# Laborup: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/laborup/
Covers: Aug. 28, 2025
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Laborup: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/laborup/, updated 2026-11-11

> Laborup is on the AI hiring software map. We record 1 dated launch or event for it. The latest is dated Aug. 28, 2025.

"Industrial ambition needs a workforce." Laborup sells manufacturers an "AI workforce platform" that joins its own network of skilled industrial workers with AI agents that find, engage and qualify machinists, welders, mechanics and maintenance technicians. A voice-first AI system interviews workers who are often missed by online networks and verifies their skills and certifications. It also offers labor market intelligence. It does not publish whether it charges per hire or by subscription. Source: [laborup.com](https://www.laborup.com/).

## Facts

- Site: [laborup.com](https://www.laborup.com/)
- Category: Hourly and frontline hiring
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-laborup)

"Industrial ambition needs a workforce." Laborup sells manufacturers an "AI workforce platform" that joins its own network of skilled industrial workers with AI agents that find, engage and qualify machinists, welders, mechanics and maintenance technicians. A voice-first AI system interviews workers who are often missed by online networks and verifies their skills and certifications. It also offers labor market intelligence. It does not publish whether it charges per hire or by subscription. Source: [laborup.com](https://www.laborup.com/).

- Category: Hourly and frontline hiring
- Price: not published; sales-led
- AI capabilities: Named agents, AI interviews, AI analytics, Screening and ranking, AI outreach and AI sourcing
- Scale: Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed ($7.7M seed led by NVP (2025); about 20 named industrial customers)

Sources: [laborup.com](https://www.laborup.com/), [getcoai.com](https://getcoai.com/news/laborup-raises-7-7m-to-solve-us-manufacturing-worker-shortage-with-ai/) and [haslam.utk.edu](https://haslam.utk.edu/news/ut-alums-ai-hiring-platform-raises-7-7m-in-capital-investments/).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### Laborup raises seed round led by NVP, bringing total to $7.7M

Funding round, Aug. 28, 2025. Laborup said it has raised $7.7M in total, with its latest seed round led by NVP, for an agentic, voice-first AI that sources, interviews and verifies machinists, welders and technicians. Customers quoted include Colortech and MSC Industrial Supply.

Source: [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariashunina/2025/08/28/how-ai-is-solving-americas-1-trillion-manufacturing-labor-crisis/). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-laborup).

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