Hire a Virtual Assistant for Your California Startup
Full-time remote VAs on Pacific Time overlap for SF and LA founders. Calendar, inbox, research, expenses, light ops. From $1,200 per month fully managed.
Why California Founders Hire Virtual Assistants
California hosts roughly one-third of all US venture-funded startups per PitchBook and Crunchbase data. The founders running them sit at the worst end of a specific math problem: their own time is worth hundreds of dollars an hour in fundraising, hiring, and product decisions, but they are still doing their own calendar, inbox, travel, and expenses because every local SF or LA executive assistant runs $75,000 to $110,000 per year. Glassdoor tracks senior EA pay in San Francisco above $95,000, and Google and Apple EA postings regularly clear $130,000. For a Series Seed or Series A founder, that math does not work.
California also carries employment complexity that makes hiring a W-2 EA more than a salary decision. AB5 limits contractor use, SB 553 requires a workplace violence prevention plan, and CalSavers pushes a retirement mandate. Most founders we work with do not want to set up HR for a single admin hire. A Teckas VA is a full-time employee of Teckas in India, works your Pacific Time overlap, and costs from $1,200 per month all-in.
BLS May 2023 data shows the national median for executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants at $67,510, with California metros trending 30 to 50 percent above that median.
What Your California VA Will Do
- Calendar triage, scheduling, and meeting prep in Google Calendar or Outlook
- Inbox triage, priority flagging, drafted replies
- Travel booking (flights, hotels, ground transport) via TravelPerk or direct
- Expense categorization in Ramp, Brex, or Divvy
- Investor research, warm-intro tracking, and CRM updates in HubSpot or Pipedrive
- Vendor onboarding, NDA chasing, document signing in DocuSign or PandaDoc
- Light deck and doc work in Google Slides, Notion, and Figma
Tools They Know
- Productivity - Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Notion, Slack, Superhuman
- CRM - HubSpot, Pipedrive, Affinity, Attio
- Finance - Ramp, Brex, Divvy, Expensify
- Scheduling - Calendly, SavvyCal, Motion
Cost: California Local vs Teckas
| SF / LA Local | Teckas Remote | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly (loaded) | $7,500 - $12,000 | From $1,200 |
| AB5 risk | Yes (contractor) | No |
| Ramp | 4 - 8 weeks | 2 weeks |
How to Hire
- Discovery call. Share your calendar style, tool stack, and priorities.
- Shortlist. 3 to 5 VAs with founder support experience.
- Onboard. Two weeks of shadowing and your VA runs your day.
Get 10+ Hours Back Per Week
One Teckas VA covers what most SF founders pay $95K for locally.
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