Metaview Raises $60 Million to Put AI Agents to Work in Hiring

On Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, Metaview, a London-based startup that builds AI tools for recruiting, announced a $60 million Series C funding round led by Insight Partners. The company says it will use the money to roll out its autonomous recruiting agent, called fillmore, to all customers and to more than triple the size of its team.

What happened

According to Axios and FinSMEs, the round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from GV, Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Plural and Garuda Ventures. The new money brings Metaview's total funding to $110 million.

Metaview was co-founded by CEO Siadhal Magos and Shahriar Tajbakhsh. The company says its platform is used by more than 7,000 organizations. According to HR Tech Feed, customers include Deel, Affirm, Navan, Replit and Airwallex.

The headline product is fillmore, which Metaview describes as an autonomous recruiting coworker. Instead of simply taking notes or summarizing interviews, the agent is designed to handle a chain of hiring tasks on its own, including:

• Reviewing incoming applications
• Sourcing candidates
• Running structured screening conversations
• Booking interviews and producing reports

With this round, fillmore is moving to general availability. Metaview also plans to grow from about 80 employees to 250 by the end of 2027, open an office in New York City and expand its "10x Recruiting" community and training program, according to FinSMEs.

Magos framed the raise around a simple idea. After engineering teams embraced AI agents, he said, "recruiting is next." He added that the goal is to rebuild hiring systems "to make it radically more efficient and precise," according to HR Tech Feed.

Why it matters

Recruiting is a huge market that still runs on a lot of manual work. Recruiters read stacks of applications, chase calendars and repeat the same screening questions again and again. Metaview is betting that AI agents can take over much of that busywork.

The timing makes sense. HR Tech Feed reports that average inbound applications per recruiter have surged sharply, in part because job seekers now use AI to apply to more roles faster. When candidates automate their side, employers need tools that can keep up on the other side.

This funding round is also part of a bigger trend. Investors are moving past general-purpose chatbots and putting money into "vertical" AI agents that do one job very well for one type of customer. Recruiting, legal, accounting, customer support and real estate are all seeing this kind of focused product.

What this means for founders and builders

There is a lesson here for anyone with a software idea.

Pick one painful workflow and own it. Metaview did not try to build an everything app. It picked hiring, a process every company has and almost every company finds frustrating, and built deep tools for it. That focus is what lets a startup win against much larger players.

Agents are the new feature set. A few years ago, the product was a dashboard. Today, buyers expect software that actually does the work. If you are planning a product, ask what tasks your users repeat every week and whether an agent could handle them.

Distribution and trust take time. More than 7,000 customers did not appear overnight. The hard part of a software business is often not the code but getting a product in front of buyers and keeping them happy.

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The bottom line

Metaview's $60 million Series C is a strong signal that investors see AI agents moving from experiments into everyday business work, starting with jobs full of repetitive steps like hiring. The company now has the funding to launch fillmore widely and to grow its team fast. For builders, the takeaway is clear: find a narrow, painful workflow, let AI do the heavy lifting, and focus on earning the trust of real customers.

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