HR & recruiting

Prism

Website
Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Prism is an AI-native recruiting agency. We use software and agents to find companies better people faster.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Grappl, HireGlide

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Theo Kitsberg

Founder/CEO

Academic scholar at Cambridge before dropping out and published in CHI '26 for work at MIT's Media Lab and the Cambridge Computer Science Faculty. Now building Prism, where agents find and engage the best talent using our in-house, world-leading people search tool. Ran recruiting and training for a mental health helpline whilst at Cambridge.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Axel La Pira

Founder/CTO

Prev. Computer Science and Philosophy at Oxford (placed second in oxford cohort) CEO founder Associate @ Alan, now building Prism, your AI recruiting agency

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
3team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthenriched profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedLondon, England, United Kingdom
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Operating · 4 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

The company website explicitly reports customer or user adoption. This is a source-based assessment of a company claim; scale and revenue are not independently verified.

Company website: home Checked 2026-10-25

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Maturity is an evidence-based assessment, not a success rating. It may understate the current stage where evidence is limited. Coverage records documented areas, not a complete or independently audited company history.

Stage definitions
independent websitesource corroborationreachable websitedescriptive evidenceclassified market and modelsourced peoplesourced founding yearpricing page observed