Juicebox, a San Francisco, CA–based AI recruiting platform, has secured $30 million in a Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $36 million.
Investors
The round was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Coatue, NFDG, Y Combinator, Lux Capital, and BOND.
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The firm specializes in seed-stage, early-stage, and growth-stage investments across the technology sector. It focuses on helping founders build legendary companies from inception to IPO and beyond.
Juicebox Use of Funds
The company will scale operations, grow its team, and expand adoption of PeopleGPT to make AI-driven recruiting a core tool in every startup’s hiring stack.
About Juicebox
Founded in 2022 by David Paffenholz and Ishan Gupta, Juicebox is a San Francisco–based AI company reimagining recruitment with large language model–powered search. The company has built PeopleGPT, a search engine and agentic AI workflow that reasons over professional profiles, public data, and more to find talent and even handle outreach and scheduling. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Juicebox serves 2,500+ customers, including startups and larger firms like Ramp, Perplexity, and others.
Funding Details
Company: Juicebox
Raised: $30.0M
Round: Series A
Funding Date: September 2025
Lead Investor: Sequoia Capital
Additional Investors: Coatue, NFDG, Y Combinator, Lux Capital, BOND
Company Website: https://www.juicebox.ai/
Software Category: AI Recruiting / HR Tech
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/juicebox-raises-30m-from-sequoia-to-revolutionize-hiring-with-llm-powered-search/