Lever is a software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and Toronto, Canada that provides an applicant tracking system for hiring.

It was founded in 2012 by Nate Smith, Sarah Nahm, Randal Truong, and Brian Noguchi.

It is backed by an advisory board which includes Aaron Levie, Marissa Mayer, and Jeremy Stoppelman.

[1] Smith began Lever in 2012 and was accepted into Y Combinator with the goal of applying this framework to the problem of hiring talent.

[5] In Jan 2016, Lever announced it raised a $20 million Series B led by Scale Venture Partners.