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Pyxis Search
Building mission-critical teams for AI, Web3, and frontier-technology companies backed by leading venture capital funds.

Pyxis Search is a recruiting firm focused on building elite teams for high growth transformative emerging technology businesses that are shifting the paradigm

Deep recruiting expertise. Real technical fluency. A true extension of your team.

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what clients say about us

“Pyxis has been an outstanding recruiting partner as we scaled Profound. Stephen and his team deeply understand how to hire both high-caliber engineering talent and strong go-to-market leaders in AI-driven companies. They consistently delivered thoughtful, well-qualified candidates and helped us move quickly without sacrificing quality. Pyxis feels less like a vendor and more like a true extension of our team.”

Dylan Babbs Founder & CEO, Profound

"Stephen is a hustler with a great nose for talent, and helped us fill a critical role. I highly recommend working with him."

Travis Scher Managing Partner, North Island Ventures

"Pyxis has been an amazing partner when it comes to recruiting in the crypto space. Within weeks of starting with Pyxis, we received many extremely high-quality leads, one of which resulted in our Head of Business Development. Pyxis knows their stuff when it comes to recruiting high-quality crypto-native talent."

Matt Katz Co- Founder, Caldera

"Pyxis has been a critical recruiting partner for both ParaFi and our underlying portfolio companies. Stephen has been a trusted advisor on talent decisions, demonstrating the ability to source and vet candidates across a variety of roles."
 

Ben Forman Managing Partner, ParaFi Capital

“The Pyxis team absolutely crushed it helping us find our Head of DeFi. It’s rare to find an agency that listened and understood our needs perfectly and then delivered a shortlist of amazing candidates. We found the perfect fit and couldn't be happier. Stephen and team have become trusted partners to our team for our most difficult searches.”

Mohammed Ahmed Lead Recruiter at Aptos Labs

"We've been incredibly impressed by the quality of candidates Pyxis has been able to connect us with! There is a very small pool of great solidity devs in the world, and Pyxis has clearly figured out how to find them."

Kurt Larsen Co-Founder, Rhinestone

"Pyxis Search Partners have been an instrumental resource for our venture incubator here at Tribe Capital. Their ability to source mid-level and senior leadership across niche industries (like crypto) is hard to find and quite valuable."

Boris Revsin Managing Partner, Tribe Capital

"Steve and Pyxis Search helped Euler Labs enormously in finding top-tier technical talent. Pyxis is the gold standard in Web3 recruiting and we highly recommend them."

Brandon Neal COO of Euler Labs

" I founded Pyxis Search to build the go-to recruitment partner for high-growth companies across the AI, Web3, and frontier technology ecosystems."

Stephen Moskowitz
Founder & CEO

“For us, this means more than just recruiting top talent. Given my background in recruiting, fund management, investments, and capital introductions, I want to provide both entrepreneurs and investment funds access to human capital, financial capital and other key introductions to facilitate the growth of the ecosystems we serve.”

Who we are

Pyxis is a specialist search firm with deep domain expertise across AI, Web3, and frontier technologies.

Pyxis partners with startups and VCs to hire the most cutting edge teams that truly move the needle. We combine deep technical fluency with a white-glove, relationship-driven approach to help founders and executives hire exceptional talent across engineering, product, and GTM.

Our partners include many of the world’s elite early-stage investors.

Our Team

Stephen Moskowitz

Stephen Moskowitz

Founder & Managing Partner

Jesse Zeidaks

Jesse Zeidaks

Principal Talent Partner

Matthew Carson

Matthew Carson

Principal Talent Partner

Liam Flegg

Liam Flegg

Senior Talent Partner

Role Specialization

Pyxis will help startups source talent across:

Engineering

GTM

Product

Decor
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What problem Pyxis solves

Hiring elite AI, Web3, and frontier-technology talent is structurally difficult.

Our approach blends AI-enabled sourcing, deeply curated talent mapping, and rigorous human vetting, allowing us to deliver higher signal, faster execution, and better long-term outcomes than traditional recruiting models.We are highly flexible in how we engage, operating on contingent or partial-retainer structure, and supporting everything from single critical hires to full team builds. Regardless of structure, our focus is consistent: precision, discretion, and results.

Core Values

Integrity

We believe reputation is everything in the industries we serve, and that trust is built slowly, easily lost and not to be taken for granted.

Leave it all on the field mentality

We work tirelessly to achieve stellar results for our clients. We want to back the very best entrepreneurs and hold ourselves to the same high standards with a winning mentality.

There is no “I” in “Team”

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships." (Michael Jordan) Pyxis is a team centric organization that works as a cohesive unit to produce outstanding results for its clients.

Change the Paradigm

Pyxis serves clients changing the paradigm and moving the ball forward across a multitude of industries. To serve these game changing companies well, we will strive to think outside the box and be trend setters in a highly competitive space.

Transparency

At Pyxis Search, transparency and disclosure are fundamental to our business. We strive to ensure that our clients, investors and employees can rely on us to operate in a responsible and ethical manner.

Client Criteria

Stage

We partner with early-stage tech companies of all sizes, from seed-stage, stealth-mode startups to growth stage companies to help build teams that will allow our clients to scale.

Sector

Pyxis builds teams for high-growth AI, Web3, and frontier-technology companies, partnering with founders and investors at the moments where the right hires materially shape company trajectory.

Geography

While Pyxis can perform searches globally, we currently focus on mandates in North America and Europe.

Pyxis Service offering

Pyxis Search is highly flexible on the style of engagement. We can work on a contingent basis or contained exclusive basis for senior roles.

Contingent
Search

A flexible solution for hiring individual contributors leveraging network and relationships. A flexible solution for hiring individual contributors. Pyxis takes a highly consultative approach that leverages an expansive network of active and passive talent, mapping, and deep relationships to quickly hire great candidates.

Contained
Search

A tailored plan to execute a client’s critical leadership searches at the Manager, Director or “Head of” level accomplished by leveraging Pyxis’s deep research capabilities, extensive candidate network, and strong relationships with executives and investors.

Our Search Process

01

Client + Role
Deep Dive

We align on business strategy, product roadmap, technical architecture, and culture to define precise candidate profiles.

02

AI-Enabled Search
Plan + Talent Mapping

We combine AI-assisted sourcing across proprietary data and high-signal external channels with curated outreach and structured screening.

03

Close, Onboard, and Support

We guide the process through offer, acceptance, and onboarding to ensure long-term success.

Join Our Team

Pyxis Search is always on the lookout for talented, tenacious, hardworking search professionals that specialize in placing talent for venture backed startups and are looking for a new and exciting challenge.