Stardex blog · May 2026
Added confidential search controls, shareable client PDFs, webhook support, Chrome extension improvements, GDPR compliance features, and stronger calendar support.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
AI-native ATS + CRM for executive search and recruiting firms. Public sources disagree on the founding year (YC lists 2021; LinkedIn lists 2024), but the operating company behind stardex.com is clearly positioned as a recruiter workflow platform with AI search, CRM, and automation.
Primary product
AI-native ATS + CRM for executive search and recruiting firms
Founded
2021
Headquarters
169 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016
Team size
1-10
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Recruiting software / ATS / CRM
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$2.2M
Latest round
Seed · Feb 2025
Latest amount
$2.1M
Investors
Small, founder-led team that emphasizes high ownership, rapid product iteration, direct access to founders, and customer-driven shipping. The company explicitly says small teams are best for product iteration and that it values high-impact work.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public job listings show roughly $30k-$50k for Full Stack Engineer, $45k-$75k for Customer Success Engineer, $60k-$90k plus 0.10%-0.75% equity for Forward Deploy Engineer, and $70k-$110k for Founding Customer Success Lead.
Pricing
Per-seat monthly subscription with annual billing discount; fully refundable first month instead of a free trial; custom Copilot tier for larger needs.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
≈$171K–$330K estimated annual revenue/ARR (third-party estimates vary)
Estimated monthly visits
38K
Traffic estimate as of May 2026
Stardex blog · May 2026
Added confidential search controls, shareable client PDFs, webhook support, Chrome extension improvements, GDPR compliance features, and stronger calendar support.
Podscan / Digital Recruiter · May 2026
Sanket Chauhan discussed Stardex’s AI-native ATS architecture, dual structured/vector databases, and how the product targets recruiter workflow automation.
Stardex blog · Apr 2026
Reported team growth, a forward-deployed engineer hire, and platform upgrades including improved API/MCP support, placement/fee tracking, automated compensation extraction, and better permissions.
Stardex blog · Jan 2025
Announced the Wharf-to-Stardex rebrand and early product features such as LinkedIn message sync, AI candidate summaries, email integration, and document search.
Stardex blog · Jan 2025
Company launch post describing Stardex as an autonomous ATS + CRM for recruiting firms, with semantic search, AI candidate summaries, auto-tagging, and a large company database.