Tracxn described Sourceress as a deadpooled company and listed no investments or acquisitions.
SourceSourceress is an AI recruiter that is reinventing how people find jobs. With tailor-made machine learning models, we rigorously define what a company is looking for in a role, identify great candidates, and engage candidates with highly personalized introductions. Our process creates a stream of int
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Updated Jul 30, 2026
Sourceress was a San Francisco-based AI recruiting/sourcing company that used tailored machine-learning models to define role requirements, identify passive candidates, and engage them with personalized outreach. Public sources conflict on founding year (2016 on LinkedIn/company data vs. 2017 on Y Combinator), and third-party profiles later describe the company as deadpooled/inactive.
Primary product
AI-powered recruiting / candidate sourcing platform
Founded
2016
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI recruiting / HR tech
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Offices
Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$3.5M
Latest round
Seed · Nov 2017
Latest amount
$3.5M
Nov 2017 · Lightspeed Venture Partners
Investors
Mission-driven recruiting startup centered on helping people find work that matters, with an emphasis on personalized outreach, fast follow-up, and a team with ML and engineering backgrounds.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public YC job postings showed salary ranges of about $140K-$350K for machine-learning roles and $170K-$350K for infrastructure/founding product roles; no public benefits package was found.
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; appears to have been sold as a demo-led, enterprise/B2B recruiting product.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
under $1M (reported around $600K)
Tracxn described Sourceress as a deadpooled company and listed no investments or acquisitions.
SourceA Forbes profile on the founders’ later company, Imbue, referred to Sourceress as one of their now-defunct startups and noted that Sourceress stopped growing fast enough before they moved on.
SourceForbes · Sep 2023
Mentioned that Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht had launched two now-defunct startups, including Sourceress, before focusing on Imbue.
Tracxn · Aug 2021
Described Sourceress as deadpooled, summarized its HR-tech product, and listed funding, investors, customers, and competitors.
FinSMEs · Nov 2017
Summarized the same seed round and named backers including Lightspeed Venture Partners, OpenAI researchers, Y Combinator, and Dropbox co-founders.
TechCrunch · Nov 2017
Reported Sourceress’s $3.5M seed financing and explained its machine-learning approach to understanding hiring-manager requirements and surfacing suitable candidates.