Paradox Due Diligence
Run due diligence on Paradox: check compliance and get alerts when suppliers change.
United States · www.paradox.ai · 23 vendors
Paradox offers conversational recruiting software, powered by its AI assistant Olivia, to automate tasks such as candidate screening, interview scheduling, and answering candidate questions. The company aims to streamline the hiring process, enabling recruiting and talent acquisition teams to focus more on human interaction and less on administrative software tasks.
Resilience scores
- Digital Sovereignty: 91
- Digital Resilience: 8
- Financial Resilience: 8
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Services catalogue
2 services in catalogue across 2 categories; runs on 23 sub-vendors.
- Conversational AI
- Paradox
Insights
Last updated 2026-08-04 · revision 1
23 direct vendors, 260 subvendors
Direct vendors by controlling owner country (sample)
- United States: 21
- Australia: 1
- Hong Kong: 1
Subvendors by controlling owner country (sample)
- Japan: 4
- Italy: 1
- Unknown: 2
Compliance
9 in-scope frameworks identified; showing 3.
GDPR (source) — Evidence found
Evidence: https://www.paradox.ai/legal/security, https://www.paradox.ai/legal/privacy-policy, https://www.workday.com/en-us/privacy.html, https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/
CPRA — Evidence found
Evidence: https://www.paradox.ai, https://www.workday.com/en-us/privacy.html, https://www.paradox.ai/legal/privacy-policy
EEOC — Evidence found
Evidence: https://www.paradox.ai/ethical-ai, https://www.paradox.ai, https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/questions-and-answers-clarify-and-provide-common-interpretation-uniform-guidelines
Financials
Three-year financials
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Financial Resilience Score: 8/10
Paradox demonstrates strong financial resilience despite the absence of publicly disclosed audited financials. As a private venture-backed company, it raised approximately $93 million in disclosed funding across multiple rounds, including a $40M Series B in 2020 and a reported $200M Series C in 2022 at a ~$1.5 billion valuation. Growth signals are robust: revenue grew >720% from 2020 to 2023, implying a ~90-100% CAGR, and the company was named to the Inc. 5000 for five consecutive years and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for four consecutive years. The October 2025 acquisition by Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY) substantially strengthens Paradox's resilience profile. Workday held over $8 billion in cash and marketable securities, eliminating any refinancing or liquidity risk for Paradox. Paradox also benefits from a blue-chip enterprise customer base with sticky SaaS contracts across Chipotle, 7-Eleven, McDonald's franchisees, Marriott, GM, Nestlé, and others, along with significant transaction scale (32 million interviews projected for 2025, roughly one in ten U.S. interviews). Risks include customer concentration in cyclical hourly-labor industries (QSR, retail, hospitality), AI regulatory exposure (EEOC, NYC AEDT, Illinois, Colorado laws), competitive pressure from HireVue, iCIMS, Phenom, Eightfold, and embedded AI in Workday/Oracle/SAP, and probable historical operating losses typical of high-growth SaaS. Integration risk with Workday is also material, particularly for customers on competing HCM platforms.
Key strengths: Acquired by Workday (Oct 2025), a well-capitalized parent with >$8B in cash, ~$93M+ in disclosed venture funding raised (Series B $40M, Series C ~$200M), >720% cumulative revenue growth 2020-2023 (~90-100% CAGR), Blue-chip enterprise customer base with sticky SaaS contracts, 32 million interviews scheduled in 2025 (~1 in 10 U.S. interviews), Five consecutive years on Inc. 5000; four on Deloitte Fast 500, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified, Strong partner ecosystem (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Indeed, ZipRecruiter)
Risk factors: Customer concentration in cyclical hourly-labor industries (QSR, retail, hospitality), AI regulatory risk (EEOC, NYC AEDT, state-level automated employment decision laws), Competitive pressure from HireVue, iCIMS, Phenom, Eightfold, and embedded AI in HCM suites, Probable historical operating losses given high-growth SaaS profile, M&A integration risk with Workday, especially for SAP/Oracle HCM customers, No public financial disclosure limits transparency
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