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Brilliant AI

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Hiring intelligence platform that combines AI interviews, assessments, reference checks, and candidate fraud detection

San Francisco, United StatesFounded 2018Jobs Recruitment
Valuation $50–100M Last recorded · 2021
Headcount <100 Current team size
Total funding $10–50M Disclosed equity funding
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About Brilliant AI

Brilliant AI, previously known as Crosschq, is a hiring intelligence platform formed from Crosschq, ApplicantX, and Traitify. It connects pre-hire signals to post-hire employee outcomes in one system, combining agentic interviews, behavioral and cognitive assessments, reference intelligence, candidate identity and fraud protection, and quality-of-hire analytics. The company says the platform is trained on more than 200 million hiring outcomes, serves more than 500 organizations, and integrates with more than 40 HR and talent systems including Workday, Oracle, SAP, iCIMS, Greenhouse, and Salesforce. Crosschq, ApplicantX, and Traitify continue to operate under their existing product names for customers. Founded in 2018 by Michael Fitzsimmons and Pete Goettner, it sells the software to employers.

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At a glance

Status
Operational
Founded
2018
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Employees
71
Open positions
1
Dealroom signal
74.7/100
Industry
Jobs Recruitment
Sector
Jobs Recruitment, Information Technology, Human Resources
Client focus
b2b
Investment activity
2 companies, latest Mar 2026
Capital deployed
—
Preferred round
ACQUISITION

Funding history

5 recorded events

Company financing events and reported valuations.

Deal typeDateAmountValuationInvestorsSource
SERIES A✓Equity / VC Nov 2021 — — Okta Ventures ↗
SERIES A✓Equity / VC Sep 2021 $17M $66M Notable Capital · Sap.io · Bessemer Venture Partners · Rocketship —
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Growth signals

Brilliant AI website traffic

Latest recorded traffic for Brilliant AI is 260K monthly website visits, up 36.8% over the last three months. Brilliant AI's team grew 7.6% over the past year.

Latest monthly visits260K 3-month web change+36.8% 1-year team growth+7.6%
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Investors

18 investors on the cap table

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Seed5 investors entered at this stage

Series A12 investors entered at this stage

  • Slack Fund
  • Aaron Gordon
  • Intersect Capital
  • Klay Thompson
  • DK Metcalf
  • SAP
  • Nolan Arenado
  • Khris Middleton
  • Isaiah Thomas
  • Sap.io
  • Jack Altman
  • Okta Ventures

Other known investors1 additional known investor

  • Inner Loop Capital
Team profiled 13 named & role-tagged
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Key operators 3 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
5 countries with
team presence
🇦🇷 Argentina54%
🇺🇸 United States41.3%
🇧🇷 Brazil1.6%
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina1.6%
🇪🇸 Spain1.6%
5 countries shown

Market sentiment

Posts on X, past 7 days

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