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Juicebox
AI-native people search and recruiting agents (PeopleGPT)
About Juicebox
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) is a San Francisco AI recruiting company co-founded by CEO David Paffenholz and Ishan that builds natural-language people search, outreach workflows and autonomous Juicebox Agents so talent teams source, assess and engage candidates across hundreds of millions of profiles without Boolean filters. Customers named in company materials include Ramp, Quora, Perplexity, Cursor, Cognition, Samsara and Fortune 100 employers among 5,000+ recruiting teams. After a previously unannounced $6 million seed led by NFDG, Juicebox in September 2025 raised a $30 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital with Coatue, NFDG, Y Combinator, Lux Capital and BOND ($36 million total at that stage). In March 2026 it raised an $80 million Series B at an $850 million valuation led by DST Global, with Sequoia, Verified Capital, Committed Capital, NFDG, Coatue and Y Combinator, bringing total capital raised to about $116 million to scale Agents, sequencing, talent insights and global expansion. Sources: Juicebox blog Series A Sep 2025 / Series B Mar 2026; TechCrunch Sep 2025.
Source: Dealroom company dataAt a glance
- Founded
- 2022
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sector
- AI
- Power Law
- Colt$25–100M revenue
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed3 investors entered at this stage
Y Combinator- JTjtangoVC
- NFNFDG
Series A6 investors entered at this stage
Pareto Holdings
Sequoia
Lux Capital
Coatue Management
Bond
DST Global
Series B and later2 investors entered at this stage
- DST Global
- AGAI Grant
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