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.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
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
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Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Pre-Seed · Apr 2024
Latest amount
$500K
Apr 2024 · Y Combinator
Investors
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.
Pricing
Pay-per-intro / bounty-based; users set an intro bounty and pay only when a meeting is scheduled
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$300K-$5M
Estimated monthly visits
312
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
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.
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.