Juicebox

HR Tech · San Francisco, US

AI search engine (PeopleGPT) that uses natural language to find qualified candidates for recruiting.

Founders

David Paffenholz (♂) — A Harvard economics grad who worked on growth at Snap, he co-founded Juicebox at 22 through Y Combinator (S22) to build PeopleGPT, an AI-powered recruiting search engine.
Ishan Gupta (♂) — A Dartmouth computer science student who worked as a software engineer at BlueLearn, he left school at 19 to co-found Juicebox and build its AI talent-sourcing technology.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Mar 2026	Series B Juicebox raised an $80M Series B led by DST Global at an $850M valuation to scale its AI recruiting platform.	$80M
Sep 2025	Series A Juicebox raised $30 million in a Series A led by Sequoia ($36 million total) for its AI recruiting search engine PeopleGPT.	$30M

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