HireTop · May 2024
Independent article summarizing PartnerHQ’s warm-intro marketplace, founders Kat Wang and Stan Liu, and its focus on replacing cold outbound with referral-driven sales.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
PartnerHQ is a Y Combinator W24 marketplace for B2B warm introductions: companies set a bounty for an intro to an ideal buyer, and pay only when a meeting is scheduled. It also lets people with large networks monetize introductions. Public sources place the company in San Francisco with a small team and hundreds of paying companies since launch.
Primary product
Marketplace for buying and selling B2B warm intros
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
B2B warm-intro marketplace
Business model
B2B marketplace
success-based / pay-per-meeting fees
network monetization platform
Funding
Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Pre-Seed · Apr 2024
Latest amount
$500K
Apr 2024 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
Public sources emphasize customer conversations, relationship-driven sales, and word-of-mouth growth; no formal culture or benefits page was found.
Compensation
Public compensation signals are bounty-based rather than employee-salary data: the platform says intro providers earn an average of about $500 per scheduled intro. No public employee compensation bands were found.
Product & market
Pricing
Pay-per-intro / bounty-based; users set an intro bounty and pay only when a meeting is scheduled
Differentiators
- —Warm-intro marketplace instead of cold outbound
- —Pay only when a meeting is scheduled
- —Average bounty around $500 per intro
- —Uses relationship signals to power a professional network graph
- —Enables individuals to monetize their networks
- —Inbound and word-of-mouth acquisition is emphasized publicly
Technology
Next.js
PostHog
Customers
B2B companies buying warm introductions
Sales teams selling to decision-makers through referrals
Companies using partner-led or relationship-led sales
Competitors
Pitchit
Village
Buckfifty
CIENCE
ZoomInfo
Apollo
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$300K-$5M
Estimated monthly visits
312
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
LinkedIn · Mar 2024
Kat Wang announced the public launch of PartnerHQ and said the product helps B2B founders buy warm intros; the post referenced early customer examples such as Airbnb, Mapbox, and Square recruiting teams.
CB Insights · Jan 2024
CB Insights lists PartnerHQ’s funding as $500K and identifies investors including Y Combinator, Eight Capital Group, Rebel Fund, and Maiora Ventures.
Y Combinator
YC launch post describing PartnerHQ as a marketplace for B2B businesses to buy warm intros, with a bounty-based model and a mission to help companies sell more through warm introductions.
Y Combinator
YC company page says PartnerHQ launched in February 2024, is based in San Francisco, and had hundreds of paying companies using the platform.
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