For independent recruiters

You've built the teams behind the next unicorns.IPOs.breakthroughs.

Keep 70% of every fee. One vetted candidate, matched across 200+ tier-1 startups for 24 months. No agency cut. No one-shot, one-role.

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70%
of every fee
200+
tier-1 startups hiring
$0
platform cost
24mo
attribution lock
70% of Every FeeYC · Sequoia · a16z BackedNo Agency Cut$49K Per Placement24-Month AttributionOne Candidate · Every RoleTalent Committee VettedPayout in 14 Days
70% of Every FeeYC · Sequoia · a16z BackedNo Agency Cut$49K Per Placement24-Month AttributionOne Candidate · Every RoleTalent Committee VettedPayout in 14 Days
The trap

You did the work. Someone else got paid.

The agency model takes 30 to 50 percent of your billing. The freelance grind caps you at one company per candidate. Refery rewires both.

The agency tax

Most agencies keep 30 to 50 percent of every fee. You sourced, screened, closed. You see a fraction.

One shot, one role

You source someone perfect. Wrong company, wrong moment. They drop out of your pipeline forever.

The contract trap

Annual retainers, exclusivity clauses, pipeline reviews. In-house recruiter without the equity.

The economics

One placement. $49,000.

Placement fees average 15 to 20 percent of first-year base. You keep 70 percent. No tiering, no caps.

$49,000
per placement.
20% fee on a $350K senior hire · your 70% share
$196K
1 / QUARTER
$588K
1 / MONTH
$1.18M
2 / MONTH
$2.35M
4 / MONTH
Annual earnings · upper-range example · $49K per placement
The companies

Where your candidates actually end up.

VC-backed startups, pre-seed through Series B. Most within 12 months of their last raise. The companies your placements will brag about working at in five years.

Backed by
Y CombinatorSequoiaAndreessen HorowitzFounders FundIndex VenturesGeneral CatalystLightspeedGreylockTiger GlobalKhoslaBessemerBenchmarkAccelKleiner PerkinsNEA
Stage
Pre-seed → Series B
highest-growth window
Capital
$5M to $200M
most raised in last 12mo
Geography
SF · NY · LDN
~80% Bay Area
Founders
Tier-1 only
Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic
What we hire for

Roles your desk already covers.

50 to 100 active roles at any moment. 5 to 15 new ones each week.

🔥 Highest demand
🔥 AI/ML Engineer🔥 Forward Deploying Engineer🔥 Staff/Senior SWE🔥 Founding Engineer🔥 Backend🔥 Frontend🔥 Infrastructure🔥 Security🔥 Data Engineer
Product & Design
Product ManagerProduct DesignerHead of Product
🔥 GTM & Revenue
🔥 Head of GTM🔥 Founding GTMEnterprise AEAccount DirectorPMMHead of Growth

🌷 ~80% SF, rest split NY and London.

How it works

Submit. Match. Get paid.

01
Anytime

Submit one candidate

Resume, your verdict, contact info. Submission timestamps your 24-month attribution immediately.

02
Within 48h

Talent Committee vets

A real investor or operator vets in 25 to 30 minutes. Vetted candidates get significantly higher interview rates than cold submissions.

03
Real-time

Matched across every fit role

One candidate, every relevant role on the platform, simultaneously. No one-shot one-role.

04
On placement

Payout in 14 days

70% of the placement fee, after the 90-day guarantee. Bank transfer for US, Wise for international.

Q&A

Every question, answered.

Economics

How it works

About Refery

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