Lever is a software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and Toronto, Canada that provides an applicant tracking system for hiring. It was founded in 2012 by Nate Smith, Sarah Nahm, Randal Truong, and Brian Noguchi. It is backed by an advisory board which includes Aaron Levie, Marissa Mayer, and

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Funding and History

Smith began Lever in 2012 and was accepted into Y Combinator with the goal of applying this framework to the problem of hiring talent. Smith connected with Nahm and Truong through

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and Google networks. All three had previously worked at technology companies. In September 2012, Lever raised $2.8 million in a seed round led by

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. Other investors included Marissa Mayer (CEO of Yahoo!), Aaron Levie (CEO and co-founder of Box),

(CEO and co-founder of Yelp), and Y Combinator. In October 2014, Lever raised $10 million in its series A round led by

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. Other investors included SV Angel, Redpoint Ventures, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, and Khosla general partners Keith Rabois and Ben Ling. In Jan 2016, Lever announced it raised a $20 million Series B led by Scale Venture Partners. In 2021, Lever raised $50 million in a Series D round led by Apax Digital Fund. In August 2022, Lever was acquired by Employ Inc. for an undisclosed sum.

Software

Lever is an applicant tracking system. The Lever Hire and Lever Nurture features allow customers to grow their network of potential hires. Lever Analytics allows customers to access customized reports with data visualization, completed offers, and interview feedback. Lever offers a number of integrations. It first launched integrations with

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and Namely in 2015. It followed up in 2016 with integrations for

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, Entelo, Hired, Zenefits, and others. Today, Lever offers over 300 integrations.

Customers

As of 2021, Lever customers included Netflix, Atlassian,

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, and

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Awards and recognition

* Named one of the "Top 100 Software Companies of 2021" by ''The Software Report'' * Listed as the "Overall Remote Team Hiring Platform of the Year" by ''RemoteTech'' * Named "AMERICA’S BEST STARTUP EMPLOYERS" by ''Forbes'' * Certified as a Great Place to Work by ''Great Place to Work''

References

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* {{Authority control American companies established in 2012 Privately held companies of the United States Recruitment software Companies based in San Francisco Software companies based in California Software companies of the United States Apax Partners companies