Gem for Startups

Hire talent faster with an all-in-one recruiting solution that your team will love

Hiring is your number one priority. That’s why we’re offering Gem for free to early-stage startups. Get sourcing, CRM, and an ATS on one easy-to-use platform. See why our customers rate us 4.8/5 on G2 and why 92% of users find Gem easy to use.

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Free for Startups

Early-stage startups, jump right into Gem if you are:

  • New to Gem

  • Under 15 employees

  • Incorporated less than 3 years ago

  • Raised less than $7MM (USD) in funding

  • Not a staffing/recruiting firm

Startups that trusted Gem to fuel their growth

Manage all your recruiting on one platform

Gem offers sourcing, CRM, ATS, and analytics in one solution so you can focus on hiring the best talent without context-switching between systems.

All in One

Source passive talent 5x faster

Instantly add candidates from LinkedIn, Indeed, and over 20 other sites with just a single click.

Sourcing Extension

2x response rates with personalized outreach

Automate and personalize your message across multiple communication channels with AI-assisted personalization.

Sequences

Proactively build pipelines for future roles

Easily add candidates to your CRM and let Gem automatically refresh their data so you have the latest context when it’s time to recruit.

CRM Database

Get insight on recruiting with easy-to-use analytics

Start with our preset templates or easily create your own dashboard reports to monitor recruiting activity and identify areas for improvement.

Easy to use dashboards

Resources built for startups

Startups Hiring 101: A Founder's Guide
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How to hire for startups

Startup hiring is hard and it's difficult to know where to start. Gem has collaborated with top talent partners and founders to open source a "How to Hire for Startups" guide filled with resources including: playbooks, step-by-step instructions, and templates.

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See Gem in action

Watch a 3-minute demo video from our Head of Partnerships on how startups leverage Gem.

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Talent Talk: Startup hiring 101

Gem & Unshackled VC discuss best practices (and what to avoid) of hiring as an early stage founder.

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Startup hiring guide

A hiring playbook for startups with step-by-step instructions, best practices and templates.

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Hiring at scale

Not a startup? Check out our resources for hiring at scale.

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“One of the hardest parts of recruiting your early team is knowing where to begin. Gem's open source resources for startup hiring are a big help for founders who want to build the right foundation and get off to a strong start. We recommend them day 1 to every new founder in the Accel portfolio.”

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Talent Partner at Accel

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Enable your companies to hire like the best, for free.

Free for Startups

Early-stage startups, jump right into Gem if you are:

  • New to Gem

  • Under 15 employees

  • Incorporated less than 3 years ago

  • Raised less than $7MM (USD) in funding

  • Not a staffing/recruiting firm

Terms & Conditions: Offer valid for new Gem customers only. Eligible companies must be incorporated within the past three (3) years, and have received no greater than five million ($5MM) (USD) in venture funding. Not valid for staffing and/or recruiting firms. Companies that exhibit excessive usage may be subject to usage limits, but we will make a commercially reasonable effort to resolve any such issues. Gem reserves the right to modify or adjust this program at any time.