
Leap.ai uses AI to refer and match job seekers to the right company and guarantee interviews for tech job seekers. It utilizes AI and Google executive expertise to help its users to land opportunities where they have the best chance to shine and enable their career success and happiness at scale through a creative recruiting solution, targeted career advice, and mentorship. Leap is founded by two former Google engineers, Richard Liu and Yunkai Zhou.

Leap.ai uses AI to refer and match job seekers to the right company and guarantee interviews for tech job seekers. It utilizes AI and Google executive expertise to help its users to land opportunities where they have the best chance to shine and enable their career success and happiness at scale through a creative recruiting solution, targeted career advice, and mentorship. Leap is founded by two former Google engineers, Richard Liu and Yunkai Zhou.
Product: AI-driven recruiting platform that matches tech job seekers to companies and aimed to help candidates secure interviews
Founders: Richard Liu (co-founder & CEO) and Yunkai Zhou (co-founder & CTO), both former Google engineers
Funding: Reported total funding: 3,380,000.00 USD; multiple seed rounds reported (2017–2024)
Status / HQ: Listed on Crunchbase as permanently closed; location listed as Santa Clara, California
Talent recruitment and candidate-company matching for technical roles
Recruiting
$1,000,000
$2,400,000
3,380,000.00 USD
$1,400,000
“Reported investors include ZhenFund and Founders Inc.; other participants and backers named include Gaingels, Carya Venture Partners, David Cramer, Paul Copplestone, Xuhui Shao, Rich Liu, and Eric Rosenblum.”