Ishan Gupta

co-founder at @juicebox_work (hiring)

[Ishan Gupta @ishangpta]

@tr1ckastley Thank you for the kind words @tr1ckastley 🙏

[TBPN @tbpn]

It's Thiel Fellowship Day:

- @VictorWBoyd (Cavalla)
- @alexkshieh (Antifraud)
- @NDobroshinsky (EveryTicker)
- @ishangpta (Juicebox)
- @antoni_kiszka (Derpetual)
- @HighPriestOfSWO (Opt32)
- @G413N (SI)
- @needaubrey (Swoop)
- @samuelclcc (Praso)
- @clairebookworm (Researcher)

[Ishan Gupta @ishangpta]

@abhishekm1636 @G413N Thanks Abhishek!

[Ishan Gupta @ishangpta]

@VictorWBoyd congrats man :)

[Ishan Gupta @ishangpta]

Excited to join this group!

[Thiel Fellowship @thielfellowship]

Welcome 2026 Thiel Fellows!

WHO ARE THEY?

Victor Boyd: Birmingham, AL - @VictorWBoyd
Cavalla is on a mission to get anything anywhere in under 5 hours. Starting by building autonomous forklifts, through to developing hypersonic highways.

Samuel Carvalho: Recife, Brazil - @samuelclcc
Praso is building the new infrastructure for wholesale commerce — powering procurement, credit, and workflow tools for SMBs across underserved areas in Brazil.

Nick Dobroshinsky: Sammamish, WA - @NDobroshinsky
EveryTicker is democratizing institutional-grade financial research across the entire U.S. stock market, including the thousands of smaller companies Wall Street ignores.

Ishan Gupta: Kanpur, India - @ishangpta
Juicebox is building an AI recruiter that helps companies make better hiring decisions. Agents that understand real skills and move hiring from guesswork to true meritocracy.

Antoni Kiszka: Strzyżowice, Poland - @antoni_kiszka
Derpetual is building the infrastructure to create a market for any asset — with leverage.

Milan Lustig: Cold Spring Harbor, NY - @HighPriestOfSWO
Opt32 is building modern compute infrastructure to put AI onboard objects in the physical world — from robots to cars and drones.

Galen Mead: Chapel Hill, NC - @g413n
Standard Intelligence is building aligned general learners, pretraining large models to actively explore and learn from the Internet.

Aubrey Niederhoffer: New York, NY - @needaubrey
Swoop is building the super app for Africa, starting with food delivery in Nigeria and expanding into financial services across the continent.

Harry O'Connor: Cork, Ireland - @HarryOC493
Sentient Machines is a research lab building foundational models for robotics that generalize across tasks and environments.

Alex Shieh: Salem, NH - @alexkshieh
The Antifraud Company is a fraud bounty hunter defending American taxpayers with AI and investigative journalism.

Claire Wang: Los Angeles, CA - @clairebookworm
Claire is building biologically accurate simulations of entire nervous systems, starting with C. elegans. Developing a simulated brain that researchers can communicate with helps lay the foundation for brain-computer interface (BCI) technology.

Kyler Wang: Portland, OR - @kylerywang
Action is an artificial intelligence company in stealth.

[Ishan Gupta @ishangpta]

Today, 5,000 companies use Juicebox to power their hiring, from fast-growing startups to Fortune 100 enterprises.

We’re grateful to our customers, team, partners, and investors for helping us build the future of hiring.

A few special shoutouts to: @cognition, @tryramp, @Quora, @Samsara.

Excited to build the next era of recruiting together.

[Ishan Gupta @ishangpta]

Excited to announce that Juicebox has raised an $80M Series B at an $850M valuation, led by DST Global with participation from @sequoia, @coatue, and @ycombinator.

We’ve now raised $116M to build the future of hiring.

Read more below 🧵

[Ishan Gupta @ishangpta]

At Juicebox, we’re building the platform to help companies win the war for talent.

We do this with three core offerings:

(1) AI Candidate Search
(2) Outreach Sequences
(3) Autonomous Agents

Last year, we saw customers report up to a 90% reduction in time spent on identifying top candidates, allowing recruiting teams to focus less on searching and more on building relationships with talent.

[Ishan Gupta @ishangpta]

@brian_armstrong use @juicebox_work to semantically search profiles (and work proofs like open source contributions) instead of “lazy” sourcing with keywords and companies!

[Ara Kharazian @arakharazian]

Fastest growing companies on Ramp

trends to watch: (1) AI infrastructure means open source is likely ticking up, (2) AI dev tools (@Lovable) are not going away, (3) AEO is the future of marketing (@tryprofound)

[Ishan Gupta @ishangpta]

@HarshGawas25 @juicebox_work we don’t do AI interviews.

[Ishan Gupta @ishangpta]

We’re the first talent search platform built around how the top 1% recruiters hire.

This week, @juicebox_work got a major upgrade.

Juicebox now surfaces 120% more relevant candidates (across 800 million profiles) and assesses them 3x faster - compared to our previous search experience.

But this update isn’t just about speed.

It’s about fixing how talent search works 🧵

[Ishan Gupta @ishangpta]

@ilavanyajain @juicebox_work Yes! Majority of our hires are from Juicebox. Remaining few are from referrals / in-network.

[Ishan Gupta @ishangpta]

@vaibagra @juicebox_work Thank you!

[Ishan Gupta @ishangpta]

@iscuow @juicebox_work 🎉🎉🎉

[Ishan Gupta @ishangpta]

We’re excited for you to feel how much faster and more intuitive talent search can be in Juicebox.

Want help with hiring?

RT + comment a link to your most critical open role.

We’ll set up the exact search + criteria we’d use to find you top candidates for that role.

[Ishan Gupta @ishangpta]

We’ve evaluated our search on thousands of real world recruiting searches and job descriptions.

Juicebox also outperforms existing providers on @ExaAILabs's people search benchmark.