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Amir Reiter Bet the Agency on a Marketplace - Then Went Back to the Work That Mattered
CloudTask’s founder traded a profitable service business for a risky marketplace, learned where software ends and trust begins, and rebuilt around a stubborn idea: careers compound when companies invest in people before they look obvious.
Boris Krastev Cleaned 3,500 Toilets Before He Built a Global Hiring Company
Before RemoteMore connected companies with engineers across borders, its CEO was funding his Danish education with factory shifts, warehouse cleaning and a schedule that left little room for sleep. The useful lesson in Boris Krastev's story is not heroic suffering - it is his stubborn habit of turning each failed model into a more practical one.
RemoteMore Failed Twice, Then Built a 50,000-Engineer Shortcut for Lean Tech Teams
Two founders named Boris burned through two startup ideas before finding the expensive bottleneck hiding behind remote work: companies did not need more resumes - they needed qualified interviews, compliant payroll and specialists who could start without months of overhead.
Codility
Codility is a B2B SaaS platform for technical hiring that lets enterprises assess software engineers' real-world coding skills remotely and at scale. Founded in 2009 and bootstrapped for a decade before raising a $22M Series A in 2020, it offers automated coding assessments, live technical interviews and skills-intelligence tools used by teams at companies including GitHub, Tesla, SAP and Barclays. It is also known publicly for its free algorithm 'Lessons' that developers use to practice for interviews.
FloCareer
FloCareer is an AI-powered and expert-led interviewing platform that lets companies outsource their hiring interviews at scale. Through its Interview-as-a-Service model it deploys a network of 8,000+ vetted industry interviewers (FloExperts), while its AI interviewer NIVO conducts automated screening and coding interviews around the clock. The company helps 700+ organizations run structured, proctored, unbiased interviews with fast turnaround, reducing recruiter load and time-to-hire.
HackerEarth
HackerEarth is a developer-assessment and technical-hiring platform that helps companies screen, interview, and hire software engineers using automated coding tests, live coding interviews, and AI-driven interviewers. Founded in 2012 by IIT Roorkee alumni Sachin Gupta and Vivek Prakash, it pairs enterprise recruiting software with one of the largest developer communities in the world, built through years of hackathons and programming contests. Today it serves hundreds of enterprise customers and is repositioning around AI-powered interviewing and evaluation.
Flatfee
Flatfee (flatfeecorp.com) is a Palo Alto-based startup that helps businesses go global without setting up an office in every country. Through a managed marketplace of vetted local vendors, it bundles company formation, trademark and IP registration, bookkeeping, tax and VAT compliance, payroll, HR and e-commerce store setup across 58+ countries into one flat-fee platform. Founded by former international lawyer Ning Zhang, it targets e-commerce sellers, startups and entrepreneurs who need to operate cross-border in compliance without the usual translation, engagement and referral headaches.
Gyfted
Gyfted is a Stanford-connected, remote-first HR-tech company that builds psychometric and cognitive assessments powered by behavioral science and AI. Its free consumer quizzes (Big Five, EQ, DISC, cognitive ability) draw millions of test-takers via organic search, while its B2B software helps founders, recruiters and team leaders screen candidates and hire for role and culture fit. Co-founded in 2020 by CEO Robert Kowalski with a team that includes Stanford GSB psychometrician Michal Kosinski as an adviser, Gyfted has raised roughly $1.3M in early funding.
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.
Robert Kowalski
Robert Kowalski is the co-founder and CEO of Gyfted, a behavioral-science recruiting platform that matches people to jobs and teams on personality, culture fit and ability rather than CVs. A Stanford GSB MBA and LSE economist, he built Gyfted with Stanford computational psychologist Michal Kosinski and engineer Adam Szefer to make remote hiring faster and less biased. He signs his own title 'Village Idiot ie. CEO' and frames the entire recruiting industry as broken and worth flipping over.
Tom Nakata
Tom Nakata (Tomofumi Nakata) is the co-founder and CEO of Qlay, a San Francisco AI startup he built after stints at McKinsey, J.P. Morgan, and Disney and a Harvard statistics degree. Qlay began as a generative-AI consumer-sentiment engine and pivoted into AI-powered interview proctoring - eye-gaze tracking, speech-cadence analysis, and multi-camera monitoring that catches AI-assisted cheating in remote technical interviews. Raised across Singapore, Tokyo, and California, Nakata describes his team as 'a shark that never stops,' chasing authenticity and measurable impact while sourcing engineering talent across Africa, Vietnam, and beyond.
Bolto
Bolto is an AI-native, all-in-one platform that helps fast-growing companies hire, pay, and manage software talent across borders. It pairs expert local recruiters with AI screening to deliver candidate shortlists in days, then handles payroll, onboarding, and compliance in 150+ countries - replacing the patchwork of recruiters, EORs, and payroll tools companies usually stitch together.
CodeSignal
CodeSignal is a San Francisco-based skills platform that uses AI-driven simulations to assess technical and soft-skills talent and to train workers through Cosmo, its conversational AI tutor. Founded in 2015 as CodeFights and rebranded in 2018, it now powers technical hiring and upskilling at companies like Meta, Netflix, Zoom, Robinhood and Capital One.
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.