Kello

What Kello does

Kello (legally XXV Century Private Limited) is an AI-native talent sourcing and recruiting platform headquartered in Bengaluru, India. The company targets enterprise and growth-stage hiring teams — recruiters, HR functions, and hiring managers — that need to rediscover past applicants, evaluate large candidate pools, and run high-volume technical hiring. Its flagship product, Kello Picks, is an autonomous AI sourcing agent: a recruiter emails a job description and receives a reviewed shortlist of approximately 30 candidates within 60 minutes, drawn from a claimed database of more than 100 million profiles.

The product portfolio extends beyond sourcing. Kello Search delivers natural-language semantic search across resumes and application data, replacing keyword matching with meaning-based retrieval and per-candidate relevance explainers. Talent Pool is a centralized, automatically updated database aggregating past applicants, referrals, and inbound contacts from Gmail, Google Forms, Google Drive, LinkedIn Easy Apply, and connected ATS systems. Code Sight evaluates engineering candidates by scanning public GitHub repositories using SonarQube and in-house models to assess code quality, tech stack, and security patterns. Job Analytics provides funnel and source-performance dashboards. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server makes the Kello workspace queryable from Claude and ChatGPT via OAuth. The underlying NLP stack relies on paid third-party APIs from OpenAI and Google Gemini for parsing, summarization, and search, while code analysis uses in-house models. The company carries Google CASA Tier 2 certification for restricted-scope access to Gmail, Google Forms, and Google Drive.

Revenue is generated via subscription pricing billed through order forms or an online checkout flow, with automatic renewal and non-refundable fees. A freemium entry point — the first two jobs are free — is paired with a self-serve, product-led growth motion aimed at enterprise buyers. Distribution combines direct web self-service, email-based JD intake, and AI-assistant channels via MCP. Kello raised seed funding from Peak XV Partners in February 2026 as one of five AI startups selected at the Impact AI PitchFest during the India AI Impact Summit.

Name

Kello

Legal name

XXV Century Private Limited

Website

https://kello.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Kello is an AI-native recruiting platform that helps enterprise hiring teams source and evaluate candidates using autonomous AI agents across 100M+ profiles, with ATS integrations, GitHub-based engineering evaluation, and MCP connectors to Claude and ChatGPT.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bangalore

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Subscription Services: Subscription-based revenue model with fees set out in Order Forms or checkout flow. Billed in advance with automatic renewal for successive terms. Non-refundable fees except where required by law.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Kello provides an AI-powered talent sourcing and candidate intelligence platform for recruiting and hiring teams. Customers email a job description to Kello and within 60 minutes receive 30 reviewed candidates drawn from a database of 100M+ profiles, supported by an AI search engine, a unified Talent Pool, engineering-specific Code Sight analysis, and ATS/workflow integrations. The product portfolio is delivered as subscription software with a freemium entry tier (first two jobs free) and a separately priced TalentGPT paid offering for candidate discovery and outreach.

Product overview

Kello is an AI-powered talent intelligence platform for recruiting and hiring teams. The product portfolio consists of a unified platform with multiple integrated modules: Kello Picks (AI sourcing agent that delivers 30 reviewed candidates in 60 minutes), TalentGPT (AI candidate discovery with proprietary datasets), Talent Pool (centralized candidate database), Kello Search (natural language search), Job Analytics (hiring metrics dashboards), Code Sight (GitHub-based engineer evaluation), and MCP server integration for AI assistants. Users can also connect via integrations to Gmail, Google Forms, Google Drive, LinkedIn Easy Apply, and ATS platforms (Lever, Greenhouse, Freshteams).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kello Picks: AI sourcing agent that reviews 100M profiles and delivers 30 candidates worth calling within 60 minutes by email a job description
• TalentGPT
• Code Sight
• Kello MCP

Products and services

• Kello Picks (AI Sourcing Agent) Autonomous AI sourcing agent for recruiting and hiring teams; customers email a job description and receive 30 reviewed candidates worth calling within 60 minutes, each with a thesis and anti-thesis, sourced from a 100M+ profile database.
• TalentGPT Paid AI-powered candidate discovery and search product that provides access to Kello's proprietary candidate datasets for sourcing candidates across open roles, with outreach automation subject to candidate consent.
• Code Sight Automated GitHub code review tool that analyzes engineering candidates' public repositories for tech stack, code quality, hygiene, test discipline, and security patterns, supporting engineering hiring without take-home tests.

Quantifiable outcome

• 30 candidates delivered in 60 minutes per job description
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

AI capability6 records

Feature11 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• HireEZ: HireEZ (formerly Hiretual) is an AI sourcing platform that delivers candidate recommendations from a large profile dataset with workflow automation for outreach. Like Kello, it competes on speed-of-sourcing, AI matching, and ATS integration, targeting in-house recruiting teams.
• Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent): Wellfound is a startup- and tech-focused talent marketplace with AI-driven matching for engineering and product hiring. Like Kello, it specializes in tech talent and emphasizes candidate quality over volume, making it a comparable peer for engineering-hiring use cases.
• Gem: Gem is a recruiting platform combining AI sourcing, CRM, and analytics with deep ATS integrations (Greenhouse, Lever, Workday). It directly competes with Kello on AI sourcing, talent pool centralization, and pipeline analytics for in-house talent acquisition teams.
• Fetcher: Fetcher is an AI-driven recruiting automation platform that sources candidates and runs outbound campaigns with minimal recruiter effort. It shares Kello's PLG-friendly positioning, AI-sourcing focus, and emphasis on automated sourcing-then-outreach workflows.
• SeekOut: SeekOut is an AI-powered talent sourcing and recruiting platform that searches across 800M+ public profiles and candidate databases to surface qualified candidates. It is a direct competitor to Kello Picks with overlapping capabilities in AI sourcing, candidate rediscovery, and engineering-hiring evaluation.

Broad incumbents

• Eightfold AI: Eightfold AI is a talent intelligence platform covering sourcing, internal mobility, and workforce planning using deep-learning models on a global skills graph. It is a broader incumbent than Kello but operates in the same AI-native recruiting category with significant overlap on candidate matching and skills inference.
• Greenhouse: Greenhouse is a leading ATS with growing native sourcing, CRM, and analytics capabilities and a strong enterprise install base. Kello has a two-way sync integration with Greenhouse in testing, positioning Greenhouse as both partner and competitive incumbent.
• Lever: Lever is an established ATS with built-in sourcing, CRM, and analytics functionality serving mid-market and enterprise customers. Kello already runs live two-way sync with Lever, making Lever both a critical distribution partner and a broad incumbent competing for the same recruiting-tech budget.
• LinkedIn Recruiter: LinkedIn Recruiter is the dominant incumbent in sourcing, owning the largest professional network and tight ATS integrations. It represents the strategic ceiling Kello must displace with AI-native speed and pricing, and owns the candidate data source Kello is competing against.

Emerging players

• CodeSignal: CodeSignal is a technical assessment platform that evaluates engineering candidates via standardized tests and AI-assisted scoring. It is most directly comparable to Kello's Code Sight feature, with overlapping value in automating engineering candidate evaluation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kello-ai

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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 →

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