WorkWhile
Recruiting & Staffing
$39.5Mtotal raised · 3 rounds on record
2open roles
$23Mlatest round · Series B · Jun 2025 · 16 mo ago
1backers · Rethink Impact
Overview
WorkWhile is an AI-powered hourly labor platform and workforce marketplace headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2019 by Jarah Euston and Amol Jain, the venture was incubated at Khosla Ventures and has raised nearly $40 million from top investors including Rethink Impact, Khosla Ventures, Reach Capital, and Citi.
How WorkWhile hires
Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
68 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
WorkWhile scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 68 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$39.5M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$23M
Series B · Jun 2025 · 16 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
7
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Rethink Impact
The money's age
Due for its next round
16 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
36/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 16, 2025
Raised a round Series B $23M
Apr 2025
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Feb 28, 2022
Raised a round Series A $13M · led by Reach Capital · Cheddar
Dec 18, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $3.5M · TechCrunch
Dec 8, 2019
Released an app WorkWhile · App Store
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.7 ★
19k ratings
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Jun 2025 | $23M | — | streetinsider.com |
| Series A | Feb 2022 | $13M | Reach Capital lead | Cheddar |
| Venture round | Dec 2020 | $3.5M | — | TechCrunch |
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$100k
Typical range
$100k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Middle
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $100k | $100k |
Highest paying role
Account Manager - Merchandising, Retail & Auto
$100k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
52/100
Stable
Open positions
7
2 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
71 days
faster than 17% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
33% ▲
Backend
17% ▲
Finance
17% ▼
Product
8% ▼
Analytics
8% ▲
Sales
8% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added Stripe to stack
Sep 2026
Added QuickBooks to stack
Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at WorkWhile over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
20
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
88/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
React Native
React.js
Databases
Google BigQuery
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
Cloud & platforms
Metabase
Figma
Looker
AI & ML
Claude
ChatGPT
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20 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
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Shared investors
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Same group
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News
WorkWhile CEO Bets AI Creates a Worker Shortage, Not a Job Shortage
WorkWhile CEO Simon Khalaf says AI investment will make workers harder to find. WorkWhile is using AI to match workers with jobs.
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WorkWhile Broadens Its AI-Native Platform into Full-Scale Staffing Solutions, Advancing Organizational and Workforce Stability
WorkWhile, the AI-native labor platform, announced the expansion of its platform from on-demand shift coverage to a full-scale staffing solution.
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WorkWhile Broadens Its AI-Native Platform into Full-Scale Staffing Solutions, Advancing Organizational and Workforce Stability
/PRNewswire/ -- WorkWhile, the AI-native labor platform, today announced the expansion of its platform from on-demand shift coverage to a full-scale staffing...
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WorkWhile CEO Wants Earning Power to Become Finance's Fourth Rail
WorkWhile CEO Simon Khalaf says financial services can see what workers have and what they owe, but often miss what they could earn tomorrow.
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WorkWhile Expands Free Virtual Healthcare To All Hourly Workers
WorkWhile, the leading AI-powered labor platform, today announced a major expansion of its healthcare benefits program. Effective immediately, WorkWhile is providing free, 24/7 virtual healthcare access to 100% of its worker community. The company tapped
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WorkWhile Adds AI Tool to Eliminate Payday Loans
WorkWhile has added an earning management solution designed for hourly workers to its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered labor platform.
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Flexible Staffing Platform WorkWhile Announces Board Appointment Built In San Francisco
James Everingham, the CEO of Guild AI, is the newest addition to WorkWhile's board of directors.
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WorkWhile Elevates COO Khalaf to CEO
Labor marketplace WorkWhile has named Simon Khalaf as its new CEO as it expands into
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
7 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 43% engineering 14% remote 50-200 est. staff $100k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Marketing, Analytics
New York
United States
Engineering / R&D
4 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 75% engineering 25% remote 10-50 est. staff $100k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Analytics, Marketing
Toronto
Canada
2 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend
Las Vegas
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Marketing
Earlier presence
Seattle, United States