About Jellyfish

Built by founders who have lived the hiring problem.

Jellyfish helps startups find technical talent by evaluating real work, not just resumes.

Symion, CEO

Recruiting lived from the inside.

Symion is an ex-Technical PM at Viggle AI, an a16z-backed company, where he led product at scale for millions of users. He has deep hands-on recruiting experience and understands technical hiring from the inside.

Jad, CTO

Technical depth and product taste.

Jad is an ex-Software Engineer at Shopify who built Discord apps for millions of users. Before Jellyfish, he also helped build an AI screening platform for recruiters.

Why we built it

We got pulled into recruiting by founders who needed help.

Founder friends asked us to help hire, so we spent months recruiting manually with modern tools and saw the same issue again and again.

The bottleneck was not simply finding more candidates. It was knowing who was actually strong, who fit the company, and who deserved scarce interview time.

How we think

Recruiting should search deeper and judge more carefully.

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Real work beats keyword matches

Great technical candidates often show up through GitHub repos, projects, hackathons, research, public posts, and the judgment behind what they chose to build.

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Fit is specific

A strong candidate for one startup can be wrong for another. We evaluate against the role, product, team, and stage instead of treating recruiting like a generic database search.

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Evaluation matters more than volume

Hiring teams do not need more profiles. They need better judgment on who is actually strong, reachable, and worth spending interview time on.

Work with us

Send us your hardest role.

We will look at the role, the company, and the real signals that usually get missed by ordinary search.