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Brilliant AI
Hiring intelligence platform that combines AI interviews, assessments, reference checks, and candidate fraud detection
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.
Source: Dealroom company dataAt 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
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SERIES A✓Equity / VC | Nov 2021 | — | — | Okta Ventures | ↗ |
| SERIES A✓Equity / VC | Sep 2021 | $17M | $66M | Notable Capital · Sap.io · Bessemer Venture Partners · Rocketship | — |
Growth signals
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.
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Investments and acquisitions
Recent portfolio relationships for companies that also act as investors or acquirers.
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed5 investors entered at this stage
Series A12 investors entered at this stage
Slack Fund
Aaron Gordon
Intersect Capital
Klay Thompson- DMDK Metcalf
SAP
Nolan Arenado
Khris Middleton
Isaiah Thomas
Sap.io
Jack Altman- OVOkta Ventures
Other known investors1 additional known investor
Inner Loop Capital
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