HeyMilo is a San Francisco-based AI recruiting company founded in 2023 by Sabashan Ragavan and Ramie Raufdeen, both with engineering backgrounds at companies like Instagram, Microsoft, and Salesforce. The platform uses conversational voice AI agents to automate the initial interview and screening stage of hiring, a bottleneck that is especially painful for organizations doing high-volume recruitment across roles like retail, hospitality, customer service, and operations.
HeyMilo's AI agents conduct tailored, two-way interviews across multiple channels, including voice, video, phone, and SMS, so candidates can engage in whatever format suits them. Crucially, the agents don't just read a script: they ask intelligent, context-aware follow-up questions and probe answers the way a skilled human screener would, then deliver structured, actionable evaluations that help hiring teams quickly identify the strongest candidates. This lets companies screen far more applicants without proportionally growing their recruiting headcount.
A key efficiency feature is HeyMilo's AI Agent Builder, which reads job descriptions directly from a company's applicant tracking system and automatically generates comprehensive, role-specific interviews. Teams can further configure the screening and vetting criteria to match their requirements, and results flow back for review. By front-loading rigorous, consistent screening, HeyMilo aims to reduce time-to-hire, improve candidate quality, and lower cost-per-hire.
HeyMilo raised $2.2M in seed funding in March 2025, led by Canaan Partners with participation from Alumni Ventures and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator. The funding supports expansion of its AI agent capabilities as autonomous screening becomes a standard part of the modern recruiting stack.