HR & recruiting

Standout

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

Overview

Standout gives every talent and company an autonomous agent that represents them, assess the other side, and makes intros when it matters.

Why it matters? Because this is hiring today:

- Talent use AI to apply to 100s of jobs - this is spam.

- Founders/Recruiting send 100s of AI-generated messages to hire the same talent - this is spam.

This has to stop.

Talent stays fully anonymous until they accept an intro. The best way for passively exploring the market and not missing a life changing opportunity.

In 1 month, 10k talent / 60 companies / 100 intros.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Alexis Aftalion

Founder/CEO

Co-Founder & CEO @ Standout. Previously launched Zealy a linear for discord communities. Scaled it to 1.5M MAU and $3M ARR in 12 months.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Witold de La Chapelle

Founder/CRO

Co-Founder & CTO @ Standout Built a jobboard with 100k MAU, ex-Engineer @ Dropbox, Samsara, Chime

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
5team 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 statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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