# Aaron Wang

> Aaron Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Alex (formerly Apriora), a San Francisco AI company whose autonomous recruiter, also named Alex, runs thousands of phone and video interviews a day for Fortune 100s, Big Four accounting firms, and staffing agencies. A Brown triple major who went from a quant trading desk and Facebook AI Research to a Y Combinator startup, Wang bet that a 10-minute conversation reveals more than any LinkedIn profile, then bought the alex.com domain for more than $500K to prove it. The company raised a $17M Series A led by Peak XV Partners in September 2025.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Alex (formerly Apriora)
- **Organizations:** Alex (formerly Apriora), Pioneer Fund, Y Combinator (W24)
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Triple major across Computer Science, Computational Biology, Applied Mathematics and Economics; cross-registration at Harvard University, Brown University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Alex, an AI recruiter conducting thousands of autonomous interviews a day, Raised a $17M Series A led by Peak XV Partners (September 2025), bringing total funding to roughly $20M, Drove an 80%+ reduction in time-to-hire for enterprise talent teams

## Career timeline

- **Pre-Apriora** — Machine Learning Engineer at Alation
- **Pre-Apriora** — Quant at Arrowstreet Capital, a quantitative hedge fund
- **Pre-Apriora** — AI Research Engineer at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), working on self-supervised computer vision (Barlow twins) and AR experiences for the Orion glasses project
- **2023** — Co-founded Apriora with John Rytel in San Francisco
- **2024** — Apriora goes through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch; raises $3M seed (1984 Ventures)
- **2025** — Rebrands Apriora to Alex after acquiring the alex.com domain for over $500K
- **2025-09** — Raises $17M Series A led by Peak XV Partners, with Y Combinator and Uncorrelated Ventures plus Fortune 500 CHROs participating; total funding reaches ~$20M

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Alex, an AI recruiter conducting thousands of autonomous interviews a day
- Raised a $17M Series A led by Peak XV Partners (September 2025), bringing total funding to roughly $20M
- Drove an 80%+ reduction in time-to-hire for enterprise talent teams
- Achieved 90%+ interview completion rates and a 4.5/5 average candidate experience rating
- Won customers among Fortune 100s, Big Four accounting firms, financial institutions, and national staffing agencies
- Contributed to self-supervised computer vision research and AR object detection at Facebook AI Research

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Closed a $17M Series A led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from Y Combinator, Uncorrelated Ventures, and several Fortune 500 CHROs.
- **2025-09** — Confirmed the rebrand from Apriora to Alex, anchored by the alex.com domain purchase.

## Links

- Website: https://alex.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronjwang

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Last updated: 2026-06-20