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Standout

Agentic hiring marketplace

7 employees
Recruiting and Talent
Seed · $5.5M
Founded 2025
WebsiteLinkedInX / Twitter

About Standout

Standout is an agentic hiring marketplace that provides AI agents for both tech talent and hiring companies to assess fit and make direct introductions, replacing traditional job applications and recruiter outreach. Representation is free for talent, while companies pay only after a successful hire. The company was founded in 2025, is based in San Francisco, and is a member of Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch.

Open positions (3)

Content Creator

Full-time
San Francisco, CA
$100k – $400k
0.1% - 1% equity

Founding Sales / Talent Scout

Full-time
San Francisco, exceptional candidates)
$120k – $160k
0.1% - 0.5% equity

Founding AI Product Engineer

Full-time
San Francisco, CA
$160k – $240k
1% - 2% equity

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Company details

Team Size7
IndustryRecruiting and Talent
Founded2025

Funding

Total raised

$5.5M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
Inovo.vc
Pioneer Fund
Eight Capital
Palm Drive Capital

Founders

Alexis Aftalion

Alexis Aftalion

Previously COO at Zealy (formerly CREW³), a Web3 community engagement platform he helped scale to 1.5M MAU and $3M ARR in 12 months. Left Zealy (and significant equity) to co-found Standout.

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Witold de La Chapelle

Witold de La Chapelle

Previously an engineer at Dropbox, Samsara, and Chime. Also independently built a job board that reached 100K MAU before co-founding Standout.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.