same Mittelstand and Konzerne budgets.
• LinkedIn Talent Solutions: Global recruiting product suite from LinkedIn (Microsoft), offering ads, InMail, and Recruiter. Ingrained in the same DACH enterprise RFPs as inga and inga explicitly markets against LinkedIn limitations (cost, irrelevant applications) for hard-to-fill roles.
• Stepstone (The Stepstone Group): Leading DACH and European job marketplace and operator of Stepstone, Totaljobs, and other boards. Competes for the same employer recruiting spend that inga targets with its 'postings don't reach passive candidates' positioning.
• Indeed: Global job-search and employer advertising platform. Ingrained in DACH HR budgets and the default incumbent against which inga differentiates on passive-candidate reach and pre-qualification.

Regional players

• JobCloud (jobs.ch / jobup.ch): Swiss job marketplace operator running jobs.ch and jobup.ch for Switzerland and similar platforms in adjacent markets. Relevant regional peer for inga's DACH expansion into the Swiss labor market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ingadotone
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ingadotone
• Instagraminstagram.com/ingadotone
• Facebookfacebook.com/ingadotone

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about inga.