# Alex

> Alex is a San Francisco AI recruiting company whose voice and video agents conduct candidate interviews, screening, and scheduling at scale. Spun out of Y Combinator (W24, formerly Apriora), Alex automates the early, repetitive stages of hiring - phone screens, resume reviews, identity verification, and coordination - across video, phone, SMS, and WhatsApp in 26 languages. The platform has interviewed more than a million candidates for Fortune 100 companies, major banks, national restaurant chains, and Big 4 firms, cutting time-to-hire while letting human recruiters focus on relationships and final decisions.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Aaron Wang (Co-Founder & CEO), John Rytel (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~49 employees
- **Products:** AI Interviews, Coordinator, Verify, Resume Screens, Talent Match
- **Notable:** Graduated Y Combinator (Winter 2024) as Apriora before rebranding to Alex, Raised $20M total funding including a $17M Series A led by Peak XV Partners, Interviewed more than 1 million candidates

## Products & services

- **AI Interviews** — Personalized, real-time voice and video interviews - technical screens, behavioral, coding, system design and phone screens - conducted autonomously and available 24/7.
- **Coordinator** — Automates candidate outreach, scheduling, follow-ups and ATS updates across video, phone, SMS and WhatsApp.
- **Verify** — Identity validation and fraud/cheating detection to flag fraudulent or misrepresented candidates.
- **Resume Screens** — Intelligent resume analysis to surface qualified candidates quickly.
- **Talent Match** — Rediscovers and re-engages existing candidates already sitting in a company's ATS.

## Achievements

- Graduated Y Combinator (Winter 2024) as Apriora before rebranding to Alex
- Raised $20M total funding including a $17M Series A led by Peak XV Partners
- Interviewed more than 1 million candidates
- 96% candidate satisfaction (5-star reviews)
- Supports 26 languages and 33 ATS integrations
- Voice AI conducting thousands of interviews daily for Fortune 100 companies
- Acquired the premium domain alex.com (reportedly $500K+) for the rebrand

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Raised $17M Series A led by Peak XV Partners, bringing total funding to $20M; announced the platform has interviewed over a million candidates.
- **2024** — Rebranded from Apriora to Alex and acquired the alex.com domain; raised ~$3M seed led by 1984 Ventures after graduating Y Combinator W24.

## Links

- Website: https://alex.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hire-alex

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Last updated: 2026-06-19