Celebrating Milestones That Strengthen Our Mission to Transform Hiring
In an industry defined by constant change, recognition is never the goal, but it can serve as a meaningful marker that we are moving in the right direction. At Hello Recruiter, our ambition has always been simple: build technology that makes hiring more human, more efficient, and more strategic for organizations that operate at scale.
This month, we are incredibly honored and humbled to share a milestone that powerfully validates this mission. In September 2025, Startup Grind’s Fort Lauderdale Chapter named Hello Recruiter the ‘Startup of the Year.’
For us, this is a major recognition. Startup Grind is a globally respected community with a decade-plus history of championing innovation, and to be recognized by them reinforces our commitment to the HR leaders we serve.
This honor is also beautifully complemented by another recent award. Earlier this summer, on June 13, 2025, Venture Miami honored our platform with the ‘Best AI Model’ award.
Together, these recognitions paint a full picture: they are validation for our vision and scalability (Startup Grind) and for the precision technology that powers it (Venture Miami). For us, these awards reflect the vision and feedback of the HR community that continues to shape Hello Recruiter from day one. Every feature we build and refine is rooted in the realities CHROs, TA leaders, and People Operations teams face daily: rising hiring volumes, shrinking talent pools, efficiency pressures, and the growing expectation to deliver measurable impact.
What ‘Startup of the Year’ by Startup Grind Means for us and our customers?
Startup Grind is a global community of innovators and entrepreneurs. To be recognized by them is to be recognized for our vision, our execution, and our scalability. As an HR leader, you are not just buying software, you are choosing a partner. You need to know that partner will be here tomorrow, innovating, listening, and growing with you.
This award is your assurance that:
We Have a Sustainable Vision: We are building a long-term solution to a permanent-state problem.
We Are Scalable: We are built to support global, medium-to-large-scale companies. Our infrastructure, team, and vision are designed to handle your volume and complexity.
We Are Obsessed with the Mission: This award is for our team's relentless focus on solving your biggest hiring headaches. It’s a win for our mission to make hiring equitable and efficient for everyone.
What ‘Best AI Model’ award by Venture Miami Really Means?
If the Startup Grind award validates our mission and scalability, the Venture Miami award for ‘Best AI Model’ speaks to the engine that makes it all possible. It’s the ‘how’ behind our ability to deliver.
We believe AI should not replace the recruiter. It should amplify their judgment. For our partners, this translates to:
Radical Accuracy: Our model is a precision instrument that understands context, skills, and potential. This is the ‘how’ behind our ability to reduce unqualified candidates by over 90%, giving you a shortlist of gems, not just a pile of resumes.
Bias-Free Screening: A ‘best’ model, in our opinion, must be a fair model. This award validates our mission to create AI that verifiably reduces bias. It’s an AI that is blind to names, schools, and gendered language, focusing only on the skills and competencies that predict success.
Bad Actor Detection: Your time is too valuable to be wasted on fraudulent applications. Our AI’s 99.9% accuracy in detecting bad actors means your team spends its time on what matters: engaging with real, high-potential candidates.
Of course, behind these recognitions is a community of customers and advisors who trusted a young company with their hiring challenges and enabled us to build every capability with discipline and empathy.
We are honored and more energized than ever to continue supporting organizations as they design the future of work.
If you would like to explore how these advances can strengthen your recruitment function, please get in touch.
