# Joss Leufrancois

> Joss Leufrancois is the co-founder and CEO of Visage, an AI-and-human recruitment platform that crowdsources qualified, ready-to-interview candidates for large employers. A French-born entrepreneur who learned recruiting across London, Dubai, and the US, he previously co-founded and ran the recruitment agency Aldelia before selling it, then launched Visage in Dubai in 2015-2016. Today he runs the fully remote company from a ranch near Austin, Texas, blending a global sourcer network with data science to build candidate pipelines in 24-48 hours for clients that have included Tesla, Adecco, GoDaddy, and Virgin.

- **Role:** Co-Founder, CEO and Acting CRO at Visage
- **Organizations:** Visage, Aldelia, Hopward, Rolebot
- **From:** France
- **Nationality:** French
- **Education:** M.B.A., Not publicly detailed
- **Known for:** Built Visage into a recruitment platform serving enterprise clients including Tesla, Adecco, GoDaddy and Virgin, Grew Visage to reported high-teens millions in ARR on roughly $8M raised, Assembled a global sourcer network of 3,000+ recruiters delivering candidate pipelines in 24-48 hours

## Career timeline

- **~2005** — Left France; began a decade of international recruiting, starting with six years in London
- **~2011** — Co-founded and served as COO of Aldelia, a recruitment/RPO business operating across multiple countries
- **2015** — Exited his recruitment agency; proceeds funded his next venture
- **2015-2016** — Co-founded Visage in Dubai with Barry Potier and CTO Emmanuel Marboeuf
- **2016** — Visage raised angel investment from Dubai Angel Investors and other UAE-based backers
- **2021** — Visage raised a Series A (reported latest funding), part of roughly $8-8.9M total
- **Present** — Leads Visage as CEO and Acting CRO from a ranch near Austin, Texas

## Achievements

- Built Visage into a recruitment platform serving enterprise clients including Tesla, Adecco, GoDaddy and Virgin
- Grew Visage to reported high-teens millions in ARR on roughly $8M raised
- Assembled a global sourcer network of 3,000+ recruiters delivering candidate pipelines in 24-48 hours
- Previously co-founded and ran Aldelia, a recruitment business spanning multiple countries, and exited it
- Built a fully remote company of ~80 people across 27 nationalities with a majority-diverse leadership team
- Created a diversity sourcer certification program within Visage

## Latest updates

- **2021-03** — Visage's most recent reported funding round (Series A), part of roughly $8.9M total raised.
- **2024** — Continues to lead Visage as Co-Founder, CEO and Acting CRO, based near Austin, Texas.

## Links

- Website: https://visage.jobs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jossleufrancois/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/visageae
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/visagefinder/

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Last updated: 2026-07-16