Boostie just automated disruption. Born in May 2023 out of Lafayette, CO, this team didn’t crawl out of a WeWork with a dream, they came back with unfinished business. Founders Travis Arnold, Kevin Jones & Chris Dues already proved they could build the future once with Herefish, the staffing automation platform Bullhorn scooped up in 2020. Five years later, the band’s back together, this time with a sharper edge and a bigger mission: give recruiting teams the power to own their entire talent funnel, ads, data, conversions & all.
Boostie just closed a $500K seed round led by Bullhorn Ventures, with BridgeView’s Tim Glennie joining the table & CEO Travis Arnold personally doubling down. But this isn’t about raising money, it’s about raising efficiency. The staffing world’s been burning cash on job boards that charge like landlords & deliver junk leads. Boostie built a cleaner way. Their automated talent marketing platform plugs into a recruiter’s stack, targeting every stage before recruiting even begins. It’s not another dashboard, it’s an engine built to find, attract & qualify real humans, not bots with copy-paste résumés.
The proof’s in the data. 28.7% of applicants hitting Boostie systems are flagged as bots, spam, or flat-out ineligible before they touch the ATS. 36% of new candidates are rediscovered from old ATS data. Application completion rates? 91.52%, averaging just 63.7 seconds. That’s not magic, it’s math. With tools like Boostie Promote (AI-powered job ads built in 60 seconds), Capture (always-on candidate pipelines) & Apply (e-commerce-style application flow), recruiters finally get a system that works as fast as they think.
Under the hood, it’s .NET muscle & API agility, ATS-agnostic, real-time attribution, & analytics that track every click. Their Lever ATS integration shows how seamlessly it fits into modern tech stacks, no IT heavy lifting required. And they’re not flying solo: an all-star advisory crew featuring Rebecca Croucher (Atlas HXM), Jason Smith (Toro), JoJo Cosman (The Campbell’s Company), Aaron Kraljev (Providence) & investor-advisor Tim Glennie is helping Boostie scale smart.
The new funding fuels what’s next, expanding engineering, tightening AI workflows, scaling sales & proving what happens when experience meets momentum. Boostie isn’t chasing job board scraps; it’s reclaiming control for recruiters who want more signal, less noise. The same trio that reshaped staffing automation is now wiring up its marketing brain. And when Travis Arnold, Kevin Jones & Chris Dues start building, the market listens.
