Yello Due Diligence

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United States · owned by Independent (United States) · yello.co · 24 vendors

Yello is a talent acquisition platform that enables large enterprises to deliver personalized candidate experiences and power campus recruiting programs. The company specializes in early talent recruiting, sourcing, and recruitment operations for Fortune 500 companies.

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7 services in catalogue across 3 categories; runs on 24 sub-vendors.

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Last updated 2026-07-30 · revision 13

24 direct vendors, 237 subvendors

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Compliance

8 in-scope frameworks identified; showing 3.

EEOC Compliance — Evidence found

Evidence: https://yello.co/government-recruiting/, https://yello.co/trust-and-security/

ISO 27001 (source) — Evidence found

Evidence: https://trust.yello.co/, https://yello.co/trust-and-security/

EU AI Act (source) — No public evidence

Evidence: https://yello.co/trust-and-security/, https://yello.co/ai/

Financials

Three-year financials

Financial Resilience Score: 6/10

Yello is a well-established private SaaS company with 17+ years of operating history, a blue-chip enterprise customer base including approximately 100 of the Fortune 500, and institutional backing from growth-equity investor JMI Equity. Its niche leadership in campus and early-career recruiting, combined with an expanding product surface (AI Campus Recruiting Agent, FedRAMP-authorized government recruiting, WayUp sourcing, Symba post-offer engagement), suggests a sticky enterprise SaaS revenue model with multi-year contracts. However, financial resilience cannot be definitively assessed due to complete opacity of audited financials—no revenue, EBIT, or equity figures are publicly disclosed. The company faces cyclical demand risk in campus/early-career hiring, which saw notable pullbacks in tech and finance graduate hiring during 2023-2025. Competitive pressure from large HCM suites (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle), modern ATS players (Greenhouse, Ashby, Eightfold), and AI-native entrants (Paradox, HireVue) is intensifying. Given the 2019 growth round, Yello is likely due for a new financing event, strategic sale, or a path to cash-flow break-even in the current higher-rate environment. M&A integration risk from recent WayUp and Symba acquisitions adds complexity. A middle score reflects strong qualitative signals (long tenure, marquee customers, backed by reputable investor) offset by unverifiable financials and structural headwinds.

Key strengths: Blue-chip enterprise customer base including ~100 of the Fortune 500, 17+ years of operating history since 2008, Institutional backing from JMI Equity (2019 growth round ~$45M), Niche leadership in campus/early-career recruiting, Expanding product suite with AI, government (FedRAMP), and post-offer engagement offerings, Multi-year enterprise SaaS contracts providing sticky recurring revenue, Global platform reach across 70+ countries and 15+ languages

Risk factors: No public financials — complete opacity on liquidity, profitability, and leverage, Cyclical demand tied to campus/early-career hiring cycles, Competitive pressure from large HCM suites (Workday, SAP, Oracle) and AI-native entrants, M&A integration risk from WayUp and Symba acquisitions, Customer concentration risk in large Fortune 500 accounts, Likely refinancing/exit event needed given time since 2019 growth round, Higher interest rate environment pressuring private SaaS valuations

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