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Conversational AI Recruitment Platform AllyO Announces $45M Series B

As the labor market gets tighter and wages get higher, recruiters are getting tired—or at least I imagine they are. But luckily for those folks tasked with plugging humans into roles, what can be automated is being funded.

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, an AI recruiting startup, has announced today a $45M Series B. The startup automates scheduling of interviews and sourcing of talent using conversational AI, and it also has a data dashboard that shows how applicants moved through the hiring funnel.

AllyO raised its round from a number of notable investors, including , , and , among others. It has raised $64 million in total funding.

As a consequence of its latest round of funding, the startup stated in a press release it “expects that more than 15 percent of Americans will find their next job using AllyO in 2020.”

½ûÂþÌìÌà News has covered the recruitment sector a number of times, specifically digging into the implications AI will have on recruiters and the hiring process overall. ZipRecruiter CEO Ian Siegel told ½ûÂþÌìÌà News that “the dawn of robot recruiting” is upon us.

However, that doesn’t mean AI will replace recruiters wholesale. Siegel noted that having a real human recruit is still an “intoxicating” tactic, especially for those jobs that require more high-demand skills.

The big question is how these startups will fare in a slackened labor market. But presuming AllyO does capture 15 percent of Americans looking for their next job in 2020, it may not matter.

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