— About AndHire · Est. 2024

Recruiting,
rebuilt for
the velocity
of building.

The best teams don't have a hiring problem. They have a time problem.

Founded · Brooklyn, NY Team · 22 people Backed by · Index, Initialized, 12 founders Placements · 1,400+ since 2024

The thesis.

Hiring is the highest-leverage activity inside any company under fifty people. It is also, almost universally, the worst-instrumented one. Founders write a job description, post it to four boards, and then spend nine weeks reading résumés in tabs they meant to close two days ago.

AndHire was built on a simple premise: the inputs to a great hire are knowable, and most of the work between knowing and signing is mechanical. We built a candidate graph deeper than any single recruiter could carry in their head, a calibration model that learns from every search we run, and a workspace that turns shortlists into signed offers in under two weeks.

We work with venture-backed startups in their first hundred hires, and with the e-commerce brands that are growing past the founder-as-recruiter stage. We charge a flat fee per hire, and we do not collect a cent until you sign an offer. We do not believe a fifteen-percent placement rake is the right way to align our incentives with yours. We never have.

Operating principles.

01

The shortlist is the product.

If we send you twelve candidates and you interview ten, we shipped a bad shortlist. The goal is calibration so tight that every name on the list is a real maybe.

02

No fees until you sign.

Misaligned incentives produce mediocre hires. We get paid when our work survives the offer stage, and not a moment before.

03

Candidates are not leads.

Every person in our network has a real human relationship with someone on our team. We do not spam. We do not sell data. We do not blast.

04

Models are tools, not decisions.

AI ranks; humans recommend. Every match is reviewed by a recruiter who has placed in that role before, and who will pick up the phone when something is off.

The people
behind the work.

We're hiring · 6 open roles

A small group of recruiters, engineers, and operators who got tired of how recruiting was done and decided to fix it.

Maya Holzer
Co-founder · CEO

Previously led talent at Ramp and Brex. Believes the median offer letter goes out three weeks too late.

Jonas Park
Co-founder · CTO

Ex-Stripe ML. Spent four years building search ranking, now building people ranking.

Ife Adesina
Head of Recruiting

Closed 220+ roles for Series A–C startups. Has a strong opinion about take-home tests.

Lukas Brenner
Head of Engineering

Distributed systems. Built the matching graph from a Notion doc and a flight to Lisbon.

A short history.

2024
A founding team of three, a single Notion doc, and one DTC brand willing to let us run a search.
Maya and Jonas left Ramp and Stripe respectively, cold-emailed forty founders, and ran the first three placements out of a Brooklyn kitchen. Average time-to-offer: 14 days.
2024
$6M seed led by Index, with participation from Initialized and twelve founder-operators.
The capital went into the candidate graph and the matching model. We hired our first six recruiters, all of whom had placed at the seed-to-series-B stage.
2025
First 500 placements. The model starts predicting first-year retention better than any rubric we'd seen.
By summer, AndHire was the default first-call for two dozen seed funds. We added the workspace product so candidates and hiring managers stopped living in inboxes.
2026
1,400 placements. 240 active hiring partners. A second office in Lisbon.
We are still small. We still pick up the phone. We are still measured by one number: how many of last quarter's hires are still building this quarter.

Hire with us, or
come build with us.