SAN DIEGO — HelloSky (formerly Skyminyr), the only talent intelligence platform purpose-built for the executive search industry, today announced the close of a $5.5 million oversubscribed seed round. The raise includes participation from Caldwell Partners, Karmel Capital, True Capital Partners, Hunt Scanlon Ventures and prominent angel investors from Google and Cisco Systems.
In addition, the company has surpassed $1 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and expanded its management team to add executives in sales and marketing. Hugh Burnham has joined the company as EVP, Sales and Marketing, and Mike Kelch has joined as Vice President of Sales. Burnham ran his own successful marketing and public relations agency serving B2B technology startups for the past 21 years prior to its acquisition in 2023 and Kelch brings extensive experience in go-to-market and customer growth strategies for AI-driven solutions from previous roles at Scandit, Leafly and GolfNow. The proceeds of the funding will be invested primarily into engineering and go-to-market efforts.
“As competition for executive talent escalates, organizations will increasingly turn to recruiting partners leveraging AI-driven platforms to gain a strategic edge,” said Scott A. Scanlon, CEO and co-founder of Hunt Scanlon Ventures. “They will lean on recruiters who can tap into precision talent platforms like HelloSky to integrate candidate identification, behavioral analytics, sector mapping, and human capital intelligence all in one place,” he said. “For executive recruiters this means shorter cycle times, more mandates, and unprecedented growth opportunities.”
Purpose-Built for Executive Search
While many AI recruiting platforms have added executive search features as an afterthought, HelloSky was engineered from the ground up with AI and data science tailored specifically for high-stakes executive placements. The platform delivers unmatched precision in identifying candidates with exact-fit experience and qualifications for leadership roles.
HelloSky has built a proprietary data science flywheel over five years, continuously training its talent intelligence models on behavioral signals, query patterns, and placement outcomes from over 700 expert executive search users. This reinforcement loop enables the system to optimize for precision discovery in the most complex executive searches, including those traditionally considered unsearchable.
Unlike platforms designed for staff-level recruiting, HelloSky offers advanced executive competency smart tags, relationship intelligence and connection pathing, revealing actionable routes to top talent based on deep employment, investment, and education graphs, not just superficial LinkedIn ties.
A Unified Talent and Intelligence Ecosystem
HelloSky consolidates human capital, company, talent, and investor data into a single AI-powered platform. With dynamic market mapping, real-time tracking, and its newly launched SmartRank™ technology. HelloSky is changing the game for how executive talent is sourced and evaluated, eliminating the need for multiple disparate costly subscriptions.
SmartRank™ transforms natural language job descriptions into structured qualification maps, then algorithmically identifies and ranks the most relevant candidates from HelloSky’s proprietary data platform—bringing unprecedented speed and precision to the talent discovery process, based on verified user reviews and market presence.
Other platform capabilities include Investor intelligence to reduce reliance on tools like Pitchbook, and smart tags that assess factors such as revenue scale, recruitability, and network scoring to identify optimal connection paths to candidates.
Integration with the Most Popular ATS and TRM Platforms
HelloSky is integrated with the most popular applicant tracking systems (ATS) and talent relationship management systems (TRM). In order to foster a seamless recruiting workflow, thereby allowing access to candidate information, improving collaboration and providing a unified dashboard of all applicant data without switching between platforms.
HelloSky integrates with Ashby, Clockwork, Ezekia, Gem, Greenhouse, Invenias, Loxo, Salesforce, and Thrive. The platform also integrates with all assessment data to provide a more nuanced view into candidate qualiifications.
Strong Early Adoption and Industry Recognition
Several of the fastest-growing executive search firms have already adopted HelloSky, including enterprise deployments at Bespoke Partners, Caldwell Partners, Eastward Partners, NU Advisory Partners, and On Partners. Venture capital and private equity firms are also turning to HelloSky to power talent decisions across their portfolios.
“This is a watershed moment for executive search,” said Alex Bates, CEO of HelloSky. “AI is no longer a futuristic concept—it’s a competitive advantage today. Firms that embrace our platform are the fastest growing firms in executive search, achieving better outcomes with higher candidate precision and placement success.”
HelloSky was recently named to the High Performer Quadrant in G2’s ranking of top Talent Intelligence Software.
HelloSky expects to reach profitability by Q4 2025.
About HelloSky
HelloSky is a next-generation precision talent intelligence platform purpose-built for executive search. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, data science, and proprietary talent graphs, HelloSky empowers organizations to connect with the right leaders faster and with greater precision than ever possible. For more information, please visit www.hellosky.ai
