Recruiting Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2024

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!

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.

HackerRank, the developer skills company, helps businesses attract, evaluate and hire the best technical talent from around the world. More than 2,800 customers across all industries, including over 25% of the Fortune 100, rely on HackerRank to raise their hiring bars. More than 18 million developers (approximately 40% of the global developer population) trust HackerRank to learn and showcase their coding skills. Every second, two developers complete a HackerRank code submission, or 185,000 per day.

Serra is an AI-driven search engine for recruiters to find best-fit candidates. Connected to your ATS and external candidate sources, recruiters can search “B2B sales reps that have managed key enterprise accounts” and see top matches.

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).

Dover gives you actionable data, supercharges your team’s workflows, and enables you to engage talent at scale so you can deliver an amazing candidate experience. We combine best-in-class candidate evaluation technology with bespoke process automation to help companies find and hire top talent for their open roles. Recruiting is a $50B/year industry in the US, but recruiting departments and agencies still have incredibly manual processes. We've built a better way. Our advanced matching software identifies the perfect candidates across all recruiting channels and drives the hiring process to create a seamless, white-glove experience for both companies and candidates. Dover went through Y Combinator in 2019, and today 200+ companies use our product to run a better hiring process. We've raised $23M from top VCs. We're a remote team of 50+ with hubs in San Francisco and NYC and a presence in Denver, LA, and Seattle.

We build pre-employment assessments that accurately simulate the work your applicants will actually be doing on-the-job.

We help companies hire by building a highly curated list of engineering candidates for them; crowdsourced by our network of software engineers who moonlight as “mini-recruiters” or scouts. Our product enables anyone to become that scout and earn passive income.

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 on behalf of companies from Fortune 500s to startups that have enabled tens of thousands of students to build real experience and open doors to incredible opportunity. 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.

Layup streamlines hiring by using an AI-driven interviewer to conduct screening interviews over the phone We help companies connect with more candidates faster, allowing hiring teams to build relationships with the best-fit applicants. For candidates, this means less waiting and a more respectful process.

AI-powered recruiting and HR platform. Find and hire the best pre-vetted global software talent and simplify onboarding, payroll, and compliance.

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.

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.

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.

AutoProctor is an automated tool that ensures students don’t cheat on online tests. As students take the test, AutoProctor monitors their camera, mic and the screen they are looking at. So, for example, if they try Googling an answer, this will be detected. At the end of the test, depending on the type and frequency of these violations, AutoProctor calculates a Trust Score. Teachers can view the evidence gathered for those Test Attempts with a low Trust Score.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

Simplify is re-imagining the hiring and job-searching process. We're building tools to democratize the job search, no matter what your background is, where you live or what school you attended. Our first product is Copilot, and we're rapidly expanding on both the candidate and recruiter fronts. We've helped facilitate over 20m+ applications in just the last year, and are doubling down on our vision of building a common app and personal AI agent for your career.

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.

Pragmatic Leaders runs online training programs in product management for mid-career professionals in India. We are a better, faster, and cost-effective alternative to getting an MBA in specialized tech business roles like product, growth, and marketing

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.

We connect healthcare workers (physicians, advanced practitioners, nurses and allied health workers) to hospitals/clinics/telehealth companies for short/full time job opportunities.

Mindely is the first AI interviewer designed for skills assessment interviews. Hiring for high volume, high turnover roles (e.g., consultants, analysts, sales & customer representatives) is time-consuming, inconsistent, and prone to unconscious bias. Managers spend valuable time on lengthy skill-based interviews instead of focusing on building candidate relationships or on driving company revenue. Traditional AI interviewers don’t solve these issues – their rigid Q&A formats and one-size-fits-all approach can’t handle complex skill assessments. Mindely changes the game as the first AI interviewer built for in-depth case study, technical and role-play interviews. It: - Simulates human interaction with real-time dialogue - Challenges candidates with dynamic, adaptive responses - Eliminates interviewer bias to create a fair, inclusive hiring process - Works 24/7 to free up senior staff and widen talent pool With Mindely, companies can rapidly customize and deploy human interviews at AI scale to test specific on-the-job skills.

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

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.

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.

Symphony is a conversational AI recruiter that helps companies hire customer-facing roles better & faster, all while giving candidates a more enjoyable and supportive experience in the recruiting process. We help companies in industries like financial services, hospitality, and healthcare quickly fill roles—from customer service representatives to nurses to account managers—in as little as 2 days, with only 20% of the resources.

Lightscreen is an interactive AI interview experience -- a different approach than other screening tools that unlocks greater insight into a candidate's engineering fundamentals and critical thinking skills. Engineering teams use Lightscreen to expand the number of candidates they can screen, eliminate bias, decrease the number of steps in their interview process, and decrease time-to-fill on technical roles.

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.

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)

Abundant powers reliable and safe AI deployment with real-time human expertise. Our network of specialized operators works alongside AI agents to: (1) Handle complex edge cases with precision. (2) Maintain rigorous safety standards. (3) Generate high-quality training data that continuously improves AI performance. Companies can meet stringent quality requirements at a fraction of the cost of in-house teams, while accelerating their AI initiatives.

Apriora conducts live interviews with an AI recruiter. 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.

Dealls offers a curated selection of job vacancies for individuals pre-screened and curated by our team. By partnering with us, more than 500 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.

With Adni, healthcare workers can apply to jobs, buy their gear, store credentials, and trade advice all-in-one. Employers recruit healthcare talent from Adni’s app, and white-label Adni to power their own gamified clinician portal (including their jobs, candidate referrals, and loyalty perks) that improves time-to-hire and retention.

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.

Instead of waiting for candidates to apply, companies use Crew to pro-actively contact, nurture & close talent, at scale. The 1st all-in-one recruiting CRM that lets teams automate their outbound efforts, streamline the hiring processes, and gather all the data in one place.

Parasale is an AI recruiter. It can find, engage and schedule candidates for you. We're empowering founders and recruiters to automate their candidate outbound to reach quality candidates faster. We’re building Parasale based on our deep experience in recruiting as early engineers at Gem (S17), a recruiting tech unicorn.

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."

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.

Bemlo empowers healthcare organizations to offer their employees the flexibility they require. Did you know that the US will be 4 million healthcare workers short by 2026? Post-COVID, a record number of professionals have left the industry due to burnout and 3/10 are considering leaving. We increase retention by making it possible for nurses and doctors to work on their terms - without having to go through staffing agencies. Our customers post vacant shifts to their own pools as well as our marketplace of vetted professionals increasing fill rates while keeping expenses manageable. We serve healthcare organizations from single private elder care homes to large public regional healthcare systems with multiple hospitals and thousands of staff.

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.

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.

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

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.

Indeed, the world’s number one job site has acquired Interviewed - http://press.indeed.com/press/indeed-acquires-leading-hr-technology-company-interviewed/

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.

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.