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Alex (YC W24) — Alex is the AI recruiter for hiring great people

Alex interviews, screens, and schedules every candidate – over voice, video, and text – so talent teams hire more great people, faster, without adding TA headcount. The recruiter stays in control: every shortlist is approved by a human, and every relationship and offer is owned by the customer's team.

Alex is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2024 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Alex is the AI recruiter for hiring great people. The founders listed are Aaron Wang (Founder/CEO), John Rytel (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, December 20, 2023).

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Alex

New accelerator entry · 2023-12-20 · the record

Winter 2024
batch
30
people
Early
stage
United States of America
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BatchWinter 2024
Announced2023-12-20
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size30
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Recruiting and Talent
SectorsArtificial Intelligence, SaaS, B2B, Recruiting, HR Tech
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringYes
Sitehttps://alex.com
Previously known asApriora

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Alex interviews, screens, and schedules every candidate – over voice, video, and text – so talent teams hire more great people, faster, without adding TA headcount. The recruiter stays in control: every shortlist is approved by a human, and every relationship and offer is owned by the customer's team. We're past 1M+ interviews, integrate with 33+ ATS platforms, and 96% of candidates prefer interviewing with Alex. We're revenue-generating, well-funded, backed by premier investors, and are focused on enterprise customers: selling to VPs of Talent Acquisition, CHROs, and CFOs at large employers who are rethinking how hiring gets done at scale.

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