Grayscale is Recognized as a Fall 2022 Category Leader by SourceForge
Grayscale is proud to announce we have been recognized as a Fall 2022 category leader by SourceForge. SourceForge is the world’s largest software and services review and comparison website.
To win the Fall 2022 Leader award, each winner had to receive enough high-rated user reviews to place the winning product in the top 5% of favorably reviewed products on SourceForge, which demonstrates the utmost quality that Grayscale delivers to customers.
This award recognizes exceptional companies and products with a significant amount of recent favorable user reviews putting them in the top tenth percentile of highly reviewed products on SourceForge.
“Grayscale has been a game changer in getting offer letters across the finish line (by using nudges & automations). We went from having to hunt down 20-30 people each week to having one outstanding, unsigned offer letter after implementing Grayscale into the process!”
- Chobani
About SourceForge
SourceForge is the world’s largest software comparison directory, serving nearly 30 million users every month and featuring user reviews, product comparisons, software guides, and more. SourceForge's mission is to help businesses find the best software to fit their needs and budget. There are a variety of software tools available to businesses, and there are tools in almost every category and niche, each serving a slightly different purpose. SourceForge also powers the Slashdot.org/software/ business software and services directory.
Grayscale Raises $7.5M to Continue Transforming High-Volume Hiring
When Hubert and I founded Grayscale, we did so with the goal of helping make the hiring process more human for candidates and recruiters. Early on, we found the real hero in our story – the most underserved member of a talent acquisition org – recruiters focused on high-volume and hourly hiring.
Over the past 4 years, we've been focused deeply on serving high-volume hiring teams, supporting them with simple, effective tools that make their lives easier and help them provide a best-in-class candidate experience. Our SMS-first hiring platform accelerates and automates hiring and onboarding. This helps teams speed up hiring outcomes, by reducing candidate ghosting, and create more human experiences for hourly, enterprise hiring.
Today, Grayscale serves nearly 400 amazing brands like Hershey's, Chobani, DICK'S Sporting Goods, Wayfair, Amazon, DoorDash, GardaWorld, and Samsung, and we're just getting started.
We're Doubling Down on Our Mission
Over the past 12 months, we've more than doubled our customer base, grown revenues by 2.5x, and doubled our team size. I believe this is a testament to our team's hard work and focus, and I'm grateful to work alongside such amazing people in support of our wonderful customers.
To better serve our customers, we recently closed our $7.5M Series A, led by Atlanta Ventures and with support from Overline and Jon Hallett. We're thrilled to announce that Rob Forman, co-founder, and president of SalesLoft, has joined our board. I couldn't be happier with the investors we have around our table as we enter the next phase of our business.
We will use this capital to accelerate the value we're delivering to our customers by investing in our product and building out our team. We'll be hiring in all areas of our business, including enterprise sales, product, engineering, and customer success. HERE is a full list of our openings.
A heartfelt ‘thank you’ from Hubert and me to all of our wonderful customers, teammates, and investors who have supported us along the way. We wouldn’t be here without you.
Here's to the next chapter at Grayscale! 🎉
- Ty Abernethy, Cofounder & CEO
PS: Did I mention we’re hiring? 😊 Check out our open roles HERE.
Grayscale Wins the Summer 2022 Top Performer Award from SourceForge
Grayscale is proud to announce we have been awarded the Summer 2022 Top Performer Award by SourceForge. SourceForge is the world’s largest software and services review and comparison website.
This award recognizes exceptional companies and products with a significant amount of recent favorable user reviews putting them in the top tenth percentile of highly reviewed products on SourceForge.
“Love Grayscale for our production side of our recruiting needs. My team and I have found that production candidates typically answer the most when we use grayscale since most are not looking at their emails during the work day and instead on their phones. We have found more success in finding quality candidates this way.”
- Patrick M., Recruiter
About SourceForge
SourceForge is the world’s largest software comparison directory, serving nearly 30 million users every month and featuring user reviews, product comparisons, software guides, and more. SourceForge's mission is to help businesses find the best software to fit their needs and budget. There are a variety of software tools available to businesses, and there are tools in almost every category and niche, each serving a slightly different purpose. SourceForge also powers the Slashdot.org/software/ business software and services directory.
Leverage Texting in Taleo with Grayscale
We’re so excited to announce our upgraded Taleo texting integration is live!
You can now use Grayscale right inside of Taleo Business Edition & Taleo Enterprise to make communicating with candidates easier than ever.
Leverage Grayscale’s Entire Suite of Tools, Directly within Taleo
Grayscale is a feature-rich applicant engagement tool designed for recruiters on Taleo. Text, send bulk messages, and survey your candidates all within Taleo.
You Can Message Candidates Directly within Taleo
Engage candidates where they are - on their phones. There's no better channel to engage candidates and drive the process forward for high volume hiring. 🏄♀️
Get to the Human Steps Faster
Start taking meaningful steps with your candidates faster, without replacing the human elements. 💐
Keep Your Finger on the Pulse with Advanced NPS Surveys
NPS surveys are built into Grayscale to help you understand your candidates and uncover insights to grow your talent pool. 💫
Track the Metrics That Matter to Your Team
Keep an eye on metrics like cold response rates, cold response times, messages sent, and conversations had. 💪
Ready to give it a try?
Activate Your Taleo Integration Today 🤗
Book a demo with us, and help your team transform their volume hiring process with Grayscale.
Grayscale Supercharges Texting in SAP SuccessFactors
We’re so excited to announce our upgraded SAP SuccessFactors texting integration is live, and we’ve now officially launched in the SAP Store!
You can now use Grayscale right inside your ATS to make communicating with candidates easier than ever.
Leverage Grayscale’s Entire Suite of Tools, Directly within SAP SuccessFactors
Grayscale is a feature-rich candidate engagement tool designed for recruiters on SAP SuccessFactors. Text, send bulk messages, automate communication, and survey your candidates all within SAP SuccessFactors.
You Can Message Candidates Directly within SAP SuccesFactors
Engage candidates where they are - on their phones. There's no better channel to engage candidates and drive the process forward for high volume hiring. 🏄♀️
Automate the Busy Work, and Get to the Human Steps Faster
Leverage automations to start taking meaningful steps with your candidates faster, without replacing the human elements. 💐
Keep Your Finger on the Pulse with Advanced NPS Surveys
NPS surveys are built into Grayscale to help you understand your candidates and uncover insights to grow your talent pool. 💫
Track the Metrics That Matter to Your Team
Keep an eye on metrics like cold response rates, cold response times, messages sent, and conversations had. 💪
Ready to give it a try?
Activate Your SAP SuccessFactors Integration Today 🤗
Visit us in the SAP Store, or book a demo with us directly, and help your team transform their volume hiring process with Grayscale.
Grayscale Named an Emerging Favorite on The 2022 Capterra Recruiting Shortlist
Grayscale is proud to announce its recognition in the flagship reports of Gartner Digital Markets (Capterra and Software Advice) for the Recruiting Software category. These reports are independent assessments that evaluate a number of parameters to generate a list of market leaders in the software space that offer the most popular solutions.
Have a look:
2022 Capterra Recruiting Shortlist
2022 Software Advice Recruiting Frontrunners
"It's a night and day difference from before - Grayscale is helping us have more quality conversations with candidates."
- Breanne Ness, Transwest
Grayscale is rated 4.8 (out of 5) on all Gartner Digital Market brands. We would like to sincerely thank all our users for the support we've been given along the way, and the positive feedback we've received.
Want to review Grayscale? Click here.
Grayscale Raises $3.25m to Help Make High Volume Hiring More Human
We’re thrilled to announce that Grayscale has raised a $3.25M Seed round. This is a big milestone for the company -- and we can’t wait to put the funds to good use in supporting our amazing customers.
Over the past year, Grayscale has grown by 425%, helping hundreds of growing businesses like Amazon, Wayfair, Peloton and DoorDash streamline their high volume hiring – creating greater transparency in the hiring process and delivering a best-in-class candidate experience. Our customers have created a more human-centric hiring process for nearly 2M candidates to date – and we’re just getting started.
This round was led by Atlanta Ventures, and we couldn’t be more excited about this partnership. David Cummings, Jon Birdsong, and the team have helped support Grayscale from the beginning, from offering me an extra desk when I was starting out, to introducing me to my co-founder, Hubert Liu, who was previously on staff with Atlanta Ventures. Trust is built over time, and we couldn't have found better value-aligned partners to support us on this journey.
Additionally, we’re thrilled to announce investment from Rob Forman and Kyle Porter (SalesLoft Co-Founders), and Edwin Marcial (Former CTO at Intercontinental Exchange).
We plan on utilizing this capital in the following ways:
- Continue to build out our amazing team (We’re hiring in Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success!)
- Accelerate our pace of shipping new functionality to better support high-volume recruiting for global talent acquisition teams
- Deploy new integrations with leading applicant tracking systems to support our growing customer base
Grayscale’s mission is to help make the hiring process more human. Interested in joining us on the journey? Check out our career site for a full list of open positions.
Onward and upward,
Ty Abernethy
CEO & Co-Founder
Grayscale
Grayscale Powers Texting for Greenhouse
We were recently hiring for an Account Executive. I emailed a promising candidate that had applied, but she never responded.
I was like 🤷
So I texted her. 10 minutes later we had a time set up to connect. She had missed my email in her "crazy inbox."
Which got me thinking - how much time are we wasting as recruiters, sending out email after email and waiting to hear back?
Hiring is all about speed, right?
Candidates open 99% of text messages and respond within an hour (versus 18% for emails, and nearly a 24 hr response time).
It's time we start texting with candidates - but in a way that's seamlessly integrated the ATS and trackable for organization and compliance.
That's why we're excited to announce our partnership with Greenhouse, so you can leverage the power of texting, baked directly into Greenhouse.
Grayscale Bakes Texting Directly into Greenhouse
We designed our texting platform with Greenhouse in mind, so you can:
- Text with candidates anywhere inside Greenhouse
- Automatically update candidate’s Activity Feed with messages sent/received
- Send both 1:1 and bulk texts to candidates
- Text on-the-go with our handy mobile app
And if you’re looking to supercharge your texting capabilities, ask us about how we can help automate candidate screening and make scheduling easier than ever!
Let's Check Out the Integration in Action 🏃
Grayscale integrates our texting capabilities with Greenhouse in a few key ways.
First, we have a Chrome extension that allows you to text candidates and see the full conversation history directly from within the candidate profile.
If you navigate to another profile, you'll immediately see that specific candidate's texting history.
And if your colleague has been texting with the candidate? You'll see that too, all in one consolidated view.
Now if you're like me, the Activity Feed in Greenhouse is your record of truth for all candidate communication.
With this integration, you'll see the full texting conversation organized within a single note inside the Activity Feed. This ensures you can quickly see the last communication so you never miss a beat. 💪
Activate Your Greenhouse Integration Today 🤗
The integration takes about 5-minutes to set up, so you can start texting candidates in no time.
To get started, simply visit our Greenhouse Marketplace page and click 'FAQs' for step-by-step instructions.