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  "license": {
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Alex: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/alex/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/alex/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/alex.md",
  "title": "Alex: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Alex is on the AI hiring software map. We record 3 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated May 5, 2026.",
  "period": "Aug. 12, 2025 to May 5, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "summary": "\"Interview everyone. Hire the best.\" Alex (legal name Apriora Inc.) sells an AI recruiter that runs first-round interviews by phone, video, SMS and WhatsApp soon after a candidate applies, in 30 languages. It also screens resumes, scores applications for fraud, proctors interviews, checks ID against a live selfie, books calls and rediscovers past applicants in the ATS. Buyers are enterprise employers and staffing and RPO firms, across healthcare, manufacturing, retail and professional services. It does not sell an ATS.",
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    "text": "\"Interview everyone. Hire the best.\" Alex (legal name Apriora Inc.) sells an AI recruiter that runs first-round interviews by phone, video, SMS and WhatsApp soon after a candidate applies, in 30 languages. It also screens resumes, scores applications for fraud, proctors interviews, checks ID against a live selfie, books calls and rediscovers past applicants in the ATS. Buyers are enterprise employers and staffing and RPO firms, across healthcare, manufacturing, retail and professional services. It does not sell an ATS.",
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      "what": "\"Interview everyone. Hire the best.\" Alex (legal name Apriora Inc.) sells an AI recruiter that runs first-round interviews by phone, video, SMS and WhatsApp soon after a candidate applies, in 30 languages. It also screens resumes, scores applications for fraud, proctors interviews, checks ID against a live selfie, books calls and rediscovers past applicants in the ATS. Buyers are enterprise employers and staffing and RPO firms, across healthcare, manufacturing, retail and professional services. It does not sell an ATS.",
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          "url": "https://www.alex.com/blog/greenhouse"
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          "name": "alex.com",
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      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/alex/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-05-05",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Alex named to CB Insights AI 100",
      "summary": "Alex said it is the first recruiting software company on the CB Insights AI 100 list, describing itself as an agentic platform for phone screens, video interviews, fraud detection and notetaking.",
      "kind": "Research",
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        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-alex"
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        "name": "Vendor release (PR Newswire)",
        "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/alex-ai-named-to-the-2026-cb-insights-list-of-the-100-most-innovative-artificial-intelligence-startups-302762307.html"
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/alex/#event-2",
      "on": "2025-09-29",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Alex raises $17M Series A led by Peak XV",
      "summary": "Alex announced $20M in total funding: a $17M Series A led by Peak XV Partners and a $3M seed led by 1984 Ventures. It calls itself \"an AI recruiting partner that automates recruiter busywork.\"",
      "kind": "Funding round",
      "from": {
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        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-alex"
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        "name": "Vendor release (PR Newswire via Yahoo Finance)",
        "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alex-secures-20m-revolutionize-ai-190000937.html"
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    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/alex/#event-3",
      "on": "2025-08-12",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Alex passes third-party bias audit by Warden AI",
      "summary": "Alex said its AI interviewer passed an independent bias audit by Warden AI across race, ethnicity and gender, with consistent selection rates across groups.",
      "kind": "Research",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-alex"
      },
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        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://www.alex.com/blog/bias-audit"
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