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The Daily Star reports that AgenticHire, an AI-based hiring startup founded by two Bangladeshi brothers and a Singapore-based co-founder, has raised more than $30,000 in non-dilutive support. The startup says its online hiring platform conducts initial candidate interviews and generates structured evidence briefs for employers.
The Daily Star reports that AgenticHire was founded in December 2025 by brothers Sabik Bin Sultan, its co-founder and CEO, and Shafi Bin Sultan, its co-founder and COO, alongside Haoyang Wu, its co-founder and CTO. The article says the wider founding team includes members from Kazakhstan, Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia.
According to The Daily Star, employers use AgenticHire to create a role-specific assessment and send candidates a link for a self-scheduled interview. The platform then produces a structured brief describing a candidate’s reported strengths and weaknesses and giving an overall recommendation; the employer retains the final hiring decision.
The article says the service has a free plan covering five interviews, a $100-per-month starter plan covering 200 interviews with all features, and a custom enterprise plan. The Daily Star reports that the company has made the product available more broadly, but the source does not independently verify availability, customer numbers, screening performance or pricing beyond the company’s statements.
The Daily Star reports that the startup’s more than $30,000 came from accelerator programmes, competitions, grants and institutional or banking partnerships, including support associated with East Ventures’ My First $1000 and several named organisations. The company says it has not held a formal investment round and has given up no equity.
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The report describes a concrete, currently priced AI hiring product built by student founders and aimed at a specific staffing bottleneck for early-stage technology companies. Its non-dilutive funding model may be relevant to other young founders, while the product raises practical questions about how employers should use automated screening evidence in consequential employment decisions. The Daily Star’s account and the company’s claims have not been independently confirmed.
The reported product targets a recognizable early-stage hiring constraint: founders or senior engineers conducting repeated first-round screening calls without dedicated recruiting staff. If the workflow performs as described, it could reduce time spent on initial screening while leaving the hiring decision with a human employer.
That potential benefit does not establish that the system is accurate, unbiased or suitable for employment decisions. The source provides no independent evaluation, error analysis, demographic audit, customer retention data or evidence that the generated recommendations improve hiring outcomes. Those unknowns matter because automated screening can influence access to work even when a human makes the final decision.
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The key follow-up is whether AgenticHire can demonstrate reliable, fair screening in real hiring workflows and convert its reported early availability into sustained customer use. The company also says it is exploring further funding, expanding into new markets and growing its team.
The Daily Star reports that AgenticHire plans to improve the product using user feedback, expand into new markets, grow its team and seek additional funding. Future reporting should establish whether those plans result in disclosed customers, measurable usage and independently assessable results.
Important unknowns include the models and evaluation methods used, how candidate data is stored and handled, what accommodations are available to candidates, how employers review or challenge recommendations, and whether the company has tested for disparate impacts across applicant groups.