ORIGIN STORY — Priya Sharma, ClearHire In 2022, Priya Sharma had a product ready to launch. All she needed was one backend engineer. Ninety days later, she was still interviewing. The delayed launch cost her startup $40,000 and nearly killed the company. That experience never left her. She watched it happen again at founder meetups — brilliant people with strong products, stuck in a hiring loop built for enterprises, not scrappy startups moving fast. So she built ClearHire. Not another job board. A focused hiring system for startups hiring their first engineering team — where speed and culture fit matter more than keyword-matching algorithms. Today, 200 startups use ClearHire. Average time-to-hire: 11 days. The $40,000 mistake became a $2M company.