Ali Mir is Co-Founder of HiringCafe, an AI-powered agentic job discovery platform built to surface the hidden majority of open roles that legacy job boards never show.

In 2022, Ali left his tech career, where he held roles at Meta, Rippling, and DoorDash, to pursue HR startup ideas and solve a problem he saw firsthand during the wave of tech layoffs.

When friends were laid off from major tech companies, Ali built a curated spreadsheet of 10,000 hard-to-find startup jobs that went repeatedly viral on social media, racking up millions of views and proving massive demand for a better job search tool.

That viral momentum attracted Stanford PhD candidate Hamed Nilforoshan as co-founder, and together they evolved HiringCafe into a full AI-powered search engine, raising $6.8M in pre-seed funding led by Spark Capital, with participation from angels at ZipRecruiter and Indeed.

HiringCafe has grown entirely through word-of-mouth to over 2 million monthly active users and 5.7 million active job listings, with its free AI Talent Agent now helping job seekers discover the 60-80% of open roles buried beyond traditional job boards.