Toronto company selling an AI platform for structured behavioural interviews and skills assessment, using machine-learning scoring trained on objective competency data to reduce bias in hiring and student placement.
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Toronto company selling an AI platform for structured behavioural interviews and skills assessment, using machine-learning scoring trained on objective competency data to reduce bias in hiring and student placement.
Federal corporation 989814-0 (Knockri Inc.), registered office in Toronto, status Active. Its 2024 annual return is filed, 2025 is listed Overdue, 2026 due to be filed. Verified 2026-09-23. ised-isde.canada.ca
Raised a $3M CAD seed round (July 2020) led by Differential Ventures, with Bertelsmann Investments, Amplify Capital, MaRS IAF, Grand Ventures and others, taking total funding to $3.4M. betakit.com
CEO testified before the Senate as an expert witness on AI, economic security and human rights (September 2026). youtube.com
IBM's product blog describes Knockri scaling its structured-hiring platform on IBM watsonx.ai, watsonx Orchestrate and watsonx.governance, citing up to 60% faster hiring for enterprise teams. ibm.com
The Globe and Mail profiled Knockri, described as Toronto-based, on how AI is changing hiring and how candidates are adapting. theglobeandmail.com
Products Knockri publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
Structured behavioural interview & skills assessment
Company describes an assessment builder with pre-mapped or custom competency frameworks, machine-learning candidate scoring trained on objective data rather than historical hiring data, and active proctoring for asynchronous video interviews.
Learn moreAnnounced rounds only, newest first. Undisclosed amounts are shown as undisclosed.
Jul 23, 2020
Investors: Differential Ventures, Bertelsmann Investments, Amplify Capital, MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, Grand Ventures, Stout Street Capital, Green Egg
Publicly announced partnerships.
Built its hiring platform on IBM watsonx.ai, watsonx Orchestrate and watsonx.governance, per IBM's own product blog on scaling structured hiring.
Combined Knockri's AI soft-skills assessments with BHER's work-integrated learning programs across 10,000+ employers and 200 institutions, under a DIGITAL-funded project.
Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.
DIGITAL Supercluster — Addressing Non-Technical Skills Gaps for Early Professionals
CanExport, National Research Council Canada
Industrial Research Assistance Program – AI Assist, National Research Council Canada
National Defence — procurement contract
Global Affairs Canada — procurement contract
Canada School of Public Service — procurement contract
Public Service Commission of Canada — procurement contract
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat — procurement contract
Impact Assessment Agency of Canada — procurement contract
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada — procurement contract
Regional Relief and Recovery Fund (RRRF), Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms, National Research Council Canada — contribution
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program, National Research Council Canada
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms, National Research Council Canada — contribution
Knockri's CEO appeared before the Senate as an expert witness addressing AI, economic security and human rights.
IBM's product blog describes Knockri building its hiring workflows on watsonx.ai, watsonx Orchestrate and watsonx.governance, citing up to 60% faster hiring and a day less recruiter workload per hiring cycle.
Knockri and BHER launched a program combining Knockri's soft-skills assessments with BHER's work-integrated learning network to benefit more than 3,000 early-career participants.
Knockri's project, developed with the Business + Higher Education Roundtable and Dr. Piers Steel, was named one of 16 workforce-innovation initiatives under DIGITAL's $15M investment in Canadian talent development.
Sourced from the company's own pages or announcements.
Jahanzaib Ansari
Co-Founder
Faisal Ahmed
Co-Founder
Terms the company uses about its own work.
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