What it sells
Digital risk screening for high-trust hiring and safeguarding: searches surface, deep and dark web sources, enriches with AI, and has ex-military-intelligence analysts verify findings into background risk reports.
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
HR and safeguarding leads
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Safeguarding duties; professional vetting can cost £1,500 per search
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Pre-hire and workforce screening
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
10,000+ searches per day vs about 15 for a human analyst
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Direct: self-serve sign-up (app.safehire.ai) plus demo booking, sector landing pages (safeguarding, corporate), and Partner plans via API for background-screening firms, ATS/HRIS and insurers.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-07 | Seed (follow-on) | €583.2K (£500K) | A private investor | eu-startups.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.