
Sourceress is an AI recruiter that is reinventing how people find jobs. With tailor-made machine learning models, they rigorously define what a company is looking for in a role, identify great candidates, and engage candidates with highly personalized introductions. Their process creates a stream of interested candidates that hiring managers are excited about more than 85% of the time. Their mission is to accelerate human progress by helping people work in jobs that matter. They raised $3M from Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners and OpenAI researchers.

Sourceress is an AI recruiter that is reinventing how people find jobs. With tailor-made machine learning models, they rigorously define what a company is looking for in a role, identify great candidates, and engage candidates with highly personalized introductions. Their process creates a stream of interested candidates that hiring managers are excited about more than 85% of the time. Their mission is to accelerate human progress by helping people work in jobs that matter. They raised $3M from Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners and OpenAI researchers.
Sector: AI recruiting / candidate sourcing
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Seed raise: $3–3.5M (Nov 2017)
Founders: Kanjun Qiu (CEO), Josh Albrecht (CTO)
Operating status: Closed
Recruiting / talent sourcing — reducing mismatch between job openings and candidates through ML-driven personalization.
Human resources / recruiting; AI
$3,000,000–$3,500,000
Reported participation from Y Combinator, Dropbox founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, and OpenAI researchers.
“Raised seed capital from institutional and prominent individual investors (Lightspeed Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Drew Houston, Arash Ferdowsi, and OpenAI researchers).”