This is our story
We are Santiago and Juan the cofounders of PeakU Inc, and this is how our story begins.
Santiago González
CEO & Co-founder
Juan Pablo Isaza
CTO & Co-founder
In early 2017, started exploring the market and its opportunities
We are old friends who brainstormed random ideas for a possible ventures and found out that both of us shared poor experiences trying to hire or getting a job.
Quit our jobs and founded PeakU in late 2017
Figured out the hurdes that companies and candidates faced and launched PeakU in only 3 weeks, that's when things got interesting.
During 2018, we navigated a rough sea with no beachhead in sight
Navigated a complicated sea of generalist recruitment agencies where we found difficulty differentiating from other alternatives, it was emotionally hard to take in.
By early 2019 we had landed in a death valley
The situation was dire: we had few clients, an app missing a good design and we were multitasking too much.
Pivoted to tech recruitment
In a last desperate attempt to change things over we pivoted to a tech recruiter, suddenly we had 20 clients.
Got into Rockstart in late 2019
Things had turned 180 degrees, we got into a top accelerator program and we were selected among the top 10 startups from more than 600 applicants.
Reached recognized brands and institutions
At the same time we closed deals with recognized brands and institutions such as Toyota and RutaN.
By early 2020, we met a unicorn in the wilderness
At this point we hired 'Rick', a TOP front-end and design developer, he redesigned the entire UI and improved the SEO and UX a lot, adding Vue.js as the front-end framework.
Jonathan Arias
Senior Frontend Developer
Alejandra Trillos
COO
A little later we hired a TOP sales person
We also hired Aleja, an INCREDIBLE sales executive, she has helped us reach clients in 8 new countries.
One year later, we released our Linkedin BOT
Despite the pandemic we released our first bot that automated the most operative work for our recruiters, this tool helped us scale our solution 10 times over.
Recognized by Forbes for 3 consecutive years: 2020, 2021, 2022
We were part of the top 100 startups in Colombia according to Forbes.
Added freelance recruiters
We reached out to hundreds of hundreds of freelance recruiters achieving a scalable with zero fixed costs.
Expanded candidate and company scope
With new hires we started serving candidates in a winder area, and focusing on international companies in the US and Europe: reaching 12 countries.
Started a bootcamp to teach software engineering
With the help of Thiago (the crack) and based on his experiences, we started a fullstack bootcamp, to help newcomers become great software developers!
Santiago Trujillo
Fullstack Dev
Released Roleplay to assess sales people
During this long journey we learned how to recruit sales people and released a product to recruit them.
Released skills assessment platform
At this point our technology is mature enough and we can sell our tests as a standalone product to a wider audience and at an affordable price.
Released people management solution
We have extended our recruiment platform and turned it into a employee platform, solving many ot the day o day complications that arise in the remote work place.
Today PeakU is an HR-super app
Despite all the problems that arose we never lost faith in ourselves and enthusiasm for the problen we were solving .