Spott launches US expansion
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Spott doubles down on the US market
Spott is expanding into the United States, hiring former McKinsey consultant Tycho De Saeytyd as Head of US to build a local team and take on the largest recruitment market in the world.
The expansion follows a period of rapid growth that has seen the company scale from a small founding team to over 20 people, land customers on every continent, and earn a spot among the fastest-growing software companies in Belgium. By year-end, the team is expected to reach around 60 people globally.
Growth that earned the right to expand
Spott's trajectory has been driven by strong customer adoption and disciplined execution. The company grew from 4 to 21 people while spending only a fraction of its $3.2M seed round backed by Y Combinator and Base10 Partners - putting it close to profitability at a pace most SaaS companies do not reach this early.
Internationally, Spott is already working with firms such as CGP Group in Singapore and HW Anderson in the US. The platform has gained traction across Europe, Asia, and North America, with recruitment companies across markets actively choosing it over established incumbents.
That global pull - not just local push - is what made the US expansion a matter of when, not if.
Our growth gave us the confidence to move early in the US, the biggest recruitment market in the world. By year-end, we expect to be around 60 people globally.
Lander Degreve, Co-Founder & CEO
Tycho De Saeytyd joins as Head of US
To lead the expansion, Spott has hired Tycho De Saeytyd, formerly a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.
At McKinsey, Tycho advised global organisations on strategy, operations, and scaling - exactly the kind of work required to crack a new market. His background in structured problem-solving, assembling high-performing teams, and driving execution under pressure makes him a natural fit to build Spott's US operation from the ground up.
He will be responsible for building a local team with the ambition to reach around 10 people by end of year - covering sales, customer success, and partnerships.
Spott stood out to me for its strong traction, a great team, and a product that clearly delivers. It has the potential to make a strong impact on the global agency recruitment market.
Tycho De Saeytyd, Head of US
Hiring someone of Tycho's calibre reflects the seriousness of the commitment. This is not a remote experiment. It is a dedicated US operation with senior leadership driving it from day one.
My job is simple: land, build a team, and prove the product in the biggest recruitment market in the world.
Tycho De Saeytyd, Head of US
Taking on the legacy incumbents
The US recruitment technology market is dominated by platforms that were built before AI existed and have been retrofitting ever since. Firms pay premium prices for a base system, then stack add-ons for matching, note-taking, analytics, and automation - each with its own contract and cost.
Spott takes the opposite approach. As an AI-native ATS and CRM, every capability is built into the platform from the ground up:
- Semantic candidate matching that understands context from calls, notes, messages, and CVs - not just keywords
- Auto-generated notes from every call and meeting
- AI candidate reports built from transcriptions, CVs, and job descriptions in one click
- Continuous data enrichment that keeps your database current without manual effort
- Unified inbox across email, WhatsApp, and Socials
- Outreach campaigns with multi-channel sequences
Everything included. No add-on modules, no per-action AI fees, no separate contracts for features that should be standard.
What comes next
With Tycho on the ground and a local team taking shape, Spott is building the infrastructure to serve US firms with the same direct support and fast onboarding that its customers in Europe and Asia already experience.
The expansion is significant not just for who is leading it, but for what it signals. Entering the US, hiring senior McKinsey talent, and building toward 60 people globally by year-end - this is a company preparing for a much bigger stage.
Spott has all the ingredients to be the number one platform for agency recruiting, but it needs to crack the US, and I'm here to make that happen.
Tycho De Saeytyd, Head of US
If your firm is ready for a platform that works as hard as your recruiters do, book a demo and see it for yourself.
Frequently Asked
New York is the largest recruitment market in the US and home to a high density of staffing and executive search firms. Establishing a local presence there gives Spott direct access to the most competitive segment of the market and a strong base to expand across the US.
Tycho De Saeytyd, formerly a consultant at McKinsey & Company, has joined Spott as Head of US. He is responsible for building Spott's presence on the ground in New York and growing a local team, with the ambition to reach around 10 people by end of 2026.
Yes. Spott already works with US-based firms and is now expanding its local team to offer direct support, onboarding, and account management from New York. US firms can book a demo at spott.io/start.
Spott went from launch to US expansion in just seven months, growing the team from 4 to 21 people while working with recruitment firms across multiple continents. The company is backed by Y Combinator and raised a $3.2M seed round.
Spott is AI-native - built from the ground up with AI at its core, not retrofitted onto legacy architecture. The platform unifies candidate, client, and job data into a single workspace with semantic matching, auto-generated notes, data enrichment, and workflow automation all included as standard.
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