Findem to Acquire Glider AI

March 23, 2026 – Findem, an AI platform for talent, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Glider AI, a skills validation platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Together, the companies will deliver an AI-powered hiring solution that produces hire-ready candidates — candidates who are discovered, assessed, and verified before they reach hiring managers. “Companies do not buy recruiting technology because they want better workflows — they buy it because they need great hires,” said Hari Kolam, CEO of Findem. “Too often, hiring depends on stitching together disconnected tools and processes, and critical context gets lost along the way. Bringing Findem’s talent AI together with Glider’s validation capabilities creates a single solution that produces more confident hiring decisions. That’s the outcome AI should deliver.”

‍“Hiring breaks down when the signals used to evaluate candidates lack verifiable data,” said Satish Kumar, CEO of Glider AI. “We bring proof to hiring through job-ready skills and verified identity. With Findem’s talent AI, organizations move beyond traditional recruiting to trusted, skills-based outcomes.”

“AI is rewriting how hiring markets will operate,” said Josh Bersin, global industry analyst and CEO of The Josh Bersin Company. “For decades, recruiting relied on fragmented tools and layers of suppliers. Today AI-powered platforms can focus on results, not process. Companies like Findem are helping move the market in this direction.”

‍The acquisition combines Findem’s talent discovery with Glider’s skills validation, autonomous AI interviews, and identity verification to create an end-to-end AI platform for talent. The solution sources, assesses, and verifies candidates, delivering candidates with verified skills for hiring teams to review.

‍The acquisition also positions Findem to disrupt the $650 billion global staffing market, where enterprises often rely on multiple suppliers for staffing, direct sourcing, curation, and compliance to qualify workers before they reach employers. By consolidating functions traditionally handled by multiple vendors into a single AI platform, Findem can autonomously discover, assess, and verify candidates before presenting them to hiring teams. Connecting enterprises and staffing firms directly with talent reduces their supplier costs and enables organizations to redirect savings toward more competitive compensation, reshaping the economics of hiring with greater predictability.

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“Contingent hiring has historically relied on fragmented systems and manual processes,” said Doug Leeby, CEO of Beeline. “The industry is beginning to explore platforms that can more intelligently discover, evaluate, and verify candidates. Approaches that help organizations connect with qualified, hire-ready talent more efficiently represent an important step forward for enterprises and the global workforce.”

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Findem identifies talent using its proprietary Labeling Engine, which transforms billions of unstructured data points into verified hiring insights. Glider adds the validation layer through skills assessments, AI interviews, and identity verification, creating a single AI workflow that connects discovery, validation, and verification.

‍Findem is also introducing outcome-aligned pricing tied to hires, reflecting confidence in its ability to deliver hire-ready candidates.

‍The transaction is expected to close in the coming weeks, subject to customary closing conditions. Following the close, Glider AI will continue to operate under its existing brand as part of Findem’s expanded platform.

Getro Acquisition

In Decemeber, Findem acquired Getro, an operating system powering more than 800 venture capital, private equity, economic development, chamber of commerce, and professional networks worldwide. These communities represent 3.5 million open jobs and some of the highest-trust talent ecosystems in the market.‍

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The acquisition accelerates Findem’s launch of the industry’s first Intelligent Job Post — a breakthrough that transforms job postings from passive listings into autonomous AI agents that source, engage, qualify, and deliver hire-ready candidates who are fully vetted, assessed, and calibrated for the role. With this launch, Findem introduces a new category: autonomous hiring agents that eliminate post-and-pray recruiting and replace it with outcome-based hiring.‍

“By combining Getro’s relationship intelligence with Findem’s expert-labeled data and agentic infrastructure, we’re moving the industry from passive applicant flow to proactive delivery of qualified talent,” said Mr. Kolam. “This shift unlocks higher conversion rates and faster hiring. That’s real ROI from AI.”

The integration of Getro’s networks with Findem’s agentic infrastructure activates high-trust communities as qualified talent pools. Findem’s agents understand the teams people have succeeded on, the leaders they’ve followed, and the communities that trust them. This relationship intelligence surfaces candidates far more likely to respond, convert, and thrive.

‍“Findem brings something rare to the talent space: AI that starts with verified data,” said Evan Walden, CEO of Getro. “By combining that foundation with our trusted networks, companies can now publish a job and let agents do the heavy lifting. It’s a massive leap forward in turning networks into outcomes.”

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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor  – Hunt Scanlon Media