Textio

Textio, formerly known as Kidgrid, is the inventor of augmented writing. The company engages in analyzing and optimizing job descriptions for businesses.

Textio applies text analytics and statistical techniques to analyze job posting text that is posted on its Website, as well as delivers insights and feedback on about how to optimize the job listing.

Textio was founded in 2014 by Kieran Snyder & Jensen Harris. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

 

Textio’s predictive engine is fueled by the data of half a billion documents from around the globe, connecting hiring language to real-world outcomes. Textio Flow is a new augmented writing technology that lets your team compose more powerful content in a fraction of the time. Imagine your company’s best writing at everyone’s fingertips, with the touch of a single button.

 

Textio Hire creates a continuous, data-fueled learning loop that makes every writer your strongest writer. The more people you have writing, the faster Textio learns. It starts with your central library, the shared repository for your hiring documents and all the key phrases and data embedded within them.

 

Textio is backed by Scale Venture Partners, Bloomberg Beta, Cowboy Ventures, Emergence Capital, and Upside Partnership. The company raised $12M in a new round on Mar 30, 2020. This brings Textio's total funding $41.5M to date.

 

Textio was named Washington’s Best Midsize Company to Work for by Seattle Business Magazine, one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in Data Science by Fast Company, a Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star, and was a finalist for the SxSW Innovator awards and the Webby awards in the machine learning category.

 

 

  • Year founded: 2014
  • Funding Info: $41.5M over 4 Rounds (Latest Funding Type: Venture- Series Unknown)
  • Yearly Revenue: $10M-$20M (2019)
  • Employee Size: 51-200
  • Business Valuation: NA
  • City/Town: Seattle
  • State: Washington
  • Country: United States
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