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ModernLoop
ModernLoop is a San Mateo, California recruiting operations platform that automates interview scheduling and candidate communication for talent teams. Founded in 2020 by former Slack and Facebook product leaders Lydia Han and Christopher Triolo, it syncs with calendars, Slack, Zoom/Google Meet, and every major ATS to coordinate interviews, balance interviewer load, and run branded candidate portals. In 2025 the company expanded into AI with Taylor AI, an always-on AI recruiter that automates phone screens, FAQs, and zero-click scheduling for high-volume hiring.
Lydia Han
Lydia Han is the co-founder and CEO of ModernLoop, a recruiting operations platform she started in December 2020 to fix the chaos of coordinating hundreds of interviews. A product manager by training, she built Slack's calendar and Zoom integrations and set up Brex's interview process before founding the company through Y Combinator's W21 batch. ModernLoop has raised roughly $12.4M, including a $9M Series A led by Accel with the CEOs of Slack and Zoom writing checks, and powers hiring for companies like Ramp, Benchling, Chainalysis, and VSCO.
Samson Wu
Samson Wu is a Recruiting Operations Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms. With roots in economics from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and formative stints at AIESEC, Uber, and CloudKitchens, he has become a key architect of how a16z and its portfolio companies find and hire world-class talent. He supports the firm's New Media team as an HR Business Partner and brings operational rigor to recruiting functions that span early-stage startups to growth-stage companies across the a16z portfolio.