Taylor Berghane

Denver, CO, USA

  1. People
  2. Founder
  3. Director of People Operations
  4. SaaS
  5. Head of Talent
  6. Advisor

Ex-Founder & YC Founding Recruiter

Founding Recruiter at Sully.ai (YC S21), scaled 5 to 60 in 12 months. 20+ Engineers, Engineering + GTM Leaders, built sales team from 0. 30% reduction in time to hire with a 15 day average.


Ex-founder, SaaS Recruitment Automation Platform - scaled to $2M in revenue in 16 months


Deep experience with working with founders and leadership, building recruiting engines + talent pipelines from zero.

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Work

  • Github

    Github

    Always building. GitHub is where tberghane builds software.

    github.com
  • Waldo Labs | Automating Hiring for Companies

    Waldo Labs | Automating Hiring for Companies

    Built and scaled a SaaS recruitment automation platform to $2M in revenue in two years.


    Automating hiring while saving companies 327% more time. Clients include Alfred, Ethena, NexHealth, Welcome, Courier Health, Cents, Climate Club, Smalls, Fabric8 Labs, Uno Health, Dia & Co.

    heywaldo.io

  • Hive Five - Hire Better. Hire Faster. Hire Smarter.

    HiveFive is a data powered referral software platform, relationship leveraging outbound tool, and on-site “white glove” talent service...


    Hired 40+ across engineering/product/design advising Splice, working closely with their leadership team.


    Metrics:

    Onsite to Hire - Improved from 6:1 to 1.8:1

    Time to Hire - Improved from 50 days to 36 Days


    Built technical teams for: Care/of, Rent the Runway, ActionIQ, Parsley Health and 30+ other startups


    hivefive.ai

Experience

  • Sully.ai

    Sully.ai

    Founding Recruiter/Head of Recruiting

    Sep 2024 - Apr 2026

    • Scaled 5 to 60 in 12 months from Seed through Series A
    • Built recruiting engine from scratch, 15 day average time to hire
    • Built internal recruiting tooling + automations from scratch
    • Led Ashby implementation from scratch
  • Waldo Labs

    Waldo Labs

    Founder and Chief Executive Officer

    Jan 2020 - Sep 2023

    Automating hiring while saving companies 327% more time. Clients include Alfred, Ethena, NexHealth, Welcome, Courier Health, Cents, Climate Club, Smalls, Fabric8 Labs, Uno Health, Dia & Co.

    • Helped 50+ startups scale their technical and non-technical teams. Grew bootstrapped to $2M in revenue in two years.

  • Hivefive.ai

    Hire #1 - Talent and Product Innovation

    Dec 2018 - Dec 2020

    HiveFive is a data powered referral and inbound application automation platform.

    • Hire #1. Advised 20+ startups as a fractional Head of Talent on everything around their hiring process, interview strategy and candidate experience. Worked internally with the Founder and CTO to build our Referral Automation Platform.
    • Worked with: Rent the Runway, Splice, ActionIQ, Care/of
    • 40+ Hires in 5 months at Splice. 1.8:1 Onsite to Hire Ratio
  • Pine Outfitters

    Pine Outfitters

    Chief Product Officer

    Aug 2017 - Aug 2019

    "Embrace the Wild Side" Visit us at www.pineoutfitters.shop

    • Managed all of the product and material sourcing, go to market and supply chains
  • Singlesprout

    Singlesprout

    Technical Recruiter

    Aug 2014 - Jul 2015

    SingleSprout builds technology-driven teams that solve some of the world’s most challenging problems.

    • Made 55 hires in two years, acquired 10 new clients for SingleSprout at the same time.