Bullhorn acquires KonaSearch

Today, Bullhorn acquired KonaSearch (“Kona”), a BasisTech portfolio company that offers match and discovery solutions for staffing, recruiting, and executive search businesses on the Salesforce platform.

Staffing, recruiting, and executive search businesses need access to deep, comprehensive historical data on job histories and career achievements. Kona’s powerful, easy-to-use, cross-entity and deep-text search ingests and analyzes this data, specifically for the Salesforce platform. Acquiring Kona provides Bullhorn with expertise and technology to support faster, higher-quality placements, especially for their executive search customers on the Salesforce platform.

BasisTech G.K. will continue to provide sales and support services for Kona in Japan on behalf of Bullhorn. The BasisTech team in Tokyo remains totally committed to the success of its customers, and to its partnership with Salesforce Japan.

“We are excited that Bullhorn has acquired KonaSearch,”  said Carl Hoffman, CEO of BasisTech, “Andrew McKay and the entire Kona team have done an outstanding job building AI-powered search for Salesforce. They have engineered an elegant and highly performant solution to the challenges posed by complex data sets at extreme scale. We look forward to working with Bullhorn to continue growing Kona’s market share in Japan.”

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