About Us
A staffing company that became a technology company.
In 2016, Jan, Daniel, and Benjamin were running a staffing company in Vienna. They kept building internal tools to fix their own workflows. After a year and a half, the realization hit: the technology was more valuable than the placements.
Leadership
The founding team
Co-founder & CEO
Jan Jedlinski
LinkedInJan grew up inside the staffing industry. He started working short-term gigs in hospitality as a teenager, moved into staffing operations, and never left. That firsthand experience across every layer of the business is what drives how Candidately is built: for real workflows, not theoretical ones.
“We're not building for recruiters. We're building with them. The staffing industry doesn't need another tool. It needs infrastructure that finally matches how recruiters actually think.”
Co-founder & CPO
Benjamin Bartakovics
LinkedInBenjamin came up through Deloitte and Accenture before going full founder. He studied finance and business in London and Hong Kong, built his first app at the age of 17, and has spent the last decade turning that technical instinct into staffing products used by thousands of agencies.
“AI is the defining opportunity for staffing. Not to replace recruiters, but to unlock a level of performance the industry hasn't seen before.”
Co-founder & CDO
Daniel-Phillip Bartakovics
LinkedInDaniel brings 10+ years of design experience in staffing tech, trained across Vienna, St. Petersburg, and CalArts. His focus has always been the same: understand the recruiter's real workflow first, then build around it. At Candidately, that means every product decision starts with the people who use it.
“Most recruiting tools were designed to store data. We design for outcomes. Every screen, every interaction should get a recruiter closer to a placement, not closer to another click.”
Fully Remote
Built across four continents
The team is fully remote, spread across Vienna, Boston, Mumbai, and Buenos Aires. We gather once a year in a different location around the world for an all-hands meetup.
Jan Jedlinski
CEO, Co-founder
Benjamin Bartakovics
CPO, Co-founder
Daniel-Phillip Bartakovics
CDO, Co-founder
Kamil Dziemianowicz
CTO
Kamil Bielawski
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Rushill Shah
Full Stack Engineer
Rupesh Kumar
Business Development Manager
Learn Ndlovu
Full Stack Engineer
Gustavo Teran
Customer Success Manager
Our Story
From staffing agency to staffing technology
A decade of building inside the staffing industry. Every product decision comes from lived experience.
2016
Vienna
Three founders start a staffing company placing students into hospitality and promotion jobs. They keep building internal tools to fix their own workflows.
2017
Y Combinator S17
Accepted into Y Combinator. Moved to San Francisco. Launched Gustav, a sub-vendor marketplace for the staffing industry.
2018-21
Gustav grows
5,000+ staffing firms join the platform. Deep integrations with Bullhorn and JobDiva. Over $4M raised from Y Combinator, Speedinvest, Beenext, Bullhorn Ventures, and Jawed Karim.
2022
Exit
Gustav acquired by Fuse Cooperative after facilitating 500,000+ candidate shares between firms. The founding team starts building Candidately.
2023-now
Candidately
AI Resume Builder, Client Portal, Talent Marketplace, Candidate Search AI, and Candidate Portal. The full intelligence layer on top of your ATS.
Our Investors
Backed by the world's best
Backed by the world's best venture capital firms, business angels, and industry experts including Bullhorn Ventures, Y Combinator, Beenext, Speedinvest, Youtube co-founder Jawed Karim, Daniel Masata and many more that believe in and support our mission.
Y Combinator
S17 batch
Speedinvest
Early-stage lead
Beenext
Singapore-based VC
Bullhorn Ventures
Strategic investor
Jawed Karim
YouTube co-founder
Daniel Masata
European angel
...and many more that believe in and support our mission.
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Community
The World Staffing Summit
While building products, the team also built community. The World Staffing Summit has grown into the largest virtual gathering of staffing leaders in the world. Running annually since 2021, the Summit brings together thousands of agency owners, operators, and technology leaders for five days of sessions, panels, and networking.
The Summit also hosts the annual World Staffing Awards, recognizing the top staffing companies to work for and the top staffing leaders to watch. The event is free to attend, which reflects something about how the founding team thinks: build the community first, and the business follows.
“I'm always looking to push the envelope on recruitment tech and this summit really seems to be able to connect me with industry-leading individuals.”
- Gary Benedik, Arch Advisory Group
Our Belief
Staffing firms deserve better tools
The staffing industry generates hundreds of billions of dollars in annual revenue globally. But much of its core infrastructure still runs on email, spreadsheets, and outdated workflows. Candidately exists because we believe staffing firms deserve the same caliber of digital tools that exist in e-commerce, fintech, and SaaS.
Not a replacement for the recruiter. An augmentation. The AI surfaces the candidates. The recruiter makes the call.