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Companies rely on old compensation survey data, which are updated only once every year.\n\nThe salary expectations of candidates in the market change significantly on a quarterly basis (**_\\~7% statistically_**) in the startup ecosystem.\n\nThis results in more than 50% of qualified/selected candidates not joining the company due to expectation mismatch.\n\n### [**🤩**](https://emojipedia.org/emoji/%F0%9F%A4%A9/) **The Solution**\n\n[HireSure.ai](http://HireSure.ai) is an API-driven compensation benchmarking tool. We integrate with your existing HR/payroll systems, removing the need for manual data entry, and also **getting updated in real-time**.\n\n\\\n[HireSure.ai](http://HireSure.ai) provides the most accurate real-time compensation benchmarking data which helps you **make the right offer** to the candidate. The platform allows you to communicate your offer to the candidate in the **most presentable and engaging manner**. It also uses behavior signals to **predict a potential dropout** in order to make course-correction to retain them.\n\n\\\nThis has the following advantages :\n\n* All the process of compensation **data submission is automatic** and needs no manual intervention\n* Since the job market is dynamic in nature, the offers made on [HireSure.ai](http://HireSure.ai)’s **real-time benchmarks** would be the most efficient\n* The presentation of the offer to the candidate makes it look **more appealing** and **explanatory** to the candidate\n* **Predicting a potential dropout** help companies put focused efforts into retaining the candidate\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65208&key=user_uploads/858890/d144ffa8-0f31-4014-b66a-4db7dd8c228c)\n\n\n### [**🤩**](https://emojipedia.org/emoji/%F0%9F%A4%A9/) **The Ask**\n\n* **Warm introductions to Indian startups** (above 100 employees ) for a product demo\n* If you wish to know more or have any feedback (especially negative), we would be very happy to get in touch [anurag@hiresure.ai](mailto:anurag@hiresure.ai)\n\n### **😀 The Deal**\n\n* All Indian YC companies that sign up by Sep’22 shall be getting compensation benchmarks **for free** (make sure you have this data before appraisals [🤭](https://emojis.wiki/face-with-hand-over-mouth/)).\\\n Reach out to me at [anurag@hiresure.ai](mailto:anurag@hiresure.ai) or [Sign Up Here](https://www.hiresure.ai/about/contact)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gxk-hiresure-ai-is-pave-for-india-to-benchmark-compensation", "votes": 49, "created_at": "2022-08-08T17:19:59.840Z" } ] }, { "id": 29651, "name": "FirstWork", "slug": "firstwork", "former_names": [ "Migrant.ai", "firstwork.ai" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d263d80a559ff3f8f00a1086c466c45905a09911.png", "website": "https://firstwork.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Firstwork is a next-generation HR platform designed specifically for companies with dynamic workforce needs. 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We are Vardhan and Shubham, and we’re on a mission to build an all-in-one HR and compliance platform for frontline workers.\n\n🧨 **The Problem:** Managing workforces in sectors like transport, delivery, and logistics is complex and inefficient. Many sectors have seasonal onboarding/offboarding and onerous credential validation that bottleneck HR Ops teams. Traditional HRIS solutions are scattered across multiple systems, which leads to delays, compliance issues, and high operational costs.\n\nWorking at Deliveroo and Remitly, where we spent a lot of time partnering with frontline workers across the gig economy, trucking, and logistics industries. Managing HR and compliance was a constant struggle.\n\n🎉 **The Solution:** At **Firstwork**, we realize that worker onboarding, compliance, and management are not standalone problems but interconnected opportunities that require a unified approach. It’s with these insights that we’re building a compound product, with an initial focus on:\n\n* **Smart Onboarding 📋:** Automates credential verification with Intelligent Process Automation and OCR, reducing admin burdens and speeding up time-to-productivity.\n* **AI-Assisted Communication 🤖:** Enhances new hire activation for better engagement and faster integration.\n* **Perpetual Compliance ✅:** Uses AI and OCR to ensure continuous compliance, tracking document expirations and updating records.\n\n**Using Firstwork, Employees:**\n\n✔️ Get onboarded faster and with less hassle\\\n✔️ Receive timely and relevant communication for better engagement\\\n✔️ Stay compliant with regulations effortlessly\n\n**and Companies:**\\\n✔️ Avoid compliance issues and potential penalties\\\n✔️ Improve overall worker efficiency per hour \\\n✔️ Save time, costs, and reduce administrative burdens\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXe2_g1HVyT3kqDGZDJeclhjnPtvP8Z1UOnnNkp8LIbHqbmJVEdMbMOpXn3ZHSTqrHlBsnv_dZS1wtr9c5ZBWffOOseNQAXRKDnLd8dpKGny22Mq7QRMSK5F4VpGQMilE8hgMMSs7cX86oRJSorWvDexFrze?key=BnWjbm21DhEvXen5Fbi5aQ)\n\n\\\n💲 **Opportunity:** The scope and impact of our market are significant. Companies in logistics, warehousing, delivery, hospitality, and BPO centers can benefit from our platform, improving their workforce management processes and saving costs.\n\n**Our Team:**\n\n[Vardhan Kapoor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vardhan-kapoor/), our CEO, has firsthand experience with blue-collar worker engagement challenges at Deliveroo and Remitly, where he scaled various business units to high eight-figure USD ARR. [Shubham Choudhary](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shubhamtech/), our CTO, built the core HR infrastructure at Rippling and Deel and holds multiple US patents.\n\n👋 **Ask:** How you can help\n\n* We’d love to connect with companies in the logistics, ride-hailing, warehousing, trucking, delivery, hospitality, and BPO centers. \n* If you know potential customers or partners, please reach out at [vardhan@firstwork.com.](mailto:vardhan@firstwork.com)\n* We’d also love any feedback or advice from this incredible community.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdXMy7QIbUBRiQJM2qgKkTV5KgMxDfhlzakRVbkQ_S67FG9Yp78Y6f9WUUD8TLRLuy9CZrZux6ko1__oMg3ehSw3XmvAR0McL7kY3kCrEj7Hdzg3XNCxkXjjhfODZdKqEeBLseqdvV7BbhA0XVCWmgyZ1w?key=BnWjbm21DhEvXen5Fbi5aQ)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LRX-firstwork-rippling-for-frontline-workers", "votes": 131, "created_at": "2024-07-24T23:57:23.769Z" } ] }, { "id": 29967, "name": "Village Labs", "slug": "village-labs", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b437f74d1da9b456b7203c06d57c8eae2c1fa858.png", "website": "https://villagelabs.app/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "At Village Labs, we help America's businesses become employee owned by helping them set up and manage an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). \r\n\r\nESOPs are a federal retirement plan that enable businesses to give their employees a stake in the company in exchange for significant tax benefits. \r\n\r\nWith 2.9M Baby Boomer business owners set to retire in the coming years, there's a growing \"Silver Tsunami\" of businesses across the country in search of new ownership. For many of these owners, selling to their employees is a socially-minded yet financially pragmatic solution.\r\n\r\nBy selling ownership of their business to an ESOP, owners get a fair price, tax benefits, and the satisfaction of knowing their employees and legacy will be taken care of — things not guaranteed with traditional buyers like private equity. In turn, employees retain their jobs and get shares in the business that can help them create life changing wealth by the time they retire — imagine an office secretary retiring as a millionaire. \r\n\r\nThousands of businesses across America like Bob's Red Mill, Harpoon Brewery, and Recology already have an ESOP, benefiting over 14 million workers and creating 2.1 trillion in employee wealth. 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Our hope is that by creating great products and technology for ESOPs, we’ll be able to expand employee ownership across America.\n\nBefore this, I co-founded Finary (YC W21) where we were building a social network for the stock market (before WallStreetBets went viral!). I studied Technological & Social Innovation at Harvard and left after my sophomore year to do YC.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/rogercawdette", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/be69d3d9af7fe01ea77512f9be7a6ed6368eb9a3.jpg" }, { "user_id": 954558, "full_name": "Turja Chowdhury", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO @ Village Labs", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/tchowd", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/tchowd_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8d06761d9619ea2b2b3662d2ae2d556c28e780c7.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "13 companies from YC Demo Day 1 that are worth paying attention to | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/13-companies-from-yc-demo-day-1-that-are-worth-paying-attention-to/", "date": "Sep 25, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 83814, "title": "Village Labs - We help America’s businesses become employee owned", "tagline": "We do this by helping businesses set up and manage an employee stock ownership plan, also known as, an ESOP.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83814&key=user_uploads/534449/8b9ac73e-4230-4b71-bce0-a8ab4dbd1fb8)\n\n\\\nHello YC community & world,\\\n\\\nIt’s an exciting time! Turja and I are building [Village Labs](https://villagelabs.app/), a new firm that helps businesses become employee-owned by helping them set up and manage an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).\\\n\\\nESOPs are federal retirement plans that enable companies to give their employees shares in the business in exchange for major tax benefits. They are NOT stock option plans, and no, we are NOT doing cap table management!\\\n\\\n**EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP WILL BE BIG**\\\nThere are currently about 6,000 companies with an ESOP across the country — the popular names include Publix Supermarkets, Harpoon Brewery, and Recology (the maker of those black, blue, and green trash bins you see on every street in SF).\\\n\\\nEmployee ownership has been around for decades in America, but there’s going to be an explosion in the number of employee-owned businesses that are created in the next few years. There are a couple of reasons for this:\n\n1. **The Silver Tsunami:** 2\\.9M Baby Boomer business owners are going to sell their businesses in the next few years. Many of them will sell to their employees because they get a fair price, tax benefits, and the comfort of knowing their employees will be taken care of - things not guaranteed by traditional buyers like private equity.\n2. **Government support**: Congress and state legislatures are passing more legislation to encourage the creation of ESOPs. This largely looks like more tax benefits for ESOP businesses and owners who sell to an ESOP.\n3. **Mainstream awareness**: There’s been a surge in awareness of employee ownership in the last few years because of new press coverage. See: [Pete Stavros on 60 Minutes](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/private-equitys-unlikely-champion-for-giving-workers-a-leg-up-with-employee-ownership-60-minutes-transcript/), [Blackstone announcing its employee ownership initiative](https://www.wsj.com/finance/blackstone-to-grant-equity-to-most-employees-in-future-u-s-buyouts-3c5fed45), [major businesses announcing becoming employee owned.](https://www.wsj.com/articles/room-board-sets-up-employee-stock-ownership-plan-giving-workers-a-stake-6d214864)\n\n\\\n**WHAT IS VILLAGE LABS DOING?**\\\nAt Village Labs, we’re setting out to help create as many employee-owned businesses as possible. In terms of what we do, we help owners sell to their employees via an ESOP and then provide them with the tools they need to manage their plans. \\\n\\\n**HOW YOU CAN HELP**\\\nMost business owners don’t know that selling to their employees is an option (and one that commonly comes with the most financial benefits). We’re working to change that by building a nationwide network of partners with close connections to the many Boomer business owners who will retire soon. We work with these partners to educate owners on selling to their employees.\\\n\\\nIf you’d like to help, you could introduce us to…\n\n* Owners and executives at mid-sized businesses with 20+ employees and stable cash flows\n* Business brokerage firms (e.g. Transworld, Sunbelt Brokers, etc.)\n* Exit/estate planning firms + wealth managers\n\nAnd if you happen to be one of these, we’d love to talk to you.\n\n\\\n**WHY WE’RE EXCITED ABOUT EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP**\\\nThe short answer is that being employee-owned is just a better way of doing business.\\\n\\\nHere’s the story of CHI Overhead Doors, a garage door manufacturer in rural Illinois. They’re not an ESOP, but their story highlights what makes employee ownership so awesome.\\\n\\\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJiugz-QPSA)\n\\\nThis isn’t an isolated, one-off thing. There are many stories out there of businesses that benefited from becoming employee-owned - and we’ve seen them personally. Turja and I have been on the road for a lot of YC this summer, visiting employee-owned businesses in places like Portland, Tuscon, and other cities across the country. One of the main things you notice is that the employees are noticeably happier, and the quality of service is excellent - likely because the employees have ownership in the business and, therefore, an incentive to see it succeed. It’s the same reason we, as founders, give shares to our employees.\\\n\\\nConsidering 70% of Americans [don’t like their jobs,](https://www.gallup.com/workplace/468233/employee-engagement-needs-rebound-2023.aspx?stream=science) and \\~50% [have no retirement savings](https://usafacts.org/data-projects/retirement-savings), we think widespread employee ownership would bring those numbers down. That’s why our goal is to create as many employee-owned businesses as possible. That means more people who enjoy their jobs, more retirement savings, and a more productive economy.\\\n\\\nAgain, most people don’t know that employee ownership is a thing, but wouldn’t we all be better off if they did? If you’d like to help us with this or are just curious to learn more, please do reach out!\\\n\\\nThanks for reading!\\\n\\\n\\-Roger & Turja", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lnq-village-labs-we-help-america-s-businesses-become-employee-owned", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2024-09-06T14:07:41.797Z" } ] }, { "id": 31363, "name": "Saffron", "slug": "saffron", "former_names": [ "Saffron AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d3143a0fc23ce4251d146cce9ebb5799fc664317.png", "website": "https://www.trysaffron.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Saffron allows companies to quickly evaluate how well software engineers use AI to code. \r\n\r\nThe way engineers write code has fundamentally changed, but the way companies evaluate them hasn't. 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Jerry studied at Stanford and was also at Jane Street. Kazuma studied at Harvey Mudd and was published in NeurIPS and ICML.\n\nAll three of us were CS students recruiting for SWE jobs the entirety of our first semester of college. And after noticing how much our coding workflow had changed with the introduction of better and better models, we knew that assessments had to catch up.\n\n---\n\n**Our Ask**\n\n* **Hiring SWEs?** We'll set up your first assessment for free, configure it to your codebase, and work with you 1:1 to build out whatever you need. We're early and hungry. Book a call: [**https://trysaffron.ai**](https://trysaffron.ai)\n* **Know an engineering lead, head of talent, or recruiter** who's frustrated with their current process? 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Off your plate.", "body": "Hey everyone 👋 We’re Onur and Ece, founders of **Spine (F26)**. We previously founded companies together with over $1B in value, and Spine is the company we wish we’d had while building them.\n\nWe run **benefits, people ops, and compliance for startups for free**.\n\nInstead of giving founders another piece of software to manage, we give every company dedicated senior HR and benefits specialists who actually do the work, on top of the HRIS they already use — Rippling, Deel, Gusto, ADP, and others.\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\n* Dedicated senior HR + benefits specialists working directly with your team in Slack\n* Works on top of the HRIS you already use \n* We implement better-fit, more cost-effective health plans and have reduced healthcare costs by around **15% on average**\n* We run open enrollment, benefits administration, payroll, compliance, onboarding/offboarding, and employee support \n* It’s free for startups: we become your benefits broker and are paid by insurance carriers\n* **30+ startups already use Spine, many of them YC companies**\n\nwatch here: \n\n### **The problem**\n\nRippling, Deel, Gusto, and other HR platforms are great software. But someone still has to operate them, deal with issues, coordinate with carriers, answer employee questions, manage compliance, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks.\n\nAt an early-stage company, it usually falls on the founder, COO, finance lead, or whoever happens to know the most about it. That work quickly becomes a second job.\n\nSoftware helps. But someone still has to do the work.\n\n### **What we built**\n\n**Spine does the work for you. For free.**\n\nEvery company gets a dedicated senior HR lead and benefits specialist who works directly with the team, primarily through Slack, on top of the systems they already use.\n\nWe:\n\n* Review your existing health plans and run the market for better options\n* Benchmark coverage and pricing to reduce healthcare spend\n* Run open enrollment and benefits administration\n* Handle employee benefits questions directly\n* Run payroll and resolve payroll issues\n* Handle compliance, onboarding/offboarding, and ongoing people ops\n\nYou don’t need to migrate away from Rippling, Deel, Gusto, ADP, or whatever HRIS you already use. **We operate on top of it.**\n\nFor benefits, we become your broker of record. Insurance carriers already pay broker commissions, so we use those commissions to provide the rest of the service for free.\n\n### **Why we started Spine**\n\nWe spent years building and operating startups ourselves and kept running into the same problem: as our companies grew, we accumulated more software for payroll, benefits, compliance, and HR, but **the work itself never disappeared**.\n\nWe thought startups shouldn’t need to build an internal HR team just to make all of this work.\n\nSo we built Spine.\n\nToday, **30+ startups use us**, and we’re taking this work completely off their plates while also reducing what they spend on healthcare.\n\n### **Our ask 🙏**\n\nIf you’re running a startup, **get a senior HR and benefits team dedicated to you, for free.**\n\nYou can use us if:\n\n* your health insurance renewal or open enrollment is coming up\n* you’re thinking about leaving a PEO\n* you want to know whether you’re overpaying for healthcare\n* you need help with payroll, compliance or benefits\n* or you’re simply tired of spending time on work that has nothing to do with building your company\n\n**Send us what you have and we’ll start working for you right away, for free.**\n\nWe’d also really appreciate introductions to founders, CFOs, or people/ops leaders who could use the help.\n\nStart here: or reach out to me directly here: [onur@joinspine.ai](mailto:onur@joinspine.ai)\n\nWould love feedback from the YC community ❤️", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/URD-spine-we-run-hr-backoffice-benefits-for-startups-for-free", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-09-28T20:00:00.217Z" } ] } ]