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  "license": {
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Paraform: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/paraform/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/paraform/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/paraform.md",
  "title": "Paraform: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Paraform is on the AI hiring software map. We record 4 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Aug. 5, 2026.",
  "period": "June 24, 2025 to Aug. 5, 2026",
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    "summary": "\"Hire great people in days, not months.\" Paraform is a marketplace where 10,000+ expert recruiters and custom AI agents fill an employer's critical roles. The employer posts a role. Agents trained on past hiring outcomes (\"Paraform Hiring Intelligence\") give a shortlist of vetted candidates. Recruiters bring and vet candidates from their own networks. A dedicated talent strategist actively manages the search. The hiring team still interviews and decides. Recruiters get free AI sourcing, matching, CRM, a notetaker and a scheduler.",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Hire great people in days, not months.\" Paraform is a marketplace where 10,000+ expert recruiters and custom AI agents fill an employer's critical roles. The employer posts a role. Agents trained on past hiring outcomes (\"Paraform Hiring Intelligence\") give a shortlist of vetted candidates. Recruiters bring and vet candidates from their own networks. A dedicated talent strategist actively manages the search. The hiring team still interviews and decides. Recruiters get free AI sourcing, matching, CRM, a notetaker and a scheduler.",
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      "scale": "Enterprise incumbent: a public company or nine-figure revenue (Vendor says it crossed $100M in annualized revenue (2026-07-16) and has helped 1,000+ companies hire.)",
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      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/paraform/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-08-05",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Paraform launches Hiring Intelligence to power its agents",
      "summary": "Paraform introduced Hiring Intelligence, \"the data layer that powers every agent across our platform,\" built from real hiring outcomes. It says its agents produce a shortlist of vetted candidates and that companies meet their eventual hire in about 12 days.",
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/paraform/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-07-30",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Paraform adds Candidate-First tools for recruiters",
      "summary": "Recruiters can send a candidate they already know into roles across the platform, with AI-recommended roles, AI calibration of each candidate-role match and single submissions.",
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        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-paraform"
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      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/paraform/#event-3",
      "on": "2026-03-18",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Paraform raises $40M Series B, reaching $65M total",
      "summary": "Paraform announced its Series B, bringing total funding to $65M. Scale Venture Partners led, with Felicis, A* Capital and Liquid 2 Ventures. Paraform's about page lists the round as $40M. It calls itself \"an Agentic Hiring Platform where expert recruiters and intelligent AI systems collaborate.\"",
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      "id": "event-4",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/paraform/#event-4",
      "on": "2025-06-24",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Paraform raises $20M Series A",
      "summary": "Felicis led a $20M Series A with A*, BOND and Liquid 2, bringing total funding to $25M. Paraform said recruiters had earned $26M on the platform.",
      "kind": "Funding round",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-paraform"
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        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://www.paraform.com/blog/series-a-announcement"
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