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About Gild

HR and recruiting have been begging for innovation. That’s why Gild is here. Gild provides tech recruiting solutions that harness the power of data to liberate hiring teams from the challenges of finding developers. Using patent-pending technology, Gild evaluates the work of millions of developers so companies using Gild’s talent acquisition tools know who’s good and can target the right candidates. Launched in 2011, Gild is backed by Globespan Capital Partners and Baseline Ventures, and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

How We Got Here

Gild’s co-founders, Sheeroy Desai and Luca Bonmassar, came together with one common belief: that tech hiring should be more merit-based.

“With Gild Source, employers from every sector – and every part of the country—now have a way to find skilled developers that they might otherwise have missed.”

—Mark Kvamme, Special limited partner at Sequoia Capital

Sheeroy and Luca started Gild because they both experienced tremendous challenges hiring the talent they needed.  At his previous company, Sheeroy had the Recruiting department reporting to him and found hiring developers to be an extremely inefficient and expensive process. In fact, Sheeroy faced the prospect of missing business goals because it was so hard to find the tech talent he needed. Luca experienced the recruiting problem from a hiring manager’s perspective. When he led a team of developers at his last company, he was constantly brought in to meet candidates that turned out to be unqualified. As a result, Luca built his own code evaluation technology to help identify skilled developers up-front, and teamed up with Sheeroy to found Gild.

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