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PartnerHQ

Winter 2024 · Active

A marketplace for B2B businesses to buy warm intros.

Founded: 2024

Team size: 4

About

PartnerHQ is building the next generation LinkedIn. We are creating the world’s most valuable and accurate professional network graph by capturing and indexing vast quantities of relationship signals. Individuals use PartnerHQ to grow and monetize their networks. B2B companies use PartnerHQ to buy warm intros and drive high-value sales. PartnerHQ was created during Y Combinator’s W24 cohort and launched in February of 2024. Since launch we have signed on hundreds of paying companies, domestic and international. 97% of all users have come inbound or word-of-mouth.

Founders

  • Kat WangFounder

    Kat was employee #4 at UVS Games, a marketplace startup she helped take from $500k to $20M in 1 year (40x growth). She built and managed the product, engineering, and design teams. Before UVS Games she spent 4 years at Affinity (CRM used by 40% of VCs), where she helped build the relationship intelligence and warm intro tool. Kat knows warm intros and marketplaces.

  • Stan LiuFounder

    Stan was the founding engineer at Notable Health ($120M raised).