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Gem (YC S17) — Talent engagement platform

Gem’s talent engagement platform helps recruiting teams use data and automation to improve hiring speed, quality, and diversity. Gem unifies data and context from the tools recruiters use every day, including email, applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn, and other social networks, to create a source of truth for all talent relationships.

Gem is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2017 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Talent engagement platform. The founder listed is Steven Bartel (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, May 25, 2017).

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Gem

New accelerator entry · 2017-05-25 · the record

Summer 2017
batch
200
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchSummer 2017
Announced2017-05-25
StageGrowth
StatusAcquired
Team size200
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Recruiting and Talent
SectorsSaaS, B2B, Recruiting
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://www.gem.com/
Founded2017
Previously known asZenSourcer

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Gem’s talent engagement platform helps recruiting teams use data and automation to improve hiring speed, quality, and diversity. Gem unifies data and context from the tools recruiters use every day, including email, applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn, and other social networks, to create a source of truth for all talent relationships. Armed with insights about the entire recruiting process, automation to reach out to talent at scale, and true cross-functional collaboration tools, TA teams can proactively and strategically plan for what’s ahead. Gem's customers are savvy recruiting teams from industry-leading companies — like Wayfair, Dropbox, Nasdaq, Cisco, and Doordash — who understand that hiring the best talent in the market is key to maintaining their competitive advantage.

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