Paddy Lambros

Paddy Lambros (Dex): $5.3M Seed for the Candidate-Side Recruiting Agent

Paddy Lambros unveils Dex's $5.3M seed led by Notion Capital alongside a16z Speedrun and angels, and lays out the thesis: an agent working for the candidate, onboarding software engineers conversationally and narrowing their options to a few right-fit live roles. He says platform salaries more than doubled in a year — from ~£100k up to £1M for IC engineers — as the SF-London pay arbitrage closes, with 60+ tier-one clients and strict selectivity on both sides of the marketplace. He rules out non-engineering verticals for now, names boutique tech recruitment firms rather than exec search as the real competition, and frames the long-term ambition as building a market maker for labor, the world's largest market.

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