Refery is the referral hiring infrastructure for VC-backed startups.
The people who build trillion-dollar companies dont come from job boards, agencies, or LinkedIn posts. They come from intros — made by billion-dollar founders, public-company CTOs, fund partners, and operators whove actually built what youre building.
Refery is what happens when you put that referral network behind a single contact point.
For startups (seed to Series B, SF and NY):
Send us a role — a job description, a Notion doc, or a paragraph over email. Within days, a handpicked shortlist arrives, each candidate referred with real context by someone who has hired, shipped, or invested alongside them. No retainer. No exclusivity. 20% placement fee on success only, with a 90-day quality guarantee. We focus on engineering and GTM roles, where the wrong hire costs six months and the right hire defines a chapter.
For partner recruiters and operator scouts:
Refery turns your network into durable income — without the BD, without the agency split, without the one-shot-one-role limitation. 70% of every placement fee is yours. One candidate submission is matched across hundreds of open roles continuously, protected by a 24-month attribution window. Payout inside 14 days of guarantee completion. Zero platform fees, zero clawbacks on completed placements.
Built by operators behind 9- and 10-figure exits who have been the founders desperately hiring a first engineer and the investors watching portfolio companies stall because a single critical seat stayed open for six months. The pattern was obvious across hundreds of companies: the best hires came from operator referrals. The network existed. The infrastructure didnt. Refery is what we built to fix that.
Startups hire at: hello@refery.io
Scouts join at: scouts@refery.io
