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Killing LinkedIn with Agents, from the founding team of HootSuite. $2.5M contracted rev
Cedar is building the AI-native professional network. Recruiting is the wedge. The best talent doesn't apply. It gets referred. But referrals break as companies scale. Not from culture, but from math. Companies like Stripe threw 100 people and $10M a year at this problem. Cedar scales this with agents. Every 15-minute call maps an employee's trusted professional relationships, surfaces high-signal candidates, and deepens a graph no one else is building. Every customer makes it smarter. Traction: Closed $3M in revenue while in stealth. Team: Greg Gunn and Beier Cai built Hootsuite from 5 to 1,500 people and zero to $100M ARR in under four years. Referrals were their best channel. They collapsed at exactly the moment they needed them most. Advisors: Laszlo Bock (Google), Tiffany Fenster (Stripe), Brendan Browne (Replit).
Cedar positions itself as a talent introduction platform, partnering with teams to help them hire great people through introductions. The focus is on leveraging Cedar AI Agents to facilitate hiring, with a note of contracted revenue and a pedigree from HootSuite's founding team.
Cedar facilitates talent introductions by partnering with teams to help them hire great people. The upcoming Cedar AI Agents indicate an AI-assisted layer for talent outreach and matching, operating within terms of service and privacy policies.
Who it’s for: Teams and organizations looking to hire top talent via referrals and introductions, possibly within tech or growth-focused companies.
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Co-founder and CEO of Cedar. Built Hootsuite from 5 people to 1,500 and zero to $100M ARR in under four years.
Tech entrepreneur, Cofounder & CTO @ Cedar, @Commit.dev, @FirstCoin Capital. Founding engineer and senior director @ Hootsuite
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