The AI-native career services platform is currently raising a $1 million pre-seed round with multiple established investors committed.
Date
02/02/2026
Author
Team Coeus
AI is transforming the job hunt, leaving millions of job seekers feeling invisible. Pursuit, an AI-native career services company, is helping professionals navigate these changes by applying AI to human career coaching and recruiting.
While companies use AI to filter through thousands of resumes in seconds, candidates are left guessing how to beat the algorithm. Pursuit bridges this gap by providing an AI-driven career services platform that combines high-touch human coaching with proprietary AI tools.
Their experienced team helps with personalized resume optimization, AI-simulated interview prep, and automated job matching. By combining job search and career coaching services, Pursuit seeks to ensure that applicants are supported throughout their entire career journey.
Pursuit is building the first vertical AI career services firm at a pivotal moment in the labor market. The current career services market (including both coaching and job searching) is valued at $26B, but as AI reshapes the process, this market is projected to balloon to $88B within the next decade. This growth is being fueled by an unprecedented crisis in the modern job hunt: there were 1.3 million layoffs in the US in 2025 (3) and 48% of the workforce is currently hunting for roles (4).
We are seeing a structural shift where traditional mass applying methods no longer work. Recruiters are overwhelmed by AI-generated spam, meaning the value of candidates who can use AI to stand out rather than blend in has never been higher.
Pursuit occupies a unique gap in the market by offering an integrated coaching-recruiting loop that uses AI in tandem with human expertise to help clients stand out among the sea of applicants.
(Sources: 1: Coachranks, 2: Verifiedmarketresearch, 3: Challenger, 4: Greenhouse Software)