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Saffron

Helping your company find 10x engineers.

Spring 2026B2B / B2B -> Recruiting and TalentSan Francisco, CA, USA3 employees
SaaS
Human Resources
HR Tech

About

Saffron allows companies to quickly evaluate how well software engineers use AI to code. The way engineers write code has fundamentally changed, but the way companies evaluate them hasn't. Saffron gives teams full visibility into how candidates use AI agents to build, debug, and ship real features on an actual codebase. Saffron was founded by Robert Chondro (formerly MIT and Jane Street), Jerry Yao (Stanford and Jane Street), and Kazuma Choji (Harvey Mudd, published in NeurIPS and ICML), and is backed by Y Combinator (P26) and Afore Capital.

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Founders (3)

Jerry Yao
Founder
Kazuma Choji
Founder
Robert Chondro
Founder / CEO

Details

Status
Active
Stage
Early
Team Size
3
Regions
United States of America, America / Canada
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