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10by10 is a unique marketplace in the recruiting agency industry for…

10by10.io
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
1-10
B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

10x10 (10by10.io) is a YC-backed recruiting marketplace for tech hiring that combines AI matching with a vetted network of human recruiters to source and close candidates for fast-growing companies.

Primary product

AI-assisted recruiting marketplace for tech hiring

Founded

2017

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Team size

1-10

Work style

Remote

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

Recruiting marketplace / talent acquisition

Offices

Mountain View, CA (HQ)
San Francisco, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States

Business model

contingent recruiting
success-fee / placement fee
two-sided recruiting marketplace
AI-assisted sourcing

Funding

Stage

Seed

Total raised

$120K

Latest round

Seed · Aug 2017

Latest amount

$120K

Seed

Aug 2017

$120K

People & investors

Leadership

April Chang

Founder and CEO

Robert Bartruff

Co-Founder

Thomas Kollar

Leadership Team

Jennifer Bacuño

Technical Recruiter Partner

Investors

Elefund
Y Combinator

Work & culture

High-touch, speed-focused, recruiter-and-engineer-led culture that emphasizes human judgment plus AI, quick follow-up, and support throughout the hiring process.

Work style

Remote

Compensation

No public employee salary bands were found. Public compensation signals are candidate-side market compensation data and salary negotiation support; recruiter-side materials cite an average placement fee of about $16k per hire.

Benefits

personal career concierge
market compensation data
salary negotiation support
interview preparation
fast responses
same-week offers
access to hundreds of open reqs
candidate re-matching

Product & market

Pricing

Success-fee recruiting / pay-on-hire; free to use until a hire is made

Differentiators

  • —AI matching plus human recruiters
  • —invite-only and vetted recruiter network
  • —candidate interview rate above 70%
  • —aggregates talent across recruiting agencies
  • —same-day setup
  • —ATS submission support
  • —7-day support
  • —candidate concierge for interview prep and salary negotiation

Technology

Python
C
React
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Redis
Salesforce
Okta
Splunk
Swift
Iterable
Crunchbase

Customers

Flexport
Front
Grammarly
Iterable
Monte Carlo
Niantic
Otter.ai
Plaid
Flock Freight
Panther Labs

Competitors

LinkedIn
Randstad
Quess
Adecco
traditional recruiting agencies
traditional staffing firms

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

about $1.8M-$2.0M annually (public estimates; not company-reported)

support@10by10.io

Latest news

How AI Is Changing Hiring Forever — April Chang, 10x10, ex-PayPal, YC Founder, on the JustPaid Podcast

LinkedIn · Jun 2025

Post promoting April Chang’s podcast appearance on AI’s impact on hiring, with 10x10 positioned as a human-plus-AI recruiting model.

How AI Is Changing Hiring Forever — April Chang (10x10, ex-PayPal, YC Founder) | JustPaid Podcast

YouTube · Jun 2025

Recent interview discussing how AI is changing hiring and recruiting, featuring April Chang of 10x10.

🔥 A recruiter’s accidental “secret email” leak… what founders really want from candidates

LinkedIn · Apr 2025

April Chang discusses founder hiring preferences, candidate expectations, and the tension between hybrid/remote and in-office policies.

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