Metix AI raises $5.5M across two funding rounds.
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.
You define the role. We bring the people worth meeting.
Metix AI is an AI-native hiring platform. You define a role. The platform runs the search: sourcing across a global talent network, reaching out, screening, and scheduling. Mira screens for interest and books the interview, so what reaches you is a person ready to talk. Technology does the heavy lifting. People stand behind the result. You make every final call.
The pricing model changes with it. Metix AI is a subscription with monthly usage Credits and included AI Agents, not a placement fee or a slice of someone's first-year salary. Credits meter defined product actions rather than candidate delivery, while the AI Agents carry the workflow through sourcing, outreach, screening, and scheduling. That makes the software cost visible before you compare it with an agency fee or the internal hours required to operate a sourcing seat.
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 you on outreach approval and the interviews is how the product stays a hiring loop instead of a list.
The model works better than the software did.
From our early enterprise customers:
- Roles filled in about a week, against an industry average of 45 days, roughly 84% faster.
- 95% of roles get a first interview scheduled within 24 hours.
- Five times the response rate on outreach.
- About 65% lower hiring cost, paying for itself in around three months.
Close to a hundred companies now hire through Metix AI, 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 searches more than 860 million profiles in over 190 countries; the Mira system report describes how the search agents work. Through our partnership with Deel, a hire made on Metix AI can connect to compliant employment and payroll in 130-plus countries.
Backed by the team behind Bossjob.
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.
Where the money goes.
Three places. Deepening the platform so it handles more of the search with less prompting. Growing the team around customers in North America. 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 AI.
About Metix AI. Metix AI is an AI-native hiring platform based in San Francisco. It combines automation with expert delivery to provide interview-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.