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The Recruiter That Wants to Be Inside the Company Before It Writes the Check
Cannon Project recruits the people who make an early startup real, then selectively backs the companies it has helped assemble. Its wager is simple: hiring is not only a service - it is a way to see the market from inside the engine room.
Qlay
Qlay is a San Francisco-based AI hiring company that sources, vets, and shortlists remote engineering talent - notably from Vietnam and Africa - and pairs it with an AI Proctor that catches AI-assisted cheating during interviews and coding tests. Using eye-gaze tracking, speech analysis, a phone-as-second-camera setup, and process monitoring, Qlay aims to make technical hiring both fast (shortlists in about a week) and trustworthy in an era when candidates can quietly lean on tools like ChatGPT.
Terminal
Terminal is a global talent platform that helps companies build and manage remote engineering teams across Canada, Latin America and Europe. It vets developers, handles employment, payroll and benefits as employer of record, and matches them with startups and enterprises hiring full-time or contract engineers.
Zabie Elmgren
Zabie Elmgren is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) on the American Dynamism investing team, where she backs founders building companies at the intersection of AI and the physical world - from industrial infrastructure to defense technology. Before a16z, she was a Partner at Index Ventures leading early-stage B2B and B2C software investments. Her career started unconventionally: as part of the founding team at Human Capital, she helped grow a recruiting firm into a $600M+ venture fund while studying computer science at Harvard, personally placing early engineers at Brex, Robinhood, Snowflake, and Nuro.