Recruiting Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2025

November 2025

Browse 57 of the top Recruiting startups funded by Y Combinator.

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  • Ashby
    Ashby
    Y Combinator LogoW2019
    Active • 110 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    At Ashby, we're improving the productivity of working professionals with intelligent and powerful software. We put a lot of effort into designing products that are approachable to beginners but mastered & extended by power users. In many ways, spreadsheets set the bar here. Our first products provide talent teams with clever automation, powerful analytics tools, and customizable workflows packaged in great UX. We have many paying customers who love us and use us every day like Opendoor, Airtable, Duolingo, and Notion. Notion's Head of Talent said Ashby is "probably the tool we are in the most and rely on the most, as a recruiting team." Our culture is motivated by Abhik's (my co-founder and Head of Engineering) and my belief that a small talented team, given the right environment, can build a great product and service fast (and work regular hours!). We hire exceptional, kind, thoughtful people and provide an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work. We are well funded and backed by great investors, including Y Combinator, Elad Gil, and Lachy Groom. We'll share more once we meet!
    recruiting
    human-resources
    b2b
  • Recurse Center
    Recurse Center
    Y Combinator LogoS2010
    Active • 7 employees • New York, NY, USA
    The Recurse Center is a self-directed, educational retreat for people who want to get better at programming, whether they've been programming for three decades or three months. The retreat is free for all participants because we run an integrated recruiting agency and provide (optional) personalized recruiting services to anyone in our community considering a new job.
    recruiting
    community
    education
  • HackerRank
    HackerRank
    Y Combinator LogoS2011
    Active • 300 employees • Mountain View, CA, USA
    At HackerRank, our mission is to change the world to value skills over pedigree. Thousands of companies use our AI-powered platform to hire next-gen developers based on what they can do - not just what’s on their resume. From hiring to upskilling, we help teams identify and grow technical talent at every stage of the developer journey. Over 26 million developers have joined the HackerRank Community to learn and certify their skills, practice interviewing, and discover relevant jobs.
    developer-tools
    recruiting
  • Hiration
    Hiration
    Y Combinator LogoW2020
    Active • 22 employees • New Delhi, Delhi, India
    Our SaaS product solves the different problems that job seekers face in the process of finding a new job - creating an efficient resume, writing a cover letter/email, updating their LinkedIn profile, applying to suitable jobs, interview preparation... It's the 1st time in history that we've been able to create resumes using technology that surpass human made resumes. This is a novel way to add active job seekers to our database of resumes as none of the incumbents are focussing on candidates' problems. 100k+ new active job seekers are added to our database every month, growing rapidly. As the next step, we are launching a recruitment marketplace to close the loop.
    recruiting
    marketplace
    saas
  • Serra
    Serra
    Y Combinator LogoS2023
    Active • 8 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Serra is an AI recruiter that fully automates candidate sourcing and outreach, finding ideal talent from LinkedIn, GitHub, Crunchbase, and your ATS. Companies hiring Serra skip sourcing entirely and simply get qualified interviews on their calendar.
    recruiting
    enterprise-software
    ai-assistant
    hr-tech
    artificial-intelligence
  • 10 By 10
    10 By 10
    Y Combinator LogoS2017
    Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    10by10 is a marketplace to instantly match qualified candidates with companies by pooling candidates across recruitment agencies. Check out the testimonials on our website (www.10by10.io).
    marketplace
    artificial-intelligence
    recruiting
  • Dover
    Dover
    Y Combinator LogoS2019
    Active • 25 employees • New York, NY, USA
    Dover is on a mission to help every company build an amazing team. Every founder and business leader should have the tools and support they need to hire the right talent — fast. Dover combines powerful free software with flexible recruiting services to help startups and growing companies scale efficiently. Dover is built around two core offerings: Free Recruiting Tools: Dover's ATS is a lightweight but powerful applicant tracking system built for busy founders and hiring managers. It’s as easy to use as a spreadsheet but includes everything you need to manage your first 100 hires — without the bloat of traditional ATS platforms. Hundreds of companies use Dover’s free tools to streamline their hiring process and stay in control as they grow. Recruiting Partner Marketplace: When companies need help, Dover connects them with top-tier, fractional recruiters through our on-demand marketplace. Recruiting Partners are experienced, startup-savvy professionals who can step in quickly to manage sourcing, interviewing, closing, and more — without the cost or commitment of an agency or full-time hire. Dover went through Y Combinator in 2019, and today 500+ companies use our product to run a better hiring process. We've raised $23M from top VCs.
    recruiting
    b2b
  • Tweeks.io
    Tweeks.io
    Y Combinator LogoW2025
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    NextByte’s AI recruiter helps you identify top candidates faster, so your team can focus on what matters – building your product and hiring the best talent. Our platform understands the requirements for each role and tailors voice-driven technical and non-technical evaluations to surface candidates who are ready for your next onsite interview. NextByte can screen hundreds of candidates simultaneously and provides rubric-based, detailed evaluations in minutes. Our analytics dashboards provide a clear view of technical ability, problem-solving skills, and communication under pressure across your candidate pool, so you can confidently move the right candidates forward. With NextByte, hiring teams save time, reduce bias, and make faster, data-driven hiring decisions without sacrificing quality.
    ai
    b2b
    conversational-ai
    recruiting
    saas
  • Extern
    Extern
    Y Combinator LogoW2017
    Active • 30 employees • New York, NY, USA
    At Extern, we’re solving the experience gap. Extern created the remote Externship, a skill-building work experience that is easier for students to access, and easier for companies to run, than an internship. Our mission is to help anyone discover and launch their career through professional experiences available anywhere at any time. Since 2020, we’ve created and powered Externships for over 50,000 students on behalf of companies from Fortune 500s to startups. After spending $100K on average for a 4-year degree, graduates find that almost 40% of entry level jobs on Linkedin required 3+ years of work experience. Internships are how many college students get this kind of experience, but the demand for good internships outstrips the supply. Internship programs are difficult to scale, they favor students who already have social capital, and they’re time-consuming for employers to run. Externships are short, online, project-based work experiences that employers can offer to hundreds of students using less resource and employee time than it would take to support an intern. Extern makes the complex process of running an Externship completely turnkey with software and industry experts which in turn makes professional experience more accessible to more students. By making work experience more accessible, Extern is driving the rapid mobility and upskilling needed for a new economy. We envision a world where anyone can access work experience as a form of education – no matter their background, experience, or socio-economic status. Come join our movement to reshape work, education, and credentialing for future generations with the Externship. Extern was born out of a pivot from Paragon One (W17) which initially focused on providing students with a career center-as-a-service platform, connecting them with industry professionals to receive career coaching and guidance. Backed by Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, Launch Fund, University Ventures, and Learn Capital.
    education
    recruiting
    elearning
    remote-work
    marketplace
  • Awesomic
    Awesomic
    Y Combinator LogoS2021
    Active • 150 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Awesomic matches companies with top & vetted product talents in 24 hours. Find your designers, engineers or no-coders in a few clicks. They deliver you results through our app, every 24 business hours guaranteed, for a flat monthly subscription. Successfully matched 4000+ companies, including 400+ YC startups, with their talents who completed over 14 000 projects in the app. Book a live demo here: https://www.awesomic.com/demo Portfolio – https://www.awesomic.com/portfolio Cases – https://www.awesomic.com/case-study
    b2b
    marketplace
    recruiting
    design
    web-development
  • Contrario
    Contrario
    Y Combinator LogoW2025
    Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Contrario is a managed hiring network helping growth-stage startups and enterprises fill hard roles fast. We fill critical roles faster with AI-powered expert recruiters who deliver high-signal candidates quickly. Unlike a typical marketplace, Contrario white-glove delivers top candidates by pairing proprietary AI models with recruiter workflows to filter noise and surface only the best-fit talent.
    recruiting
    saas
    artificial-intelligence
  • Bolto
    Bolto
    Y Combinator LogoS2023
    Active • 6 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    AI-powered recruiting and HR platform. Find and hire the best pre-vetted global software talent and simplify onboarding, payroll, and compliance.
    hr-tech
    recruiting
    artificial-intelligence
  • Gem
    Gem
    Y Combinator LogoS2017
    Active • 200 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Gem’s talent engagement platform helps recruiting teams use data and automation to improve hiring speed, quality, and diversity. Gem unifies data and context from the tools recruiters use every day, including email, applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn, and other social networks, to create a source of truth for all talent relationships. Armed with insights about the entire recruiting process, automation to reach out to talent at scale, and true cross-functional collaboration tools, TA teams can proactively and strategically plan for what’s ahead. Gem's customers are savvy recruiting teams from industry-leading companies — like Wayfair, Dropbox, Nasdaq, Cisco, and Doordash — who understand that hiring the best talent in the market is key to maintaining their competitive advantage.
    b2b
    saas
    recruiting
  • Candidate.ly
    Candidate.ly
    Y Combinator LogoS2017
    Active • 9 employees • New York, NY, USA
    Candidately simplifies the process of sharing candidate resumes between staffing firms and their clients. Instead of relying on email attachments, Candidately offers a collaborative space where staffing firms can submit their top candidates, receive prompt client feedback, track client activity on candidate profiles, and increase the number of successful placements.
    saas
    recruiting
    hr-tech
    b2b
  • peopleCQ
    peopleCQ
    Y Combinator LogoW2021
    Active • 85 employees • Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
    NowPay, a FinTech startup founded by ex-employees of IBM, Microsoft, Orange and Amazon, is building a financial-wellness platform for employees in emerging markets. Saving, spending, budgeting and borrowing. Those are the 4 pillars of financial-wellness. NowPay aims to improve every aspect of those for employees by building products that tackle every vertical. NowPay enables employees to get their salaries in advance at any point in time during the month and also pay their bills instantly. NowPay is backed by 500 Startups, Beco Capital, Endure, Plug and Play, MSA Capital, 4dx, Foundation Ventures, EFG and Beltone and has raised 3.7m USD so far.
    recruiting
    hr-tech
  • Emi Labs
    Emi Labs
    Y Combinator LogoW2019
    Active • 50 employees • Buenos Aires, Argentina
    At Emi Labs (YC '19) we are on a mission to increase frontline workers' access to professional opportunities by building the infrastructure for Frontline Workers (check our manifesto here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/our-manifesto-building-infrastructure-frontline-workers-emi-labs/). As our first step, we are transforming the high-volume recruiting process of Frontline Workers to make it as simple, human, and fair as possible for both Candidates and Recruiters. Our product is a SaaS recruitment platform powered by AI that helps companies engage with candidates via text to drive faster and more efficient hiring processes. We are growing fast, well funded, and obsessed with making our mission a reality. Some of their customers include Walmart, Burger King, Starbucks, 7-Eleven, Danone, Imperfect Foods, and Heineken.
    recruiting
  • VoiceOS
    VoiceOS
    Y Combinator LogoX2025
    Active • 4 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Hiring at scale is broken. Our solution: Voice AI that instantly interview every applicant — holds lifelike interviews tailored to each applicant's unique background. Recruiters see only a curated shortlist as VoiceOS fine-tunes the questions over time. The payoff: days-to-hire instead of weeks, slashed overhead, and a recruiting engine that scales as fast as the enterprise. VoiceOS is setting a new standard for hiring excellence.
    aiops
    recruiting
    enterprise
    human-resources
    operations
  • Alex
    Alex
    Y Combinator LogoW2024
    Active • 22 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Alex is an AI recruiter for the future of hiring. Companies use us to get the best hiring signal on their applicant pool and hire in a fraction of the time. Our AI recruiter has a live conversation over a video call with each of your candidates based on the interview questions you choose or that are recommended based on the job description. During the interview, our AI asks personalized follow-up questions in real-time based on the candidate's responses. Our AI recruiter can be customized to your roles in minutes and has already conducted thousands of interviews across engineering, IT, retail, hospitality, and more.
    saas
    recruiting
    hr-tech
    b2b
    ai
  • Humanly
    Humanly
    Y Combinator LogoW2020
    Active • 30 employees • Bellevue, WA, USA
    Our mission is to empower the world’s hiring teams to grow engaged, high-performing organizations - by delivering human connection at scale through innovative technology, commitment, and fairness. High-volume hiring is extremely broken - it is inefficient, ineffective, and biased. Our mission is to fix what is broken. We believe great hiring processes are centered around quality conversations between candidates and employers and a future where every candidate’s journey starts with a conversation - a future where candidates are considered without bias or archaic artifacts like resumes and cover letters.
    recruiting
    hr-tech
  • Howdy.com
    Howdy.com
    Y Combinator LogoW2021
    Active • 300 employees • Austin, TX, USA
    Why Howdy.com? Howdy was founded in 2018 to help Austin startups hire talented engineers who work within US time zones in Latin America. Since then we’ve grown to a team of over 300, and our platform has enabled hundreds of companies to hire individual teammates, set up remote, hybrid or in-office teams, and manage remote equipment assets and benefits. Join over 200 companies, like Coinbase, Kojo,Truepill, Vanta and other YC companies that have hired with Howdy to build their tech outpost in Latin America. Better talent: Howdy is deeply involved in the Latin American tech scene, regularly hosting meetups and inviting speakers and industry leaders into our local communities called Howdy Houses throughout Latin America. We get to personally know the top tech leaders who are interested in joining product teams in the US for the long-term. These individuals are not actively seeking jobs through freelancer platforms. 98% retention: Developer churn slows teams down. That’s why, when you hire with Howdy, developers are automatically provided with premium health insurance, top-of-the-line Apple equipment, gym memberships, lunches and the use of class-A office spaces. Your engineering culture: When you partner with Howdy, you're not just hiring individuals; you're gaining access to a skilled local workforce that becomes an extension of your team. We provide full support in all areas, from recruitment to equipment and office spaces, allowing you to build and directly oversee your engineering outpost in Latin America as your team grows. All-in monthly pricing: Software Developer: $6k - 11k Finance Back-office: $1.8K - 3K Customer Service: $1.8K - 3K Designer: $1.8K - 4K Marketing: $2k - 4K *All-in monthly rate includes: salary, taxes, benefits, computer, equipment, office space, Howdy fee & more
    recruiting
    b2b
  • ModernLoop
    ModernLoop
    Y Combinator LogoW2021
    Active • 15 employees • San Mateo, CA, USA
    ModernLoop helps every company automate and streamline recruiting operations to deliver the best candidate experience. In 2022, the Department of Labor estimates there is a global talent shortage of 40 million workers, and that number is expected to grow to over 85 million by 2030. In order for companies to win the war for talent, they need to provide a best-in-class candidate experience to recruit top talent, and our product aims at doing just that! Our founders Lydia Han (CEO) and Chris Triolo (CTO) both founded ModernLoop in December of 2020 after they saw the challenges recruiting teams had when it came to coordinating hundreds of interviews across various teams, all while making sure both hiring managers and candidates had the best experience possible. After spending 15+ combined years at companies like Facebook, Slack, Brex and Salesforce, they understood what it took to enable talent teams do their best work, and are building a product to scale alongside them as they grow. We created ModernLoop to serve companies of all sizes in every industry to help Talent teams interview candidates quicker, easier, and enhance productivity of teams as they continue their search for top talent!
    hr-tech
    b2b
    productivity
    remote-work
    recruiting
  • HENRY
    HENRY
    Y Combinator LogoS2020
    Active • 100 employees • Buenos Aires, Argentina
    AI Engineers, ML+ Data Scientists, AI Product Engineers. We also help companies accelerate AI Adoption.
    b2b
    latin-america
    recruiting
    talent-acquisition
    ai-enhanced-learning
  • PowerUs
    PowerUs
    Y Combinator LogoS2020
    Active • 80 employees • Berlin, Germany
    PowerUs helps skilled blue-collar workers like electricians and mechanics to find better full-time jobs. With only 10 minutes of effort, our users get job offers that pay them up to 50% more than they are making today.
    b2b
    recruiting
  • Simplify
    Simplify
    Y Combinator LogoW2021
    Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Simplify is building the AI-enabled infrastructure to power the next generation of hiring – reimagining how people discover and secure their next career opportunity. We believe that everyone deserves an all-star talent agent helping them plan, manage, and accomplish their career goals, no matter their background, location, or education. Through our flagship product, Copilot, we've helped over 1M+ job seekers discover and apply to over 100 million jobs - and we've done this with a tight-knit team of just 7 people. We're rapidly expanding on both the candidate and recruiter fronts, focused on our vision of building a common app and personal AI agent for your career. Backed by top-tier investors including Craft and YCombinator, we're a mission-driven team working to democratize the job search and disrupt the way hiring works today.
    recruiting
    machine-learning
    marketplace
    generative-ai
  • AccioJob
    AccioJob
    Y Combinator LogoW2019
    Active • 250 employees • Gurugram, Haryana, India
    AccioJob is an ed-tech startup run by IIT Delhi Alumni that provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art learning platform for Full Stack Web Development and Data Analytics. Our industry-relevant curriculum is taught by top tech instructors and mentors, and our students have gone on to work at leading tech companies like Amazon, Salesforce, and Walmart, among others. With job placement opportunities at 300+ top tech partner companies, we have placed 1000+ students in 2022 itself at an average salary of 8.3 LPA
    education
    recruiting
  • The Muse
    The Muse
    Y Combinator LogoW2012
    Active • 60 employees • New York, NY, USA
    The Muse is a values-based careers site that helps Gen Z and millennial candidates find a career path and search for jobs at companies whose people, benefits, and values align with their unique professional needs. For employers, our marketplace results in a more efficient hiring process that results in better "matches" - and therefore better retention.
    marketplace
    saas
    recruiting
  • Weekday
    Weekday
    Y Combinator LogoW2021
    Active • 38 employees • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    At Weekday, we have built the most accurate database of talent (250mn+ people in US & India with contact data), we run outbound campaigns to identify top talent for any role you might be hiring for. We generate the highest response rates (30-40%) on our campaigns making sourcing talent as easy as making a job posting
    recruiting
    b2b
  • Hatchways
    Hatchways
    Y Combinator LogoS2019
    Active • 8 employees • Toronto, ON, Canada
    Easily customize GitHub-based technical assessments, where candidates can complete tasks like reviewing code, submitting a pull request, or improving a system’s design. Hatchways helps you build a state-of-the-art practical interview process that is customized to your role while saving you engineering interview load along the way.
    hr-tech
    recruiting
    b2b
    talent-acquisition
    workflow-automation
  • DirectShifts
    DirectShifts
    Y Combinator LogoS2019
    Active • 72 employees • New York, NY, USA
    We connect healthcare workers (physicians, advanced practitioners, nurses and allied health workers) to hospitals/clinics/telehealth companies for short/full time job opportunities.
    healthcare
    recruiting
  • Edyst
    Edyst
    Y Combinator LogoW2019
    Active • 11 employees • Hyderabad, Telangana, India
    Edyst is a Y Combinator-funded company (W19) working in the online learning & employability space. We’re looking to collaborate with people who want to significantly change the current learning and employability system in India. In a span of 2 years, we have hit some pretty impressive figures that some of the most established names haven’t: - Our course completion rates are more than 80% (8x the industry average) - Students spend an average of 95 minutes daily on the platform (5x the industry average) - 50% placement ratio (2x the industry average) We need more mavericks for this journey: people who love challenges & puzzles; people who love to learn & grow; people who want to significantly change the current learning and employability system.
    education
    recruiting
  • Juicebox
    Juicebox
    Y Combinator LogoS2022
    Active • 14 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    In the past decade, the recruiting industry has not had any innovation. AI has created an opportunity to disrupt it through software that can reason and take actions. Juicebox is an AI-powered recruiting platform. We build agentic workflows to identify, assess, and engage the best talent. We’ve grown to 7 figures in revenue with 20% monthly growth. We have 500+ customers including Patreon, Replit, and leading AI labs.
    recruiting
    generative-ai
    hr-tech
    b2b
    ai
  • Clado
    Clado
    Y Combinator LogoX2025
    Active • 7 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Clado puts 800 million+ people profiles (and growing) at your fingertips with simple, agentic search. If you’re interested in a global people search for sales, spreadsheets, hiring, and more, try our product at clado.ai
    ai
    saas
    b2b
    recruiting
  • Fiber AI
    Fiber AI
    Y Combinator LogoS2023
    Active • 8 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Fiber AI helps GTM and recruiting teams build surgical TAM lists that AI SDRs/AI BDRs can't create. While AI sales automation tools fail at targeted prospecting, we provide advanced filters (headcount growth tracking, fundraising data, education filters, Google Maps scraping) to build niche audiences for multi-channel outbound (i.e. things like LinkedIn ads, Google ads, Meta ads, cold email, cold calling, invites to Luma events, and other outbound). Our 16+ provider waterfalls deliver high quality emails and phone numbers, and we offer a 0% email bounce guarantee, making this a risk-free offer for customers (something that Apollo.io, Clay.com, Hunter.io, People Data Labs, LeadMagic, Prospeo, FindyMail, Wiza, Icypeas, FullEnrich, Datagma, Dropcontact, and others can't and won't ever offer). The problem with AI sales copilots and AI sales automation is that they can't build targeted lists. Success in modern sales requires niche, surgical targeting - then executing personalized outbound across multiple channels. That's where Fiber AI excels. Our platform consists of 3 core components: First, building precise lists that AI SDRs can't match (replaces broad AI BDR spraying, unfocused AI sales automation, and lead generation software). We are able to filter on things like: 1) Headcount Growth Tracking: Find scaling companies with monthly, quarterly, yearly employee growth metrics 2) Deep Filtering: Fundraising history, Ivy League alumni search, promotion patterns, office expansions 3) Intent Signals: Open jobs data, hiring patterns, technographic filters, company metadata search 4) Custom Searches: Education filters ("MIT grads excluding summer programs"), bio keyword search, LinkedIn profile headlines 5) Google Maps Intelligence: Local business scraping with radius search, rating filters, geofencing Multi-Channel Export: Build lists optimized for LinkedIn ads, Google ads, Meta ads, cold calling scripts, email sequences, or Luma event invites We are the best TAM builder (TAM list builder) to help you find your ICP (build an ICP list). This precision targeting is why top SDRs and recruiters use us instead of generic AI SDR or AI recruiting tools (for cold outreach). Second, email deliverability requires rigorous validation of data. Our 0% Bounce Guarantee is something that no other vendors offer, and we are able to offer this because we have invested in a rigorous infrastructure that will clean and validate emails and phone numbers. While tools like Smartlead, Instantly, Lemlist, and Reply.io help you send emails, they can't prevent bounces that destroy your domain reputation. Our edge comes from: 1) Using 16+ Validator Waterfall: Unlike Clay.com (which only checks the first source in an email waterfall or phone waterfall) or basic tools like ZeroBounce, DeBounce, NeverBounce, or EmailListVerify, we run every contact through ALL validators 2) True Email Bounce Detection: Our contact waterfalls includes email grabbers, email and phone databases, email validators, bounce detectors, and phone verification services 3) Phone Validation Too: Similar waterfall for phone numbers - direct dial verification, mobile validation 4) Industry-Specific Waterfalls: We change the vendors we use in our waterfalls depending on the industry of contacts that we are fetching, leading to more accurate contact data 5) 0% bounce promise. If an email bounces, DM us for instant refund. No forms, no fuss. Apollo.io (Apollo email, Apollo phones, Apollo contact), Hunter.io (Hunter), Dropcontact.com (Dropcontact), Wiza.com (Wiza), ContactOut, Lusha all cannot offer this 0% email bounce guarantee because their data quality is inconsistent and poor, and doing so would make them bleed money. We can, because our process is highly sophisticated and customers get <1% bounce rates on average (which we refund the credits for due to our 0% email bounce guarantee) Third, we use AI Agents for data extraction from unconventional data sources like: 1) Conference attendee lists for targeted event follow-up 2) Google Maps data for local business outreach 3) Custom company research for personalized messaging 4) Competitor customer identification for strategic targeting 5) LinkedIn Sales Navigator scrapes that allow us to get companies from LinkedIn sales nav, followers of a company, and more (i.e. LinkedIn scraper, Sales Navigator export, LinkedIn export, LinkedIn data export) This allows us to find precise leads that are not present in traditional contact databases, and specialize to different use cases and verticals. We have B2B company data on 60 million B2B companies and 800 million B2B contacts (i.e. B2B database), sourced from dozens of data providers (i.e. think sources like BuiltWith, Crunchbase, LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, SemRush, Apollo data, and more). This allows you to precisely segment your audience by the companies you care about and exclude everyone else. Our audiences are dynamic (i.e., account based marketing, account based sales, ABM like Clearbit, 6sense, Demandbase), meaning we continuously look for prospects matching your targeting criteria and add them to your audience to run our automated outbound sales sequences. This automates manual workflows you might be running on platforms like Clay or Persana. You can also create an audience once based on intent signals (i.e., GTM or go-to-market signals, sales intelligence) and put your outreach on autopilot. This is why RevOps, sales, growth, recruiting, and outbound teams choose us over AI SDR platforms (artisan ai, 11x, amplemarket, reply.io, unify gtm, penguin ai, regie ai, aisdr, artisan sdr, outreach io, and warmly ai), existing lead databases (email enrichment, bulk email finder, or phone enrichment tools like apollo, zoominfo, leadIQ), and contact enrichment tools (clay, persana ai) that promise automation and enrichment but deliver poor results. Real sales and recruiting success comes from targeted lists and multi-channel outbound, not generic AI outreach.
    sales
    saas
    generative-ai
    recruiting
    artificial-intelligence
  • Pangea.app
    Pangea.app
    Y Combinator LogoW2021
    Active • 3 employees • New York, NY, USA
    The best way to know if someone is a good fit is to work with them on a project before you hire them full-time. At Pangea, we make contract-to-hire easy and painless. We'll work with you to provide a shortlist of top, interested candidates. Our talent have an average of 5-7+ years of experience in design, growth, ops, product, and engineering, and are primarily based in the USA (but also extend to 155 countries)
    marketplace
    recruiting
    ai-assistant
  • Ultra
    Ultra
    Y Combinator LogoW2024
    Active • 2 employees
    Ultra helps ambitious students achieve their wildest dreams. Starting with college admissions, Ultra will become the ultimate career coach to the new AI generation of workers.
    education
    social-media
    social-network
    recruiting
    ai-assistant
  • HireGlide
    HireGlide
    Y Combinator LogoF2025
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    HireGlide puts the right people in the right places. Candidates get sent to roles which are looking for people just like them with a relational career passport which can measure fit for multiple open positions. On the company side, teams can process even the heaviest inbound rapidly and do targeted outbound on candidates who want to be hired.
    recruiting
    talent-acquisition
    hr-tech
    artificial-intelligence
  • Outrove
    Outrove
    Y Combinator LogoS2025
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Outrove is the world’s most realistic AI recruiter, with a human-appearing interview agent that has both video and audio and can join Google Meet calls.
    ai
    recruiting
  • Dealls – Jobs & Mentoring
    Dealls – Jobs & Mentoring
    Y Combinator LogoW2022
    Active • 127 employees • Jakarta, Indonesia
    Dealls offers a curated selection of job vacancies for individuals pre-screened and curated by our team. By partnering with us, 5000+ companies have saved time and money by receiving only eligible and top candidates. Job seekers love Dealls because they can apply to multiple top companies with a single click and receive responses 21X faster than with other platforms.
    recruiting
    hr-tech
    b2b
    saas
  • Adni
    Adni
    Y Combinator LogoS2021
    Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Adni is the first AI-powered super app for healthcare workers. With Adni, healthcare workers can find jobs, buy gear, trade advice, review education, store credentials, and more. Leading organizations, like Penn Medicine, MedPro, and PRN Healthcare, partner with Adni to recruit empowered healthcare talent faster and cheaper.
    marketplace
    saas
    b2b
    recruiting
    healthcare
  • Hirebolt
    Hirebolt
    Y Combinator LogoS2021
    Active • 3 employees • London, UK
    We are disrupting hospitality hiring by reducing the time it takes to hire staff from months to < 3 days. Hiring staff is the biggest challenge for many of the 2M+ hospitality businesses in Europe. Covid and Brexit ceased the usual oversupply of candidates, making traditional job boards unable to meet employers' needs, and agencies more expensive than ever. As a consequence, employers spend huge amounts of time sourcing candidates manually and filtering through irrelevant CVs. Up to 80% of candidates who get invited to an interview, don't even show up. At Hirebolt we eliminate all this work for employers, by finding actively-looking candidates, vetting them and automatically matching them to the best employers using AI. We schedule interviews and extend offers to candidates faster than humans can, giving employers time back to run their businesses. To date, we’ve raised ~$1.5M from investors including Y Combinator, Entrepreneur First, world-class Venture Capital funds and industry leaders.
    recruiting
    hr-tech
  • Crew
    Crew
    Y Combinator LogoS2021
    Active • 6 employees • Paris, France
    Crew is the next-gen ATS/CRM built just for recruiting agencies and independent recruiters. It’s all about modern sourcing, packed with cool automation and even a dash of AI. It's beautiful and well-designed. Plus, it’s deeply integrated with LinkedIn—because let’s be honest, that’s where we recruiters hang out most of the day. With Crew, you can forget about all that tedious copying/pasting, and tab-switching, making your workday a whole lot smoother.
    recruiting
    crm
    talent-acquisition
    sales-enablement
  • Careerist
    Careerist
    Y Combinator LogoS2021
    Active • 100 employees • Sunnyvale, CA, USA
    Careerist is an ed-fintech platform that trains job seekers for tech careers (in QA, Sales, Support & more), finances them and automates their job hunting. Our B2B2C platform aggregates job seekers, tutors and employers – streamlining training and placement. Techcrunch: "Edtech meets SaaS in Careerist’s job placement learning platform. The startup trains job seekers through live and self-paced training taught by third-party tutors. The adaptive learning software is meant to help candidates prep for tech interviews. Once a candidate is well equipped, Careerist uses automation to help them apply for jobs."
    fintech
    recruiting
    education
  • Clicks
    Clicks
    Y Combinator LogoF2025
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Clicks automates your back-office using your existing tools and processes without requiring any IT integrations. What We Do: Think of Clicks as your back-office worker that can handle any repetitive task. Simply describe your process via video call or share documentation, and our forward-deployed engineering team ensures it's automated exactly your way. Our AI agents work 24/7 and can be kicked-off via email, Slack, or our web app, handling tasks like CRM updates, report generation, and data entry while adapting to your existing software. Initial Focus: We're starting with recruiting and executive search firms, automating candidate codification, assessment reports, and administrative workflows that typically consume hours of manual work each day. Value Proposition: Our pricing is 100% outcome based: you only pay for the work outputs we complete (e.g., candidates added to CRM, reports generate, etc.). Current customers are already live and saving an average of 60% in costs compared to human workers, with full automation deployed within one week.
    recruiting
    ai
    workflow-automation
    automation
  • Airwork
    Airwork
    Y Combinator LogoW2022
    Active • 4 employees • Toronto, ON, Canada
    Airwork is an on-demand labor marketplace for premium blue collar workers. You can get an Airworker the same way you get an Uber, except instead of a taxi, someone shows up at your work site to work for the day. Airwork fills 98% of shifts in 2 hours. We're currently live in 8 industries across Southern Ontario, Canada, and customers include Tesla, the Toronto Pearson Airport, and the CNE. We're funded by YCombinator, Expa, Village Global, and SHL Capital.
    marketplace
    recruiting
    enterprise-software
    b2b
    ai
  • Py
    Y Combinator LogoS2017
    Acquired • 3 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Py is democratizing access to career opportunities in tech. Our iOS and Android apps have been featured in the App Store & Google Play Store and we've provided millions of lessons and quizzes to our users. We are changing the way that educational content is delivered and modernizing traditional online teaching tools. We launched Py for Work to level the playing field for candidates and empower companies to take a skills-based approach to hiring. Our platform enables companies to assess candidates using real-world assessments, not brain teasers. We’re helping industry leaders like LiveRamp, Amplitude, and Factual approach hiring based on merit, not resume keywords.
    recruiting
  • Headstart
    Headstart
    Y Combinator LogoS2017
    Acquired • 44 employees • London, UK
    Headstart (YC S17) uses Machine Learning technology to help employers identify the best-suited talent in the shortest period of time. We provide leading organisations with a solution designed to help them transition away from experience/qualification based screening and towards a more inclusive and effective process which considers personality, behaviours, strengths and motivations. In doing so, Headstart helps companies hire people truly aligned to their values, culture and exact job requirements in a seamless, engaging way. The Headstart process is simple and effective: companies save time and money by finding candidates who meet their exact job requirements at an earlier stage, and job seekers connect directly with businesses through an engaging, reusable 15 minute application form. We ensure a transparent process and initiate productive dialogue, making candidates feel valued and helping companies hire the right people.
    recruiting
    machine-learning
  • Kalibrr
    Kalibrr
    Y Combinator LogoW2013
    Acquired • 51 employees • Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
    Kalibrr operates a two-sided job marketplace in Southeast Asia with over 5,000,000 high-skill white collar talents primarily in the Philippines and Indonesia. With Kalibrr, you can recruit and build a remote sales, product, engineering or design team in the Philippines within minutes
    recruiting
    remote-work
  • Jopwell
    Jopwell
    Y Combinator LogoS2015
    Acquired • 50 employees • New York, NY, USA
    Jopwell’s mission is to make a substantial, measurable impact on increasing Black, Latinx, and Native American representation in the workforce. Jopwell strives to build inclusive workplaces where our members can bring their authentic selves to work. We do this by assisting companies with their recruitment, marketing, and retention efforts for communities of color.
    saas
    recruiting
  • Interviewed
    Interviewed
    Y Combinator LogoS2015
    Acquired0 • Austin, TX, USA
    Indeed, the world’s number one job site has acquired Interviewed - http://press.indeed.com/press/indeed-acquires-leading-hr-technology-company-interviewed/
    hr-tech
    recruiting
  • Bluecrew
    Bluecrew
    Y Combinator LogoS2015
    Acquired • 100 employees • Chicago, IL, USA
    BlueCrew is an on-demand, data-driven staffing platform for blue collar jobs in Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, and Reno. Bluecrew is a seed-stage, YC backed company creating software to automate outdated, and inefficient traditional temp agencies. We are the best platform to quickly fill positions with high-quality workers. Bluecrew is an ideal staffing partner for companies looking for temporary, seasonal, or temp to hire workers for jobs including event staff, warehouse staff, drivers, forklift operators, data entry personnel, movers, and customer service reps. By innovating on screening, matching, dispatching, and time tracking technology, BlueCrew eliminates the major pain points of other alternatives.
    recruiting
  • CSPA
    CSPA
    Y Combinator LogoS2018
    Acquired • 6 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    The Computer Science Proficiency Assessment (CSPA™) is a comprehensive standardized exam for software engineers. The CSPA assesses your technical knowledge, skills, and abilities across a broad array of topics. We write the CSPA exam questions, software engineers take the test, and we share the results with employers and schools. MARKETING & SALES: We actively find software engineers to take our test, whether direct or through partnerships. On the other side, we actively partner with employers looking to hire. PRODUCT: We build the exam content manage system, a proctoring framework, and autograding system, as well as a SaaS employer product to browse the candidate database.
    education
    recruiting
  • Loop Support
    Loop Support
    Y Combinator LogoW2017
    Acquired • 7 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    We build pre-employment assessments that accurately simulate the work your applicants will actually be doing on-the-job.
    b2b
    saas
    recruiting