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Ezra Kagan

Founder and CEO, Hirize · 1 appearance on the record.

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founderexecutiveinvestor@EsranurKaygin ↗LinkedIn ↗hirize.ai ↗

Ezra Kagan (Esranur Kaygin) is the founder and CEO of Hirize, an AI-powered resume and document parsing API platform. Previously, she founded Recruit for U and served as managing partner at Sankonline.

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Opinion
Kagan: Market leader Sovren is horrible and fails at resume extraction
“Sovereign is horrible, and they are a market leader. And with horrible, I mean, they can't extract data, so they can't read non-Word or PDF resumes.”
Ezra Kagan Aug 8, 2023 ▶ 3:57 How Hirize Hit $14k MRR in 60 Days
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kagan: 30% of job candidates are rejected because parsers cannot read resumes
“So what happens is, is that 30% of candidates who apply for a job, they get rejected not based on their skills, Or their resume, but because the technology can't read their resume.”
Ezra Kagan Aug 8, 2023 ▶ 4:07 How Hirize Hit $14k MRR in 60 Days
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2026
Kagan: Hirize can raise $2M at a $20M valuation
“Yeah, yeah, I can.”
Ezra Kagan Aug 8, 2023 ▶ 9:55 How Hirize Hit $14k MRR in 60 Days
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kagan: 80% of outsourced HR APIs run on outdated technology
“So the systems that we're all using today, they're using, if they're using an outsourced API, which is 80%, they're using outdated technology to extract data from resumes and then match it.”
Ezra Kagan Aug 8, 2023 ▶ 3:27 How Hirize Hit $14k MRR in 60 Days
What-if
Kagan: Hirize would have higher MRR if pricing was pre-negotiated in beta
“I started negotiating after after I launched, which I think we would have more MRR if we did it, if we, you know, yeah, you can't do everything perfect.”
Ezra Kagan Aug 8, 2023 ▶ 11:02 How Hirize Hit $14k MRR in 60 Days
Insight
Kagan: Building a company around an API creates irreversible vendor lock-in
“So after three months and you build on an API and you built your own company, whole company around that API, you can't go back.”
Ezra Kagan Aug 8, 2023 ▶ 11:41 How Hirize Hit $14k MRR in 60 Days
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kagan: Hirize hits $14K MRR and 12 customers in two months
“We just started two months ago and we have 12 customers. We have now around 14 K revenue, MRR.”
Ezra Kagan Aug 8, 2023 ▶ 4:49 How Hirize Hit $14k MRR in 60 Days
Disclosure
Kagan: Hirize raised $1M on a $10M SAFE valuation cap
“No, our valuation was ten million dollars and we did like one million round on safe.”
Ezra Kagan Aug 8, 2023 ▶ 7:14 How Hirize Hit $14k MRR in 60 Days
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Kagan: Hirize has six to seven months of runway remaining
“So we have around like six, seven months to go.”
Ezra Kagan Aug 8, 2023 ▶ 8:49 How Hirize Hit $14k MRR in 60 Days
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kagan: Hirize generated 1,400 beta signups with 80 actual users
“We had 1400 beta signups. I think we had, like, 80 actual users.”
Ezra Kagan Aug 8, 2023 ▶ 12:28 How Hirize Hit $14k MRR in 60 Days

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How Hirize Hit $14k MRR in 60 Days Aug 8, 2023 8m
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