What Hirect does

Hirect is a mobile, chat-based hiring platform founded in 2018 that connects job candidates directly with startup founders and CEOs. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and operates a dual-hub model with significant presence in India, where co-founder Raj Das serves as Global Founder & Indian CEO. The platform's core value proposition is eliminating traditional recruiting friction by enabling real-time, direct messaging-based interactions between candidates and startup decision-makers, targeting the early-stage startup hiring market where speed and cultural fit are critical.

The product is delivered as a mobile application built around an instant-chat interface, with an explicit focus on startup culture fit and high-velocity hiring. Brady Xu serves as CEO, while Raj Das leads India operations as Global Founder & Indian CEO. The platform is positioned as an alternative to traditional job boards and enterprise applicant tracking systems, leveraging founder-direct engagement to compress hiring cycles that would otherwise run through recruiters or HR teams.

Hirect's business model is a two-sided recruitment marketplace monetizing the connection between startup employers and job-seeking candidates, though specific pricing models (subscription, per-hire, freemium) and revenue mechanics are not disclosed in the available data. The company has scaled to 501-1,000 employees, indicating significant operational investment relative to its founding year. Notable backers include Tiger Global Management, DST Global, Hill Capital Partners, and Tencent, with Tiger Global and Tencent having led separate rounds in February 2022 — a signal of high-growth investor confidence during the 2021-2022 tech hiring boom.

Name

Hirect

Website

https://hirect.in

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Recruitment Platform

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Professional & Technical Direct Hire (IT, Engineering, Finance, Healthcare) (BPACAFAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Remote & Global/Multilingual Direct Hire (BPACAFAO), Sales, Marketing & Customer Success Direct Hire (BPACAFAD)

Keywords

• Chat-based hiring app
• Recruitment platform
• Candidate matching software
• Mobile job search
• Startup hiring tools

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Copper Conductor Product Sales: Revenue generated from the sale of manufactured copper conductor products including CTC, PICC, and EPICC product lines to industrial customers in power and railway sectors.

Core offering

Hirect operates a mobile, chat-based hiring application that directly connects job candidates with startup founders and CEOs. The platform enables instant two-way communication between employers and applicants, streamlining recruitment for early-stage and growth-stage startups. It is positioned as a real-time hiring marketplace rather than a traditional job board.

Product overview

Hirect offers a portfolio of three copper conductor product lines manufactured at its newly commissioned copper processing plant. The product lines—Continuously Transposed Conductors (CTC), Paper Insulated Copper Conductors (PICC), and Enameled Paper Insulated Copper Conductors (EPICC)—serve power transformers, traction motors, and high-power wound components for grid, railway rolling stock, and catenary power supply systems. All products feature configurable technical specifications including 5 to 63 strands per conductor and insulation options spanning four enamel types with paper wrapping up to 32 layers, supported by the ISO 9001:2015 certified manufacturing facility.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hirect Chat-Based Hiring App Mobile chat-based hiring application designed for startups, enabling instant direct messaging between candidates and founders/CEOs to facilitate rapid recruitment and candidate evaluation.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Indeed: Indeed is the largest global job search and direct-hire platform. It serves employers of all sizes including startups, and competes with Hirect for both candidate traffic and employer demand, though without a chat-based mobile-first UX.
• LinkedIn: LinkedIn (Microsoft) is the dominant professional network and recruiter hiring platform globally. It overlaps with Hirect across direct-hire sourcing and recruiter tools, though it serves all industries rather than specializing in startups.
• Naukri: Naukri (InfoEdge) is the dominant Indian job board and recruitment platform. It competes with Hirect in India across all job categories including tech/startup hiring, with deep employer relationships and significant traffic advantages.
• ZipRecruiter: ZipRecruiter is a public direct-hire and job marketplace platform with AI-driven candidate matching. It competes with Hirect in the small-business and startup hiring segment with broader geographic reach and a large marketing budget.

Emerging players

• Remote: Remote provides global employer-of-record and direct-hire infrastructure for distributed teams. While its model is more infrastructure-led, it overlaps with Hirect in enabling startups to hire global talent directly outside traditional agency channels.
• Turing: Turing is a remote engineering hiring marketplace that connects companies with vetted global developers. It overlaps with Hirect in direct-hire placement of technical talent, particularly for startups seeking distributed engineering teams.

Direct peers

• Hired: Hired is a curated two-sided marketplace for technology talent where companies apply to candidates. Its model overlaps directly with Hirect's direct-hire positioning in tech and startup hiring, particularly for software engineering roles.
• Wellfound: Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent) is a direct-hire marketplace connecting startup candidates with startup founders. It is the closest US-comparable peer to Hirect in serving early-stage and growth-stage hiring with a direct-to-founder model.

Regional players

• Instahyre: Instahyre is an India-focused tech hiring platform that connects candidates with employers via a recruiter-augmented model. It is a direct regional competitor to Hirect in the Indian tech/startup hiring market.
• Cutshort: Cutshort is an India-based AI-driven tech hiring marketplace for startups and product companies. It is comparable to Hirect in geographic focus and target customer segment (Indian tech/startup employers and candidates).

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hirectapp
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/glitzstar

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors4 records

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 →

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