Cooper does what they promise – reliably, quickly, and without fuss. That's rare in recruiting tech, and we appreciate it.
Andreas Friedmann
Director Sales and Business Development — Breitseite GmbH
Cooper for startups and scaleups
Recruiting software for startups and scaleups.Hire for the next stage without building a giant team.
Early hiring is personal. Growth hiring is relentless. Cooper gives a lean recruiting team the capacity to read every application, run structured first conversations, and keep hiring quality high while the company changes around it.
Trusted by teams hiring through their next stage
From the first ten hires to a fast-growing talent function, Cooper helps ambitious teams make more informed decisions without adding more process.
THE STARTUP HIRING CHALLENGE
Growth hiring should add people, not add a second full-time job for the founders.
The hiring bar lives in someone's head
Founders and first recruiters know what good looks like, but a growing team cannot scale a process that only one person can explain.
Every new role creates another pile of work
The company may have a small number of open roles, but each one asks for sourcing, screening, scheduling, and feedback while the team is already shipping.
Speed can quietly lower the bar
When an important hire is urgent, the team shortens the screen, skips evidence, or relies on the loudest interview. Growth deserves a repeatable standard.
THE PLATFORM
A recruiting team that scales before the headcount does
Cooper gives startups and scaleups a shared hiring standard without turning every founder, manager, or recruiter into an operations specialist.
THE IMPACT
What changes when a lean team can see every candidate
1
Shared hiring standard across every role
100%
Of applicants considered before a shortlist
24/7
Candidate progress without founder scheduling
HOW IT WORKS
How a startup hiring brief becomes a confident decision
Keep the company-specific judgment, and make the repeatable parts visible to everyone involved.
- 1
Set the brief for this stage of the company
Define the skills, behaviours, and evidence that matter now — not an overbuilt list copied from a later-stage enterprise.
- 2
Scout reads every application against it
The first screen is consistent even when founders, investors, referrals, and job boards all send candidates into the same role.
- 3
Robin asks the questions your team agrees on
Candidates get the same first conversation, while hiring managers receive comparable evidence.
- 4
The team decides with the full context
A concise summary makes it easier to move quickly without confusing speed with a lower bar.
See how Cooper can support the recruiting workflow you run today.
Cooper vs hiring at startup speed with startup guesswork
Cooper
Ad hoc startup hiring
Hiring standard
Written, shared, and repeatable
Held by whoever is closest to the role
Applicant review
Every application gets a first read
Referrals and first impressions dominate
Founder time
Focused on the decision
Spent coordinating every screen
Interview signal
Comparable answers and evidence
Different questions in every conversation
Scaling the process
Add roles without rebuilding the funnel
Add people and reinvent the workflow
Quality at speed
Fast because the process is clear
Fast because steps are skipped
Cooper
Ad hoc startup hiring
Hiring standard
Written, shared, and repeatable
Held by whoever is closest to the role
Applicant review
Every application gets a first read
Referrals and first impressions dominate
Founder time
Focused on the decision
Spent coordinating every screen
Interview signal
Comparable answers and evidence
Different questions in every conversation
Scaling the process
Add roles without rebuilding the funnel
Add people and reinvent the workflow
Quality at speed
Fast because the process is clear
Fast because steps are skipped
Use cases
Built for the moments a startup starts to scale
Use one hiring standard across the roles that move the company forward, from first team to fast growth.
Startup and scaleup teams
A hiring process that grows with the company
Cooper was almost self-explanatory from day one — barely any onboarding needed. It's given us real time savings and a much clearer overview of our hiring process. For a mid-sized team like ours, it's a great solution.
Florian Richter
CEO — Boda Borg Germany
Cooper helped us quickly find qualified freelancers while making the entire hiring process simple and efficient.
Cora Lode
Owner — Cora Lode Interiors
Cooper has become an essential part of our hiring process. It's intuitive, saves us time, and helps us quickly find qualified candidates—with outstanding support whenever we need it.
Sibylle Schmidt
Owner — Steuerberatung Schmidt
Cooper does what they promise – reliably, quickly, and without fuss. That's rare in recruiting tech, and we appreciate it.
Andreas Friedmann
Director Sales and Business Development — Breitseite GmbH
Cooper was almost self-explanatory from day one — barely any onboarding needed. It's given us real time savings and a much clearer overview of our hiring process. For a mid-sized team like ours, it's a great solution.
Florian Richter
CEO — Boda Borg Germany
Cooper helped us quickly find qualified freelancers while making the entire hiring process simple and efficient.
Cora Lode
Owner — Cora Lode Interiors
Cooper has become an essential part of our hiring process. It's intuitive, saves us time, and helps us quickly find qualified candidates—with outstanding support whenever we need it.
Sibylle Schmidt
Owner — Steuerberatung Schmidt
Cooper does what they promise – reliably, quickly, and without fuss. That's rare in recruiting tech, and we appreciate it.
Andreas Friedmann
Director Sales and Business Development — Breitseite GmbH
Cooper was almost self-explanatory from day one — barely any onboarding needed. It's given us real time savings and a much clearer overview of our hiring process. For a mid-sized team like ours, it's a great solution.
Florian Richter
CEO — Boda Borg Germany
Cooper helped us quickly find qualified freelancers while making the entire hiring process simple and efficient.
Cora Lode
Owner — Cora Lode Interiors
Cooper has become an essential part of our hiring process. It's intuitive, saves us time, and helps us quickly find qualified candidates—with outstanding support whenever we need it.
Sibylle Schmidt
Owner — Steuerberatung Schmidt
Cooper does what they promise – reliably, quickly, and without fuss. That's rare in recruiting tech, and we appreciate it.
Andreas Friedmann
Director Sales and Business Development — Breitseite GmbH
Cooper was almost self-explanatory from day one — barely any onboarding needed. It's given us real time savings and a much clearer overview of our hiring process. For a mid-sized team like ours, it's a great solution.
Florian Richter
CEO — Boda Borg Germany
Cooper helped us quickly find qualified freelancers while making the entire hiring process simple and efficient.
Cora Lode
Owner — Cora Lode Interiors
Cooper has become an essential part of our hiring process. It's intuitive, saves us time, and helps us quickly find qualified candidates—with outstanding support whenever we need it.
Sibylle Schmidt
Owner — Steuerberatung Schmidt
Security & data protection
Candidate data protected as your team and footprint grow
Data stored in Europe
Your data lives on European servers and never leaves.
GDPR ready
Built to meet European data protection requirements from day one.
Never used to train AI
Your hiring data and candidate information stays yours — always.
Access controls
Role-based permissions for every member of your team.
Encryption
All data protected in transit and at rest.
Audit logs
A full record of every change made to your data.
Recruiting software for startups, explained
What lean hiring teams ask before they scale their process.
- A startup recruiting process often lives across founders, hiring managers, referrals, and a small recruiting team. Cooper gives everyone one shared standard and handles the repeatable reading and first conversation, so speed does not depend on one person's calendar.
- Yes. Your team defines the criteria and interview signal. Cooper applies the brief consistently and returns the evidence; founders and hiring managers keep the final call.
- No. Cooper is useful when the team needs more capacity or consistency, whether that means hundreds of applications for one role or a steady flow of specialist candidates across a growing company.
- Yes. You set the role-specific criteria and questions. Cooper can screen for skills, ownership, communication, domain experience, and the evidence your team considers meaningful.
- No. Cooper expands the team's capacity by taking on repeatable screening and first conversations. Your recruiters and hiring managers spend more time on judgment, relationships, and closing the right hire.
- Yes. Start with the role where the current process is slow or inconsistent, prove the workflow with real candidates, and then reuse the pattern as the company grows.
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