The hiring process is fundamentally broken. On average, it takes companies 11 weeks to fill open positions, while candidates deal with unanswered emails, slow or no feedback, and a redundant application process. It’s an ineffective cycle, with 40% of job seekers reporting being ghosted after second or third interviews – up 30% from 2022.

This isn’t just an inconvenience – it’s a systemic failure that’s costing businesses precious time and money while crushing candidate morale.

For businesses and staffing agencies, especially those supporting high-turnover industries like manufacturing, airports, and restaurants, slow hiring means unfilled roles that stall productivity and lost talent to faster-moving competitors. For candidates, especially working parents and students, traditional business-hour interviews and lengthy processes create barriers to hundreds of opportunities.

We’re here to change that.

Introducing Ribbon—the first AI-powered hiring platform designed to streamline the hiring process while keeping it fair, efficient, and, most importantly, human.

Ribbon’s AI-native platform conducts screening interviews for enterprises, helping employers quickly identify top talent while ensuring a candidate-first experience.

If LinkedIn is the go-to professional network for white-collar and tech, Ribbon is the definitive hiring platform for everyone else. Backed by $8M in new funding from Radical Ventures, with participation from Social Leverage, Cadenza Ventures, and GD1, we’re building the future of hiring.

How Ribbon works

Voice interviews deliver high-density information—just five minutes of conversation can provide the same depth and context as an hour spent filling out applications.

Our platform focuses on two key innovations:

The results speak for themselves

Companies using Ribbon–like Fuze HR, LAZ Parking, First Brands Group, and Propel Impact– have seen:

Ribbon has revolutionized how we recruit. Rather than relying on written applications to screen prospective Fellows and Analysts, Ribbon has allowed us to get to know them in a more personable and accessible way. By using Ribbon.ai and reducing our reliance on written assessments, we have been able to gauge candidates’ genuine interest and passion in a way that also makes recruitment more fun.”

– Cheralyn Chok, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Propel Impact.

More than just hiring 

At its core, Ribbon isn’t just about making hiring faster–it’s about making it better.

Our technology doesn’t replace human recruiters or make final hiring decisions – instead, it allows recruiters to spend less time on unqualified applicants and more time engaging with the right ones. 

We’ve assembled a world-class team with backgrounds in deep tech, AI, recruitment, and customer experience—bringing together expertise from leading organizations such as Amazon, Ezra, Coursera, and RoseRocket—to execute this vision and fundamentally change how companies build their teams and how people discover their next opportunity. Having worked as both hiring managers and candidates, we understand firsthand how inefficient, impersonal, and frustrating the process can be – no one wants to spend months filling out 50+ job applications. 

We’re here to fix it.

If you believe hiring should be faster, fairer, and more human, we’d love to connect. Visit Ribbon.ai to learn more about how to add AI into your hiring process.

And we’re looking beyond just hiring – we’re building the infrastructure that will enable people to move between opportunities with minimal friction, giving them the chance to pursue work they’re passionate about. The future of work is evolving, with project-based employment and flexible arrangements becoming more frequent, and Ribbon can ensure both businesses and new hires adapt to a quicker, streamlined process. Finding your next role could eventually be as easy as ordering your morning coffee.