A sharper name for the bet we started with, and the funding to build it out. Define the role, and qualified candidates show up.
OpenJobs AI is now Metix AI. Over the past six months we closed $5.5 million across two oversubscribed rounds, the most recent a $3 million round that closed this week and was led by Rsquared Investment, the Singapore firm behind the recruiting platform Bossjob. This post is about what the new name means and where the money is going.
Start with the name, because it carries the point. Metix comes from Metis, the Greek word for practical intelligence: knowing a thing and getting it done are not the same skill, and the second one is what's scarce. That gap is the whole business. Companies do not have a knowledge problem in hiring. They know the role they need to fill. What they lack is a dependable way to get from an open req to a qualified person sitting across the table.
We learned that the slow way. When we started as OpenJobs AI, we built recruiting software: better search, faster sourcing, cleaner data. It worked, and it still left every customer holding the same job. The tool made the search faster, but the search was still theirs to run. A recruiter with a sharper tool is still a recruiter doing the sourcing. We had sped up the treadmill without letting anyone off it.
Companies never wanted the tool. They wanted the hire. That sentence looks obvious written down, and it took us a while to feel the full weight of it. So we rebuilt the company around it.
Metix is an AI-native hiring platform with a delivery team behind it. You define a role. The platform runs the search: sourcing across a global talent network, reaching out, screening, and scheduling. Then our delivery team reviews the shortlist before it reaches you, so the people you meet are the ones actually worth meeting. Technology does the heavy lifting. People stand behind the result. You make every final call.
The unit you pay for changes with it. Not seats, not recruiter hours, not a slice of someone's first-year salary. You pay for qualified interviews, and only for candidates interested and qualified enough to sit down with you. Set against a typical agency fee of 20 to 30 percent, that is a fraction of the cost, and you can see exactly what you are paying for.
Why keep people inside an "AI" company? Because hiring runs on judgment, and judgment is where automation on its own still misses. The platform can find and reach a thousand candidates. Deciding which four a founder should actually spend an hour with is a different kind of work. Keeping a delivery team in the loop is not a hedge against the technology. It is how we put our name behind the outcome instead of shipping a list and wishing you luck.
From our early enterprise customers:
Close to a hundred companies now hire through Metix, among them a global social commerce brand, a generative AI infrastructure company, and a top robotics firm. Revenue has grown more than 35% month over month. The platform sources across more than 860 million profiles in over 190 countries, and through our partnership with Deel, a hire made on Metix connects straight to compliant employment and payroll in 130-plus countries.
The new $3 million round was led by Rsquared Investment, the Singapore firm behind Bossjob, one of Southeast Asia's largest recruiting platforms. Our earlier $2.5 million seed was led by LongRiver Investments, with Fengshion Capital and a group of senior technology executives joining.
Recruiting is moving from selling software and hours to delivering outcomes. Metix pairs the scale of a platform with the judgment of experts, and what it hands over is a candidate ready to interview. That is the model we wanted to back. Rsquared Investment
The team is built for both halves of that. Kin Fu, our founder and CEO, has spent more than two decades in talent acquisition. Our CTO, Dr. Zhilin Wang, is a PhD computer scientist and AI-agent researcher who built the platform from the ground up. Gene Dai, our chief product officer, has spent his career building recruiting platforms.
Three places. Deepening the platform so it handles more of the search with less prompting. Growing the delivery team that stands behind every shortlist. And expanding in North America, where most of our new customers already are.
If you have a role open right now, that is the whole pitch. Define it, and we will bring you people worth meeting. That was the idea when we were OpenJobs AI. It is a lot closer to real as Metix.
About Metix AI. Metix AI is an AI-native hiring platform based in San Francisco. It combines automation with expert delivery to provide hire-ready candidates faster and more predictably than traditional recruiting. Learn more at metix.ai.
A note on the name. Metix AI is a brand of OpenJobs AI Inc. The company's legal structure has not changed; the name and the website, now at metix.ai, have. Our lead investor is Rsquared Investment Pte. Ltd. of Singapore, the company behind Bossjob. It is not affiliated with the similarly named U.S. firms Rsquared VC or R-Squared Ventures.