Searchlight

Searchlight

San Francisco, CA, USA
1 employees
Administrative Services
Series A · $19.5M

About Searchlight

Searchlight's Predictive Talent Platform provides assessments and analytics to help companies improve hiring efficiency and effectiveness. Searchlight’s powerful People Science Engine measures and improves Quality of Hire by connecting candidate reference and self-assessment data to post-hire outcomes. Searchlight’s connected talent intelligence system pulls employee outcome data – such as enablement, performance, and belonging – back into the recruiting process to surface predictive signals like competencies and soft skills. These real-time insights enable organizations to continuously learn as they hire and retain the right people. Searchlight is on a people-first mission to make hiring a win-win for everyone by understanding talent better.

Company details

Team Size1
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
IndustryAdministrative Services

Funding

Total raised

$19.5M

Last stage

Series A

Investors

Founders Fund
Accel
Y Combinator
SShasta Ventures
Kapor Capital

Founders

AW

Anna Wang

Co-Founder & CTO of Searchlight. Stanford BS in Computer Science and MS in Artificial Intelligence. Previously APM at Google, Software Engineer at Uber, and management consultant at McKinsey. Forbes 2021 30 Under 30 honoree.

Kerry Wang

Kerry Wang

Co-Founder & CEO of Searchlight. Stanford MS in Computer Science and BA in Human Biology. Previously Product Sales Lead at Google and management consultant at McKinsey. Forbes 2021 30 Under 30 honoree.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.