Job MobzFounded
Recruiting and staffing firm built around Recruiting as a Service, with offices in San Francisco, Reno and New York. The cash engine that funded everything after it.
The record
Eight completed acquisitions in three years, bootstrapped. Ordered by close date, because in this business the sequence is the strategy. Terms are shown wherever they were made public, and every figure below is sourced at the bottom of this page.
Deals
Founded, acquired, and consolidated, in order.
Verified
Recruiter.comBrand and IP
Job Mobz acquired the Recruiter.com brand, platform and recruiter network. The first deal that proved the model: buy a well-known name whose economics had stopped working.
$1.5M cash at close · $250K within 90 days · 10% equity in Job Mobz · quarterly profit share from Q1 2024 · 3-year services agreement6BountyJobs
Contingent search marketplace, acquired by Recruiter.com. Added employer-side demand to a recruiter-side network.
Employer.comDomain
Bought the domain outright and made it the operating brand. A category-defining name costs less than the marketing budget required to build one.
$450,0007Bench Accounting
Bench shut down abruptly on December 27, stranding thousands of small businesses mid-books over the holidays. We signed roughly 48 hours later and brought the service back online. I had never met anyone on the Bench team before that Saturday afternoon.8
MainStreet
R&D tax credits and business incentives, with a 15-person team. Slotted directly underneath the bookkeeping data we already held.
Undisclosed · group valued at ~$700M after close3Dough
SMB accounting software. The deal started as a DM on X from the founder, a 19-year-old Stanford dropout, and never went to market.
MainstreetHolding company founded
Mainstreet Holding Company was founded in 2025 as the parent. Bench, MainStreet and Dough were folded into a single product and relaunched under the Mainstreet name. Three brands, one platform, one ledger.
CapbaseFrom Deel
Entity formation, cap tables and governance, bought from Deel alongside a reciprocal partnership: Deel becomes our preferred EOR and PEO partner, we become theirs for Delaware incorporation.
Undisclosed · reciprocal partnership with Deel9FeenyxMost recent
AI hiring platform for skills-based evaluation: assessments, async and live interviews, candidate verification and fraud detection. Had raised $25.3M and run more than 600,000 hours of candidate evaluations before we bought it.
Undisclosed · now operating as Feenyx, a Recruiter.com Company10Press
Independent coverage only. Contributor bylines are marked.
BusinesswireRecruiter.com Acquires Feenyx to Help Employers Evaluate Candidates on Skills, Not ResumesAug 2026TechCrunchEmployer.com scoops up another fintech in purchase of MainStreet.comMay 2025FinTech FuturesEmployer.com acquires tax credit fintech MainStreetMay 2025Fox NewsFrom firefighter to TikTok bidder: my $30 billion mission (opinion, by Jesse)Mar 2025BloombergTikTok Bidders to Offer ‘Significantly’ More Than $20 BillionJan 2025TechCrunchBench to be acquired after abruptly shutting downDec 2024Staffing IndustryRecruiter.com acquires recruitment marketplace BountyJobsNov 2024
Sources
Every figure on this site, and where it came from.
01CountEight completed acquisitions counted from public announcements: Recruiter.com, BountyJobs, the Employer.com domain, Bench, MainStreet, Dough, Capbase and Feenyx. No official portfolio count has been published.
02Company reported$4.3B in aggregate transaction value across the portfolio as of July 2026, per Mainstreet Holding Company boilerplate. Businesswire, Aug 31 2026. Not independently verified.
03Verified~$700M valuation, ~500 employees, and the “G Suite for the business back office” quote. TechCrunch, May 5 2025.
04StatedBootstrapped, with “no fancy VC backing, no trust fund, no safety net.” Fox News opinion, Mar 10 2025.
05StatedCalFire firefighter before founding his first company. Fox News opinion, Mar 10 2025.
06VerifiedRecruiter.com deal terms. Yahoo Finance, Aug 2023; RecruitingDaily.
07VerifiedEmployer.com domain sold for $450,000. RecTech Media, Dec 2024.
08VerifiedBench shutdown and 48-hour acquisition, including the “Saturday afternoon” line, which Jesse posted on X and TechCrunch quoted. TechCrunch, Jan 3 2025.
09Company reportedCapbase acquisition, Deel partnership and the “Founders shouldn't need to be CFOs” quote. PR Newswire, Oct 1 2025.
10VerifiedFeenyx acquisition, $25.3M raised and 600,000+ evaluation hours. Businesswire, Aug 31 2026.
11Verified“Know what your outcome objective is” quote, pulled by the publisher. Founders in Arms, Feb 7 2025.
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