Founded in 2024 by London-based entrepreneurs Daniel Nitu and Omar Zafar, TalentLynk has secured £335,000 in pre-seed funding from established UK investor, Haatch.
Streamlining recruitment practices is a cause close to Zafar’s heart, who previously headed up his own recruitment company. With his team spending excessive time on manual administrative tasks and managing multiple communication channels he knows how easy it is for crucial information to slip through the gaps.
Explaining the need for TalentLynk, he says:
“Today’s recruiters are incredibly busy and have to constantly switch between their work and personal mobiles, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams, and other channels to communicate with candidates and clients. None of these conversations are being tracked in the CRM or brought together in one place. Recruiters are spending up to two hours a day on manual tasks like writing up call notes, gathering messages and updating CRMs.”
Inspired by these challenges, Zafar and Nitu landed on the solution – a cloud calling and AI communication platform that provides phone, WhatsApp, SMS and email services into a single inbox that syncs with CRMs. Thus, TalentLynk was born.
TalentLynk’s main features and benefits:
- A reliable VoIP system with 100% uptime for seamless cloud calling.
- Calls are transcribed into high-quality text, after which AI processes the transcripts to automate time-consuming administrative tasks, enhancing productivity, accuracy, and revenue.
- Machine learning saves consultants time while enabling them to understand the best next steps in any recruitment process.
- Current integration partners include: Bullhorn, Vincere, Loxo and JobAdder. Salesforce, Mercury, Firefish, RecruiterFlow and more will be added next year.
What’s next for TalentLynk?
With a growing user base across UK cities, including London, Birmingham, Bristol, Brighton, Manchester, and Edinburgh, TalentLynk has plans to enter international markets in 2025.
The company aims to leverage machine learning to empower consultants with actionable insights and predictive recommendations to support recruitment workflows.
The co-founders’ vision is to become the global ‘Customer Intelligence Platform’ for recruitment agencies.
As Nitu explains:
“With TalentLynk, we’re giving recruitment agencies a reliable VoIP system and the tools to focus on high-value work rather than being bogged down with admin. The investment from Haatch will allow us to accelerate our plans and make an even bigger impact in the world of recruitment.”
Speaking on their recent investment, Haatch concludes:
“Talentlynk has shown incredible potential in addressing an unmet, deep pain for recruitment agencies, validated by the tremendous value they’re generating for their early customers having already driven significant uplift in what consultants can bill per year! Omar and Daniel, the team behind Talentlynk, are proven executors and we’re excited to support them as they take this platform to the next level!”