Recboo Tops Last Fiscal Year's New Client Count In Half A Year
A recruiting outsourcer aimed at startups doubling its client intake in half a year is a demand signal from venture-backed companies that are hiring senior and specialist roles rather than pausing.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Knocklearn Inc., the Tokyo company behind the startup recruitment service Recboo, says new client companies for fiscal 2026 passed the full-year total for fiscal 2025 in about six months. Recboo handles recruitment strategy, sourcing, scouting, and selection operations for startups hiring CxO-level and specialist staff. The company cites backcasting-style hiring plans, internal recruitment systems, and direct sourcing of candidates who do not appear on job boards.
Recboo sells recruitment as an outsourced function for companies that have no dedicated HR staff. The service designs hiring plans around funding rounds, runs sourcing and selection, and then hands the process back so the client can run recruitment internally, which the company says can happen in as little as three months.
Knocklearn attributes the client growth to demand for named searches: CxOs, AI engineers, and researchers who never post on job boards. It also cites partnerships with more than 70 venture capital and corporate venture capital firms as a source of recruitment knowledge across startup stages.
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- ASCII.jp 「Recboo」半年で前年度の年間新規導入社数を突破