Circular

circular.io ↗ ·Madrid ·Series A

Circular is a Madrid-based recruitment platform for hiring technical talent. It runs a network where in-house recruiters recommend strong tech candidates they could not hire themselves, and other companies in the network can then hire those candidates. Pedro Torrecillas and Teo Ruiz founded the company in Madrid in 2018. By early 2022 more than 5,500 in-house recruiters had joined, including recruiters from companies such as Inditex, and the network listed more than 19,000 candidates. It operates in Madrid, Barcelona and London, and in 2022 it bought the Paris-based RecruitersClub. Point Nine and LocalGlobe backed Circular at pre-seed in 2019. In 2022 Kibo Ventures led a $7.5M Series A with Point Nine, LocalGlobe, All Iron Ventures, eFounders, Kima Ventures and Shilling, bringing total funding to about $10M.

Founded

2018

Founders

Total funds raised

$7.5M+

SectorsHR Tech, Recruitment, Marketplace Start-up MapHR & Future of Work › Recruiting & candidate screening

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Founders

Pedro Torrecillas

Co-founder & CEO

Teo Ruiz

Co-founder, CTO & CPO

Global models 4

Hired

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Triplebyte

United States · triplebyte.com ↗

Tech-hiring network that pre-screened engineers and passed them to many client companies for a placement fee, similar to Circular's pool of vetted tech candidates.

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Paraform

United States · www.paraform.com ↗

Network marketplace where recruiters bring candidates to companies hiring for tech roles and are paid when a hire is made, close to Circular's recruiter-sourced hiring model.

$24MComparable

talent.io

France · www.talent.io ↗

European tech-recruitment marketplace that charges companies a fee to hire from a curated pool of tech candidates, the same buyer and revenue model as Circular.

$20MComparable