Moonhub

Company overview

Moonhub is an AI recruiter / agentic sourcing platform founded in 2022 by ex-Meta engineer and Stanford PhD Nancy Xu, headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It combines proprietary AI agents that identify, score, and engage candidates across 1B+ profiles (LinkedIn, GitHub, Stack Overflow and proprietary data) with human 'talent partner' recruiters who vet candidates before presenting them to clients. The company raised roughly $14.4M from Khosla Ventures, GV, AIX Ventures, Day One Ventures and Salesforce. In June 2025 Salesforce acqui-hired part of the Moonhub team; per TechCrunch the standalone company is winding down (Salesforce itself disputes that this was a formal 'acquisition'), so the public product appears to be in a closing posture.

Regulatory exposure

Moonhub's product sits squarely in scope for high-risk AI hiring rules: as an agentic sourcing and screening tool it falls under the EU AI Act's high-risk employment use case, and its candidate scoring/screening behavior would be an automated employment decision tool under NYC Local Law 144 and similar Illinois/Colorado regimes. Public disclosure is thin: the data-security-and-privacy page commits to CCPA/GDPR alignment, a 'do not use list' opt-out, and a data-subject access process, but a dedicated AI policy is still marked 'Coming Soon' and the /ai-policy URL returns 404. No NYC LL 144 bias audit, no EU AI Act / FRIA deployer materials, no model cards, and no ISO 42001 / SOC 2 evidence are published. The standard terms push compliance with employment-discrimination laws onto the customer and disclaim all accuracy/fitness warranties.

Path to a higher score

The most consequential step would be publishing the promised AI policy with an explainability statement and model/system documentation, then commissioning and publicly posting an independent NYC LL 144 bias audit (auditor, date, downloadable summary). Adding EU AI Act deployer guidance / a FRIA template, a detailed data-governance disclosure (training-data sources, exclusion lists, protected-attribute handling) and recognized certifications (SOC 2, ISO 42001) would lift several categories. A public status/security-incident channel and a model-update changelog would address post-market monitoring. In practice, given the June 2025 Salesforce acqui-hire and apparent wind-down of the standalone product, it is unlikely Moonhub will invest further in this documentation as an independent vendor.