The fastball, the curveball, the changeup are all excellent pitches. But the best pitch is the one that wins.
At the UNLEASH America Conference and Expo in Las Vegas this week, the best pitch in HR Tech belonged to talent acquisition start-up HireBrain.
The hiring enablement platform competed in Las Vegas Wednesday in a start-up competition at the HR technology show. The start-up, founded in late 2019, beat out four competitors in a fast, but high-stakes, pitch competition. Jeet Mukerji, CEO and cofounder of Kinfolk, Jess Woodward-Jones, cofounder of Vizzy, Darryl Jackson, cofounder of Handover.ai, and Stu Veath, SVP of strategic business development with Trua, also competed.
HireBrain works alongside an organization’s ATS platform to engage all stakeholders in the hiring process for a more efficient hire.
“We provide an experience layer that sits on top of systems of record. This helps recruiting teams engage and collaborate with their audience, the business, by providing a suite of solutions for them to use before, during, and after a hiring cycle to ensure the highest probability of success,” said HireBrain founder and CEO David Nason in his pitch. “HireBrain provides managers learning in the flow of work and visibility and guidance throughout every stage of the process.”
The platform offers training and guidance for hiring managers and tools along the hiring process: from role-design to socially optimized job descriptions, and from interview guides to AI-powered candidate evaluation suites.
HireBrain boasts reducing “regrettable hires by over 60%,” according to Nason, who noted that the company is targeting enterprise-sized customers hiring at least 500–1000 people.
The pitch earned Nason a $50,000 sponsorship grand prize presented by UNLEASH founder and CEO Marc Coleman at the end of the competition. Trua, a verified digital identity solution, was named runner-up at the show.
It’s not Nason’s first winning pitch either, his start-up cleaned up last fall at the HR Tech Conference’s Pitchfest, beating out 30 other global start-ups.
No word on how the knuckleball would have fared, but it is a personal favorite of mine.
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