Salesforce acquires AI recruiting startup Moonhub weeks after Informatica deal
Salesforce
, a
cloud-based software
company, acquired
AI-driven recruiting
startup
Moonhub
on Monday. The terms of the deal are not publicly known.
'Today, we are excited to announce the Moonhub team will be joining Salesforce. By joining Salesforce, we are accelerating our mission in this next chapter. Moonhub's talented team will play a key role in advancing Salesforce's
AI strategy
, including Agentforce,' the
company said
.
Founded in 2022 by Nancy Xu, a former Meta engineer, the Khosla ventures and Time Ventures-backed company specialises in developing AI-driven tools to automate and enhance the recruitment process.
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In a statement posted on its website on Monday, Moonhub announced that its entire team based in Menlo Park, California, will be joining Salesforce, one of the company's early investors.
The development comes soon after Salesforce's acquisition of cloud data management company
Informatica in an $8 billion equity deal
on May 27, and the purchase of Convergence. ai, an automation startup, to expand its AI product offerings.
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Xu has expressed concerns about AI bias on several forums. Moonhub's strategy has been about using AI not only to reduce bias within machines—but also to help humans make less biased decisions. Moonhub launched the world's first AI Recruiter, with the goal of helping startups and companies to hire exceptional talent. She had started working on the idea at Stanford's AI Lab when she was a PhD student.
At Moonhub, AI systems are designed with a "human-in-the-loop" approach, ensuring that ultimate decision-making remains with people. Xu believes that in most current AI applications, humans still play a critical role in final judgments, especially in areas like hiring.
Moonhub's AI strategy
Moonhub's approach is in stark contrast to traditional recruiting systems. Rather than relying on keyword-matching and rigid filters, its AI platform draws from data across the public web — including LinkedIn,
GitHub
, personal websites, and more — to build holistic candidate profiles.
Moonhub's AI can identify patterns — such as how many times someone has been promoted — from disparate, unstructured sources. Moonhub doesn't let clients filter by demographics like race, gender, or disability, nor does it promise specific diversity outcomes. Instead, its strength lies in identifying people with relevant skills who might not meet narrow or outdated search criteria. The company also works with clients to adjust how they write job descriptions.
According to Crunchbase, Moonhub has raised $14.4 million in funding from investors such as Khosla Ventures, AIX Ventures, Day One Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Salesforce.
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