Refer raises $7.5 million for candidate-paid AI recruiting
Founder Andre Hamra built Refer after putting up flyers at Stanford to help people find jobs; hires pay 20% of their first month's salary.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Business Insider
Why it matters
Refer is betting that job seekers will pay for trusted access to hiring managers as AI makes applications cheaper, noisier and easier to ignore.
Andre Hamra has raised a previously unannounced $7.5 million seed round for Refer, the AI career-agent business he started after putting up flyers at Stanford offering to help people find jobs, Business Insider reported on July 15th.…