Tofu: AI-powered Hiring at Scale

Finding the right candidate among thousands of resumes is like searching for a needle in a digital haystack. Remote work and outdated hiring tech have only made the process harder, yet talent teams are still expected to do more with less. That’s where Tofu comes in—revolutionizing how fast-growing companies screen, qualify, and hire top talent using AI.

We met founders Jason Zoltak and Jonathan Perez a year into their journey—after they had already bootstrapped their way to 100+ customers as a two-person team. Inspired by Jason’s experience at Shiftsmart, where he saw firsthand the inefficiencies in hiring, they left their jobs to build Tofu with a clear mission: eliminate the 25 million hours wasted annually on inefficient recruiting. Their resourcefulness and vision made it clear—they were founders we wanted to back.

Toronto-based Tofu has built an AI-first hiring platform that’s already helping 170+ companies streamline recruitment. At its core, Tofu solves the most time-consuming part of hiring: screening candidates at scale. Its AI can review 1,000 profiles in 60 seconds with 96% accuracy, cutting application review time by up to 83%.

But Tofu goes beyond just screening—it customizes AI resume review agents to match each company’s hiring needs. These agents learn from **ideal candidate profiles and past successful hires, ensuring that hiring decisions align with a company’s unique requirements and culture. The result? Higher-quality candidates and dramatically faster hiring.

Tofu transforms standard applicant tracking systems into live, searchable talent databases enriched with insights beyond the resume. It even validates applicants to prevent fraudulent submissions, ensuring recruiters engage only with genuine candidates.

The platform’s impact speaks for itself:
– Recruiters save at least 3 hours per week on screening.
– Companies using Tofu have cut staffing costs by over 70% by automating repetitive tasks.

This traction has attracted leading investors, securing a $1.2M pre-seed round from Night Capital, Garage Capital, Wayfinder Ventures, and Ritual Capital.

Tofu isn’t stopping at screening. Their upcoming AI Silver Medalist Resurfacing will help companies rediscover top candidates from past hiring cycles, while AI-powered outbound sourcing will proactively identify talent for open roles. And with a growing network of talent moving through customer funnels, Tofu is building a recruitment engine that connects top candidates across companies.

Hiring is no longer just about filling roles—it’s about finding the right people, faster and smarter. Tofu is leading this shift, combining cutting-edge AI with deep hiring insights to help companies build stronger teams with less effort.