--- title: 'Ex-YC Founder at Fleek' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/ex-yc-founder-fleek-london-tp06rd2932sv' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Ex-YC Founder at Fleek - **Company:** Fleek - **Location:** London, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-05-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fleek/77aad5e8-6483-40af-83b4-1cff3a079c9f ## Job description Reality check: Something didn't work out? We get it. We're looking for founders who still have that fire and want to join something that's still early but some things are already working. Opportunity: We serve thousands of resellers and retailers across the UK, Europe, and the US. With the secondhand fashion market projected to reach $350B by 2027, Fleek is building the AI-native operational and financial backbone for secondhand commerce globally. We've raised over $50M from a16z, Y Combinator, Burda Principal Investments, HV Capital, and others, and have recently closed our Series B. Our advisors and private investors include operators behind Depop, Shopify, and Postmates. We are expecting that you: - Ran a YC company (obviously) - Know what worked and what didn't - Still want to build something massive - Care about applying AI for good for this world - Can wear multiple hats - Understand both technical and business sides We're hosting our first-ever hackathon in partnership with Andreessen Horowitz https://www.linkedin.com/company/a16z/! On Saturday, 11th July, we're opening the Fleek HQ doors in London for a one-day sprint to build the AI that makes circular fashion operate at scale. RSVP HERE: https://luma.com/usntwjdw ## About Fleek ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Fleek is an AI-native marketplace connecting vintage and second-hand clothing wholesalers with resellers and retailers globally, using proprietary computer vision to grade, price, and catalogue inventory automatically. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (Shoreditch) - **Founded**: November 2021 - **Founders**: Abhi Arora (CEO & Co-founder) and Sanket Agarwal (CTO & Co-founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Technology, Information and Internet; Circular Economy; Fashion - **Target customers**: B2B — vintage wholesalers (suppliers) and resellers/retail stores (buyers) across the US, Europe, Australia, Japan, and beyond - **Mission/purpose statement**: Building the AI-native infrastructure for the circular economy; making second-hand the first choice by powering a transparent, scalable wholesale marketplace for vintage fashion. ## Products & Services - **Fleek Marketplace**: A B2B platform connecting wholesale secondhand fashion suppliers with buyers globally. Buyers use natural language search over AI-graded inventory to source stock at scale. - **AI Grading & Sorting Engine**: Proprietary computer vision model trained on the world’s largest secondhand fashion dataset. In ~6 seconds, it grades, prices, and catalogues an item from a single photo with 82% accuracy. The model improves with every transaction on the platform. - **Automated QC & Merchandising**: Every item is priced and merchandised automatically using real-time transaction data, enabling buyers to purchase with full confidence in quality and condition. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: $21M total funding across 4 rounds (as per LinkedIn) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (W22 batch), Andreessen Horowitz (Seed), HV Capital (led Series A), Future Fifty (non-equity assistance). Also backed by other leading Silicon Valley VCs. - **Growth Signals**: - 129 employees (monthly headcount growth of +1.1%) - 9 million items saved from landfill since 2022 - Processes ~100 tonnes per month - 17,400t CO₂ avoided, 10.8B L water saved, 35M kWh energy saved since founding - Operates in 9 countries including Pakistan, India, United States, Germany, and United Arab Emirates - Customers across the US, Australia, Japan, and Europe; suppliers in Pakistan, India, and Africa ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary AI dataset**: Trained on the world’s largest secondhand fashion dataset, creating a data moat that grows with every transaction. No other marketplace has equivalent AI-graded inventory at scale. - **Trust through automation**: AI-generated grades mean buyers can purchase sight-unseen with confidence — a critical trust layer that the offline, fragmented wholesale market lacks. - **Full-stack marketplace**: Fleek controls the technology (AI grading), the supply (wholesaler onboarding), and the transaction platform — a rare vertical integration in vintage wholesale. - **Global supply chain re-engineering**: Enables local sorting and grading, reducing the environmentally costly double-shipping from charities to sorting hubs in South Asia and back to Western markets. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling the infrastructure layer**: Building the foundational marketplace for a $250B wholesale secondhand industry that currently runs on WhatsApp and offline relationships. - **Agentic sourcing & AI expansion**: Pushing toward natural-language, AI-powered product discovery for buyers and expanding automation across quality control, pricing, and logistics. - **Geographic growth**: Deepening presence in existing markets (US, Japan, Europe) while strengthening supply roots in Pakistan, India, and Africa. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven work**: Fashion is the third most polluting industry globally; Fleek positions itself as a direct solution to textile waste. Employees see tangible impact (items saved from landfill, CO₂ avoided). - **AI-first engineering culture**: The company builds real AI products (computer vision, LLMs fine-tuned on fashion) and expects all team members to use AI daily. Every candidate gets free Claude Code for the interview process. - **Global, fast-moving environment**: Team spans London, Pakistan, India, US, and Germany. Employees touch a genuinely global supply chain from day one. - **Work pattern**: In-office 3–4 days a week (Shoreditch, London); one day for deep work at home. The office is described as high-energy, collaborative, with quick decision-making. - **Culture**: Non-hierarchical, high-ownership, execution-focused. Values include “Absolute Ownership,” “Curiosity Leads the Way,” “Dream Big and Disrupt Yourself,” and “Talk to the Customer.” - **Growth trajectory**: Small, fast-moving team (~129 people) means outsized impact and evolving roles. The company emphasizes that “your role will look different in 6 months” and seeks people energised by change. ## Sources 1. [joinfleek.com - Careers page](https://www.joinfleek.com/careers) 2. [LinkedIn - Fleek](https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinfleek) 3. [joinfleek.com - Team & Story](https://www.joinfleek.com/pages/team) 4. 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