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Alex

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. 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.
Active Founders
Aaron Wang
Aaron Wang
Founder/CEO
Before Alex AI, Aaron worked in quant finance and at Facebook AI. He studied computer science, applied math, and economics at Brown.
John Rytel
John Rytel
Founder/CTO
Technical co-founder who just builds.
Company Launches
Alex (fka Apriora) - Your AI interviewer to identify the best candidates faster
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TLDR

Alex interviews job candidates in real time. Companies using Alex reduce recruiting overhead, interview more candidates, and make better hiring decisions. For candidates, we provide an equitable, interactive interviewing experience.

📸 Intro

Hey all! We’re Aaron Wang and John Rytel from Alex (fka Apriora).

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 The problem

Interview processes are slow and expensive. Companies spend over $5,000 per hire, most of which is time spent by internal recruiting teams and hiring managers interviewing candidates, and the average length for an interview process is ~30 days.

Existing video interviewing platforms were built to solve this for companies, but their one-way interfaces and cookie-cutter questions create a disappointing candidate experience, resulting in low completion rates and a limited hiring signal.

How can we offer companies the efficiency of interview automation while providing candidates with a personalized, conversational interview experience?

🚀 The solution

Our AI interviewer conducts real-time video interviews with candidates, including technical screens, phone screens, system design, coding, behavioral, and more.

Unlike interviewing your candidates manually or with an automated assessment, Alex is:

  • Convenient: Your AI interviewer is ready to interview candidates 24/7 with unlimited capacity.
  • Candidate First: Over 90% of scheduled candidates complete their interviews with an average candidate experience rating of 4.5/5.
  • Reliable: Data-driven feedback after each interview is customized to your hiring goals so you can feel confident that you’re moving forward with the right candidates.
  • Robust: Alex’s fairness system flags cheating based on multi-modal data, so you can trust your interviewer’s feedback.
  • Accessible: One-click integration with your ATS so you don’t need to change your workflow.

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Check out a full interview at apriora.ai/demo

🙏 Ask: How you can help

  1. Who do you know in recruiting or talent acquisition? We want to learn more about their work and help them! Reach out to founders@apriora.ai.
  2. Who do you know that’s hiring and could benefit from AI interviewing? Reach out to founders@apriora.ai.

The blurb: “My friends are working on a YC company building AI interviewers that conduct real-time video interviews. I think this could be relevant to you, so feel free to check them out and contact founders@apriora.ai for more.”

🤝 The Deal

Sign up before Demo Day to get started with our YC Deal. Reach out to founders@apriora.ai to set up your custom interviewer.

❤️ Thank you for taking the time to read through this. We’d love to hear your thoughts about what we’re building. Find some time here or shoot us an email.

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Jobs at Alex
San Francisco
$150K - $200K
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5+ years
San Francisco
$100K - $180K
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3+ years
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$150K - $180K
0.10% - 0.25%
5+ years
San Francisco
$100K - $250K
0.10% - 0.50%
Any (new grads ok)
Alex
Founded:2023
Batch:Winter 2024
Team Size:30
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Nicolas Dessaigne