Talentdrop
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Talentdrop was a San Francisco recruiting-software startup offering a human-centric, network-based hiring platform. Hiring managers could share personal hiring pages so trusted connections could drop referrals directly into a private pipeline, and the platform used AI to assist with screening and scheduling. Open roles carried cash bounties paid to referrers when their candidates were hired.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Talentdrop is founded in San Francisco to make hiring more human-centric through network-based referrals.
- Accelerator and seed funding
The company joins Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch and raises early-stage funding, reporting about $1 million in referral bounties posted on the platform.
- Liquidation
PitchBook records a completed bankruptcy liquidation for Talentdrop on 20 December 2023; the company is listed as out of business.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
The company raised about $2.1 million in total, including a $125,000 accelerator round and early-stage venture funding.
- 02
On 20 December 2023 PitchBook records a completed bankruptcy liquidation; the company is listed as out of business with five employees at the end.