Every once in a while, a startup doesn’t just raise a round, it raises the bar. That’s what just happened at Jobright, the Santa Clara-based AI native job platform that doesn’t just assist your job search, it becomes your job search. While the rest of the world is still playing musical chairs with job boards, Jobright just secured a $3.2M Seed VC-II round to turn the job hunt into a precision-tuned AI mission.
The round was led by Translink Capital, with a sharp assist from HR Tech Investments (the venture arm of Indeed, the folks with a front-row seat to the inefficiencies of modern recruiting). When the people who know the broken parts put their money on who’s fixing it, that’s not a coincidence. That’s conviction.
Eric Yuan Cheng didn’t stumble into this idea. He found it on a gap-year road trip in 2021, sitting across from talented, overlooked professionals in the flyover zones most recruiters ignore. Cheng, an early Box engineer who went on to build Fangcloud.com before flipping it to Qihoo 360, saw a pattern. And Ethan Yudian Zheng, Ph.D. from The University of Hong Kong, ex-Newsbreak AI lead, and former Twitter ads ranking whisperer, saw the architecture. What they’ve built is what the job market should have been years ago.
With over 520,000 users and a 60% daily engagement rate, Jobright isn’t waiting for the future, it’s scaling it. No paid ads, no big-budget blitz. Just organic traction that says, “we’re not a platform, we’re a movement.” Eight million active job listings, 400,000 fresh daily. A copilot named Orion that doesn’t just give advice, it studies your moves like Phil Ivey at the poker table and makes career bets with algorithmic precision. Their newest creation, Jobright Agent, goes full Tony Stark. It doesn’t wait for you to apply. It finds the job, personalizes your resume, and hits send while you sip coffee and prep for interviews it already lined up.
Want to know what moves the needle? Results. Internal surveys of 2,000+ users show 2x more interviews, 80% less time spent searching. Because applying to jobs shouldn’t feel like playing the lottery. It should feel like strategy. And this team has strategy wired into every query, every filter, every byte of resume polish.
The plan? Scale the infrastructure. Deepen the AI engine. Bring full-cycle application management under one roof. That $3.2M is getting piped straight into expansion, not excuses.
So yeah, it’s not just Jobright by name, it’s Jobright by algorithm, architecture, and ambition. Welcome to the era where your job agent works harder than you do.
