Salesforce Inc. continued to add to its collection of artificial intelligence (AI) personnel and technology Monday. It said it picked up some employees from Moonhub, a Silicon Valley startup specializing in AI-driven talent acquisition solutions that shut down operations.
A spokesperson for Salesforce said some of Moonhub’s team would be joining Salesforce, but had not formally acquired the company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“Today, we are excited to announce the Moonhub team will be joining Salesforce,” Moonhub CEO Nancy Xu said in a statement Monday. “By joining Salesforce, we are accelerating our mission in this next chapter. Moonhub’s talented team will play a key role in advancing Salesforce’s AI strategy, including Agentforce. As a customer and investor, Salesforce has already played a role in Moonhub’s journey. From our earliest conversations it also clear that our companies share deep core values like customer trust, along with a resolute conviction in the role AI agents will play in unlocking an era of global innovation and opportunity. We are excited for the impact we will make together.”
The talent acquisition (of sorts) is noteworthy as Salesforce continues to gobble up AI properties to build what it calls a digital workforce of the future. The 3-year-old Moonhub, founded by Xu, a former engineer at Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., attracted several Fortune 500 companies among its hundreds of customers intrigued by Moonhub’s AI tools designed to streamline hiring. Moonhub’s technology, in essence, automates the identification and evaluation of potential candidates, reaches out to them, and then assists in hiring them. It also provides onboarding and payroll management tasks.
The company quickly raised $14.4 million from financial backers Khosla Ventures, AIX Ventures, Day One Ventures, and GV (formerly Google Ventures) in addition to Salesforce, according to Crunchbase.
Moonhub’s addition of talent is but the latest in a series of moves by Salesforce to round out its AI offerings. In recent weeks, the company agreed to acquire data-management specialist Informatica Inc. for $8 billion and it snapped up Convergence.ai, an automation startup.
