Syelo Ventures

AI will change how we source. AI will change how we schedule. AI may even change how we screen. But AI will never replace the one thing that makes recruiters best in class: The relationships we build. The recruiters who will thrive in the AI age aren’t just the ones who adopt every new tool, they’re the ones who have strong, lasting relationships with top-tier candidates and trusted peers. That’s the future we’re building for with TalentDex. 📁 A forever ATS - your network, organized and searchable ⚡ A Chrome extension to capture talent instantly 🤝 Private pods to share and source talent with people you trust AI is powerful, but relationships are timeless. 👉 Try TalentDex free: www.talentdex.ai

So excited that Syelo Ventures is partnering with Kula on this event. It's going to be an incredible conversation with some of the most innovative minds in the ecosystem. If you are in the bay on September 25th we'd love for you to join!

Very excited to welcome our very first cohort to the Syelo Ventures accelerator! We're very proud to be partnering with: 1. Puck 2. Endorsed 3. SCALIS 4. TalentDex 5. Aster (Stealth) Over the next few weeks I am going to be sharing a lot more about these companies, what makes them special, and potentially even special trials/discounting for folks who want to give these products a whirl! A massive shoutout to Sabrina Baez and the Venture Partners at Syelo for spearheading this endeavor. Stay tuned!!

Another successful month and I am so proud of the Kula team as they continually & successfully win and poach new clients from the existing incumbents. Here's the thing, and the core reason we chose to invest Syelo Ventures, Kula is the *only* AI native ATS in the game with real traction and marketshare. As every legacy product/software on earth gets eaten by AI, the tools that are AI first will thrive and dominate. If you are not using an AI native ATS, you're using dinosaur tech to power your recruiting function.

The most underrated art of recruiting is storytelling. When you have a great story, a great mission, recruiting talent becomes 10x easier. People want to believe in what they do, they want to feel that their work matters, they want to point to something their proud of and say, "I did that." Not every company is blessed with a great story. It's hard to sell the vision of tax software. But every company has the opportunity to paint a big picture. Every company has the potential to be more than what they are and it's a recruiters job to suss out the gems of that story. A great recruiter understands your vision, they understand the opportunity, and they create a narrative that inspires the best people to take that phone call just to hear the story. If it's good enough, they might just buy into it.

💡 If your talent data lives in 6 different places… You don’t have a talent pool - you have a scavenger hunt. 🕵️♀️ Every recruiter knows the drill: 📊 Spreadsheets that are half-updated 💬 LinkedIn messages buried in “See older messages” 🗒 Notes hidden deep in an ATS 📧 Email threads you swear you’ll come back to The cost? ❌ Lost candidates ⏳ Delayed hiring 🐌 A slower process for everyone involved We've all been there, which is exactly why we built TalentDex. ✅ Recruiter-built ✅ Centralized & organized ✅ Fully searchable talent pool No more “I know I talked to them once…” moments. 💭 Curious, how are you keeping track of your talent network today?

Word on the street is that LinkedIn is actively suing a newish, but well-known, TA AI sourcing tool that scrapes LI data. Care to confirm or deny Sarah Wight? If my sources are right, this is a massive line in the sand and completely redraws the AI sourcing landscape. Historically, LinkedIn only really paid attention to you once you achieved true PMF and some elements of critical mass. If LI is putting the kabash on early stage startups in the space this quickly - they mean business.

About 18 months ago my friend, advisor, investor, and early Syelo OG Srini Dandu introduced me to a guy building a wild product. The entrepreneur was a former recruiter (one of Ubers first global talent hire), and had this crazy concept of creating an ATS nobody seen before. The product was in production (not launched yet) but at high level he was merging multiple recruiting products/companies into one solidified platform, he coined the term "all-in-one ATS". To be honest, I was extremely skeptical and doubted the functionality/intelligence of the tool but told the founder to reach out when his product was done. 6 months ago the same founder reached out and demo'd me his product. Jaw on the floor, "holy shit" moment. His team had built the first AI native ATS which powered best in class products and features that no other existing competitor in the space could compete with. The legacy platforms were good-great but after the emergence of Open AI it was clear they were dinosaur technology. Kula had built something beautiful - a rare compliment in the B2B SaaS, recruiting tech ecosystem. At this moment I knew Syelo Ventures had to partner with Achuthanand Ravi, Arjun Ohri and Charlie Liang in whatever capacity capacity possible. So we put Kula in front of the Syelo community - same reaction, same excitement. So we voted on whether to invest and the results were overwhelming. Today I am extremely excited to announce our investment in Kula. Kula is the best recruiting tool we've ever seen in Syelo and the ability to partner and scale their vision of the future is an absolute honor. If you're a recruiting leader or run/manage recruiting ops I encourage you to take a demo of their product - I promise you won't be disappointed. https://www.kula.ai/

Last week, we celebrated the launch of TalentDex V1, a tool built from the ground up by our community of recruiters. While AI is changing many parts of recruiting, relationships remain the core value recruiters bring to the table. TalentDex is designed to support that, helping recruiters stay organized, connected, and able to tap into the networks they’ve worked hard to build. ✔️ Your own forever ATS ✔️ A Chrome extension for easy candidate adds ✔️ Private pods to share and receive referrals with people you trust We’re not here to reinvent recruiting, just to make it easier to preserve the relationships that matter. TalentDex is free to try, no credit card or demo needed. We’re in V1 and actively gathering feedback for V2. 👉 Check it out: www.talentdex.ai Let us know what we should build next. #ATS #recruiting #AI