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Start with as little as $800 (fully refundable deposit).\n\n✨ If you're hiring, get matched with a recruiter at [dover.com/recruiter](http://dover.com/recruiter) ✨\n\n# Dover Recruiting Partners\n\nWe're thrilled to launch Dover Recruiting Partners – our biggest update yet to how startups can hit their hiring goals and hire the best talent.\n\nOver the past 5 years, Dover has helped 1500+ companies like Stripe, Scale AI, OpenSea, Benchling, and Vanta attract and hire top talent. Now, we’re introducing our most flexible and full-service hiring solution for startups: Dover Recruiting Partners.\n\n# 🚀 What are Dover Recruiting Partners?\n\nDover Recruiting Partners are vetted fractional recruiters who can work as an extension of your team. We only accept the top 2% of recruiters.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84634&key=user_uploads/5516/5b78d9d2-2b56-4bf3-8c70-9d233f4a3396)\n\n# Key features\n\n1️⃣ On-demand expertise: Get help from experienced recruiters when you need it, without the overhead of a full-time hire. Perfect for startups and companies with variable hiring needs.\n\n2️⃣ Flexible pricing: Ramp up or down based on your hiring needs – pay only for the hours you use.\n\n3️⃣ Tech-enabled efficiency: Recruiters can use Dover’s ATS, Sourcing Extension, and other tools so they can focus on strategic work and keep their costs low.\n\n4️⃣ Transparent metrics: We share cost-per-hire and fill rates for our recruiters before you hire them so you can find the perfect recruiter for you.\n\n# 🤔 Why did we build this?\n\nRecruiting consistently ranks as a top 3 problem for startups, regardless of their stage or industry. Before companies are big enough to justify hiring a full-time recruiter, they often have to resort to agencies.\n\nWe like to say with agencies, \"You'll be unhappy either way\"—either you won't make a hire and waste time, or you will make a hire and pay $30k+ per placement. There’s a reason you don’t hire engineers or marketers on “contingency.”\n\nWe wanted to provide a more flexible, higher-quality solution. Dover Recruiting Partners gives you access to top-tier recruiting talent without the long-term commitment or exorbitant fees. Our fractional recruiting model allows you to work with a separate expert recruiter for each role you're hiring for, whether it's a senior engineer, a sales leader, or a product manager.\n\n# 💰 How much does it cost?\n\nMost companies spend an average of $80 per hour, depending on the services they use. The cost per hire across the platform varies, but it usually ends up being between $4 and $7k.\n\n# 🚀 How do I get started?\n\nHead to [dover.com/recruiter](http://dover.com/recruiter) and click \"Get matched with a recruiter\". We'll set you up with a free call to understand your needs and match you with the perfect Recruiting Partner.\n\nWe're excited to help companies of all sizes build amazing teams. If you have any questions, drop them in the comments or email me directly at [max@dover.com](mailto:max@dover.com).\n\nRead more about how we got here on our blog: \n\nHappy hiring! 🎉", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M14-dover-recruiting-partners", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2024-10-09T20:37:06.566Z" }, { "id": 76737, "title": "AI Applicant Sorting by Dover", "tagline": "Chat-powered assistant to help you review resumes 10x faster", "body": "\n\nApplicant volume for roles in tech has risen 2.4x in 2023 from last year’s averages. Yet it’s harder to filter down to top candidates and you can’t get back to everyone. It sucks for candidates too — they never hear back, and candidate experience takes a hit.\n\nThe proprietary tech that powers our automated outbound sourcing engine is now applied to reveal top applicants across all your job boards. Use extremely powerful filters and chat to find candidates matching exactly what you’re looking for and review resumes 10x faster — for free.\n\n**What is Dover?**\n\nOver the last five years, Dover (YC S19) has enabled Scale AI, OpenSea, Benchling, Vanta, Stripe, and 500+ other startups to make thousands of hires. You may have seen some of our other launches like our [Applicant Tracking System](https://www.producthunt.com/products/dover#free-ats-by-dover) and [Sourcing Autopilot](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/dover-autopilot).\n\n**What’s different from other resume review tools?**\n\nDover’s AI Applicant Sorting goes far beyond keywords. Dover has a knowledge graph of companies, industries, skillsets, and more.\n\nAI Applicant Sorting allows you to use super powerful filters and chat to find candidates based on exactly what you’re looking for.\n\nAs you review candidates, quickly approve or reject with a click. Take bulk actions to send the next steps in a fraction of the time. Use hotkeys to speed up review time even more.\n\n**What kinds of queries can I sort or filter by?**\n\nIt’s AI-powered, so you can get pretty nuanced:\n\n* “6+ years experience”\n* “based in the US or Canada”\n* “candidates with a fintech background”\n* \"people with experience at B2C startups”\n* “people who have worked on scalable systems”\n* “full stack engineers or people with similar titles”\n* “applicants who worked at well-reputed companies”\n* \"account executives with experience at SaaS startups\"\n* “product managers working in healthcare in San Francisco\"\n* “candidates with FAANG experience who went to a top school”\n* \"software engineers with at least 5 years of experience with React or Typescript experience\"\n\n**How hard is it to set up?**\n\nImport existing applicants from your Applicant Tracking System or get new candidates by posting a job for free with Dover’s ATS, which has everything startups need to build a great recruiting process and candidate experience. It costs $0 and takes 10 minutes to set up.\n\nJust want to try it out? Start using the tool with sample candidates in only a few minutes.\n\n**How much does it cost?**\n\nDover’s AI Applicant Sorting is totally free to use, just like our Applicant Tracking System.\n\n**Why is Dover releasing this for free?**\n\nDover’s mission is to help every company run an incredible hiring process and every candidate has a great experience. The best way to do this is by building easy-to-use tools to help every company get the basics right.\n\nWe make money by selling [Sourcing Autopilot](http://dover.com/sourcing-autopilot) and [Embedded Recruiter](http://dover.com/embedded-recruiter) to companies that need help with sourcing or full-cycle recruiting.\n\n**How do you ensure the AI doesn’t create bias?**\n\nIf you throw AI at a problem, bias can be created. We’ve built this model by inputting specific data and criteria and examining what’s happening with the AI output. 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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.\n\n# 👋 The Origin Story\n\nI've shared my personal struggle with traditional interviews on [HackerNews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20578850) and how I’ve never been great at \"performing\" on the spot.\n\nThis summarizes well what our mission has always been: _“Mainstream hiring processes are biased towards those who went to great schools, had high GPAs, are native-English speaking, have worked at brand name companies, are extroverts and great networkers, etc. But there are so many talented people who don't fit that profile. We're excited to work on ways of hiring that give them a better chance.”_\n\nOver time, we realized the challenge in solving this issue lies in the fact that companies lack incentives to improve their processes unless it saves them money or time.\n\nThus, Hatchways is on a mission to make talent discovery efficient yet fair. By streamlining skill evaluations, we help companies save time while hiring top talent with the right skills for the job, rather than focusing on pedigree, connections, or interview prowess.\n\n# 🤔**The Problem: Inefficient Interviewing**\n\nMany companies struggle with inefficient interviewing— spending too much time while not getting quality signal.\n\nAlthough creating a unique process is time-consuming, mimicking FAANG approaches, which most companies do, leads to inaccurate signal, a lot of wasted engineering hours, and increased competition for the same talent pool.\n\n# 💡**The Solution: Design a Purposeful Interview Experience**\n\nHatchways enables you to develop an effective interview process, ensuring accurate signal capture, time savings for engineers, and a positive candidate experience.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71240&key=user_uploads/321746/b44f8b5f-fbf0-4990-a37e-67afc3768fc5)\n\n# 🦄 **How it works:**\n\n* **Adopt Best Practices from Leading Tech Companies, and Tailor to your Needs:** We've distilled best practices from tech leaders at Dropbox, Plaid, and Airtable (e.g., crafting rubrics, enhancing candidate experience, setting pass-through rates) and can easily customize them for your company, role, and specific hiring needs.\n* **Custom Rubrics and Tailored Interview Questions:** Most companies introduce interviewing rubrics too late. 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Previously co-founded VideoCrisp in Dublin - a cloud-based video creation platform recognised as one of the world's top 50 startups, featured in PBS and Silicon Republic. Also built Waybiz, a B2B trust marketplace spanning 80,000+ businesses across 110 countries. Holds a B.Tech from IIT Delhi and an MBA from UCD Smurfit Business School. Invited to the U.S. International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). Passionate about AI, startups & building globally.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinavchugh/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/abhichugh", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6837d89fbaf16397dc902f9efc2a423a2ea983cb.jpg" }, { "user_id": 551, "full_name": "Alagu M", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Alagu is Co-Founder at Peoplebox. Previously co-founded Askmile, India's popular online relationship counseling platform, and Markupwand (YCS22) a PSD to HTML software. Before founding, he led product at Practo driving 1M+ app downloads and expansion to 10 countries. Holds an engineering degree from NIT Trichy. Passionate about AI, badminton, yoga and Sushi.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alagu2/", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/alagu", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/649a049547a0bb38bf536966a8e7be6e558807ac.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 95916, "title": "Nova: The world’s most human-like AI interviewer", "tagline": "Never screen a resume or do a first-round interview manually", "body": "**TL;DR:** [Nova](https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova?utm_source=yc_launch&utm_campaign=yc_post) speeds up your hiring by automating resume screening, interviews, live coding, and instant decision-ready reports - with the most human-like AI.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D6qJRYV2Qc\n\n---\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nYou open your ATS. 300 applicants.\n\nYou start screening. After 10 resumes, everything looks identical.\n\nYou move to interviews.\n\nNo-shows. Rambling candidates. Zero panel bandwidth.\n\nAnd when interviews _do_ happen, **90% get rejected**, wasting everyone’s time.\n\nHiring shouldn’t mean spending most of your time on candidates who are **not a fit**.\n\n---\n\n## **Meet Nova: the digital twin of your best recruiter & interviewer**\n\nNova is really the digital twin of your best recruiter and interviewer, available 24/7.\n\nShe -\n\n1. screens candidates,\n2. makes sourcing calls & outreach,\n3. runs full voice/video interviews (with advance proctoring)\n4. do interactive coding round like an expert engineer\n5. provide detailed report with recommendation\n\nHere’s a real snippet of her interviewing a tech candidate:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/jNqugi34uOU?si=WyrdbA9V1gu9thF6\n\nNova takes over your **whole Level-1 process** so you can only focus on highly vetted candidates\n\nAnd she doesn’t stop there.\n\nShe also finds candidates for you, reaches out via InMails, email sequences, and even phone calls and books the first-round interview directly with herself 😉\n\nInbound, outbound, or referral, Nova owns everything until you receive a detailed, **decision-ready report** for every candidate, without spending a single minute. 👇\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95916&key=user_uploads/213135/784f0317-e896-4f96-87b1-fe4dfc08d939)\n\n\\\nAnd **candidates love it**. Here’s what they say 😄\n\n> I was immensely impressed with the kind of questions and the way the tool responded!\n\nLeo Parker, DevOps Engineer\n\n> The AI voice was quite friendly and human like, which really helped in setting the environment. For example, the pauses and use of ‘Uh’s made feel very natural.\n\nIsabella, Software Architect\n\n---\n\n## **How Nova screens like your best Interviewer?**\n\nAll you need to get started is give her the JD but **you control everything**:\n\n**Skills, depth, difficulty**, interview type, tone, and structure.\n\nNova makes the screening process exactly how you want it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95916&key=user_uploads/213135/23d75b86-2360-4c0d-a7a6-95ba6a363884)\n\nAnd she gets smarter.\n\nNova learns from your company’s own data: job descriptions, past interviews, ATS notes, performance signals, employee lifecycle insights.\n\nShe turns all of that into **hiring insights** and screen with the judgment of your best people.\n\n## The Impact\n\nMost customers have reduced time-to-first-interview report from **4–5 weeks to under 48 hours**.\n\nHere’s what Sprinto, a hyper-growth SaaS startup had to say\n\n> Nova has been a game changer for our recruitment operations over the last six months. We initially started using it to automate resume screening and shortlisting, and the difference was visible almost immediately. \\\n> \\\n> What used to take hours of manual effort now happens with remarkable accuracy and consistency.\n>\n> Just for the first-round screening alone, we saved well over 100 hours of recruiter time, and that time was redirected toward more meaningful work.”\n>\n> **Shankar Singh, Head of Recruitment, Sprinto**\n\n## **Use Nova to hire your next best talent today**\n\nSee how human-like AI can speed up your hiring:\n\n[https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova](https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova?utm_source=yc_launch&utm_campaign=yc_post)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ox2-nova-the-world-s-most-human-like-ai-interviewer", "votes": 47, "created_at": "2025-12-02T15:44:19.920Z" }, { "id": 64863, "title": "🚀 Peoplebox - OKR & performance platform for hypergrowth companies", "tagline": "A single dashboard to track all strategic goals, initiatives and red-flags, in real-time", "body": "**TL;DR:** [**Peoplebox**](https://peoplebox.ai/) **solves the biggest problems of scaling companies - Misaligned teams and Poor Execution Speed. We do this by integrating with all your work tools, bringing every cross-aligned goal in one single dashboard to identify red flags on time.**\n\nHowdy, Everyone!\n\nWe are [@Abhinav Chugh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinavchugh/) and [@Alagu M](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alagu2/), founders of Peoplebox, an OKR platform that makes it easy for growing companies to align their teams and execute faster.\n\nIt serves as a source of truth for all your strategic goals and initiatives to align your teams and identify red flags early **without the friction of new software.**\n\nWe are currently helping many companies, including **Razorpay (W15), Disney, Postman, Exotel, Khatabook (S18), StayQrious (W20)** achieve faster business results.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nAs companies grow, they find it difficult to execute their strategy with the same speed as before due to misalignment and lack of cross-functional visibility. OKRs solve this problem, but they are hard to implement.\n\nIn fact, 7 out of 10 OKRs implementations fail, and no 1 reason is: **Set and Forget**.\n\nToday,\n\n* OKRs are written in spreadsheets\n* Metrics are tracked in BI tools\n* But MBRs (Monthly Business Reviews)/ QBRs are done in Powerpoints.\n\n## **✨ What makes Peoplebox different?**\n\nPeoplebox integrates with all your work tools (SQL, Jira, Hubspot, Asana, Slack etc) to make real-time goal tracking and business reviews **magically easy**.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/4PtJRPu4p_gt7Jzwxsz_fZ_CxxnHy7ip2_uaUdDMzhgkEy2aU5YuPiz7RBsSTejZP01lVKw9fpPnEouw4KDiuv2AMcUz3u4q4qTMD0xUMcLHG8TFd50aoztjPcan8j1PxX1vxAGHGLibmjKGvxspvAw)\n\nIt aligns and tracks all your strategic priorities, goals & initiatives in one place. This help identifies red flags early and makes timely corrections.\n\nIn addition, your business reviews are structured and super effective, ensuring that\n\n1. It happens on the same place where OKRs are set so you never miss talking about it.\n2. Plug data, narratives, screenshots and media easily.\n3. Can run structured reviews through templates, notes, and action items\n4. Takes a few hours instead of days to prepare for reviews because of automated updates of goals and initiatives\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9P-49NV7lpW0inlxEhtDD8KeEA1tlMrN8ogGT9VyS18s-E0pYouj0RVwi97N1SUuOxLsDWvhlBT_RWGVWfN6ZSJapDgdbtDesIVTuEt1wceLgO_UJvBtou3OgrhRiEB4pgm3_AKZKCrr-VatmYcEbaw)\n\nIt is also deeply integrated with Slack to make it super easy for teams to update OKRs progress and tag people to start a conversation and fix the issues instead of waiting for review meetings.\n\n**In addition, Peoplebox also lets you**\n\n* Run your performance reviews cycle entirely only Slack\n* Do effective and actionable 1:1s to build high-performing teams\n* Run automated pulse and engagement surveys to be on top of your culture\n\n### **Who are we, and why are we building this?**\n\nWe are techies turned product guys, having built our first startups in Dublin, Ireland, and SF (YC S12) respectively. We joined [Practo](https://www.practo.com/), one of Asia’s largest health-tech startups, when it had 250 employees and saw it grow to 3,000 in just a couple of years.\n\nWe witnessed the challenges of hypergrowth companies first-hand. We realized as companies grow, the problems of misalignment and lack of cross-functional visibility only becomes larger, resulting in poor execution speed, missed goals, high talent turnover, and sometimes death.\n\nOur vision at Peoplebox is to become the Operating System for strategy execution to help companies align and achieve moonshot goals.\n\n# **🎁 Let’s talk**\n\nIf you are using OKRs or planning to use them, please [check us out](https://www.peoplebox.ai/) and book a demo to see how Peoplebox can help you implement it successfully and accelerate your business growth.\n\nAbhi and Alagu\\\n[www.peoplebox.ai](http://www.peoplebox.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GsB-peoplebox-okr-performance-platform-for-hypergrowth-companies", "votes": 49, "created_at": "2022-07-25T17:02:31.738Z" } ] }, { "id": 28863, "name": "Serra", "slug": "serra", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/de1a90717852abf9734482354e7229c962c19089.png", "website": "https://www.serra.io/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Serra is an AI recruiter that fully automates candidate sourcing and outreach, finding ideal talent from LinkedIn, GitHub, Crunchbase, and your ATS. 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Former Data Engineer at Disney+. UCLA Stats + Data Science.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/alanhlwang", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5d5e8e535f08b4b0844dc4bfc4e16d1c99f22353.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94993, "title": "Serra — The AI Recruiter That Hires Through Your Network", "tagline": "Find the best talent in your team's network and outside of it. ", "body": "Hey YC community! 👋 We’re the cofounders of [Serra](https://serra.io/) — an AI recruiting agent that automates sourcing, outreach, and warm introductions through your team’s network.\n\nCompanies like Waymo, Verkada and Replit use Serra to skip manual sourcing and get qualified interviews straight on their calendar.\n\nTell your agents who you’re looking for, and Serra will use your team’s combined network, LinkedIn, Github, and Crunchbase to find the right people and who can intro you to them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94993&key=user_uploads/1241137/3894ace7-4e45-4e49-b12e-ed243d06f2ef)\n\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94993&key=user_uploads/1241137/9a73d72e-2304-4235-bafa-faa179b7b35e)\n\n\n### **Why we built it**\n\nRecruiters and founders spend most of their week manually searching LinkedIn, sending cold messages, and juggling tools.\n\nEvery company already knows thousands of great candidates through its employees—but that data just sits unused.\n\nSerra combines **outbound search** + **your team’s connections** to find warm paths to the best talent.\n\nIt drafts personalized outreach, tracks replies, and books interviews automatically.\n\n---\n\n### **What’s happened so far**\n\n* Serra has made hires for \\~100 companies like Replit, Verkada, and EquipmentShare\n* 5–10× higher reply rates on warm intros vs. cold outreach\n* Average recruiter saves 15 hours per role\n\n### **What’s next**\n\nWe’re expanding our **AI Referral Network** so that every recruiter and employee in a company contributes to a shared warm graph.\n\nThat means smarter recommendations, faster hires, and a compounding network effect with every new user.\n\nIf you’re a founder or recruiter who’s tired of cold sourcing, give Serra a try: https://serra.io/contact", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oi9-serra-the-ai-recruiter-that-hires-through-your-network", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2025-10-29T03:19:26.500Z" }, { "id": 89379, "title": "Serra 🧑‍🏫 Your 24/7 AI Recruiter", "tagline": "Serra is your AI-powered recruiting assistant that sources and engages ideal candidates nonstop, letting your team focus on hiring—not searching.", "body": "Hey YC community 👋\n\n[Alan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanhlwang/) and [Albert](https://www.linkedin.com/in/albertjstanley/) here! We're excited to introduce Serra—the fully autonomous AI Recruiter that transforms how startups find and engage talent.\n\n**🚀 TL;DR**\\\nSerra autonomously handles your candidate sourcing 24/7. It identifies, evaluates, and engages top-tier talent so your recruiting team can focus on meaningful human interactions.\n\n📺 **See Serra in action:** \n\n**❌ The Problem**\\\nTalent sourcing today is still manual, inefficient, and repetitive. Recruiters spend countless hours creating Boolean search strings, sifting through profiles, and handling outreach manually—taking precious time away from meaningful interactions. This slows down hiring, increases costs, and risks missing top candidates.\n\n**🤖 Our Solution**\\\nSerra is your AI-powered sourcing partner, working around the clock to:\n\n* **Find ideal candidates** across LinkedIn, GitHub, and your ATS.\n* **Automatically review and shortlist** candidates by precisely matching your criteria.\n* **Engage proactively** via personalized, automated outreach sequences directly through LinkedIn and email.\n* **Continuously source** new talent, keeping your pipeline fresh without manual effort.\n\nSerra ensures your recruiting team spends their valuable time engaging and hiring the best candidates—not searching databases.\n\n**🛠️ How It Works**\\\nSimply talk or type your hiring criteria into Serra:\n\n> \"Hi Serra, find me a technical Head of Product at Series B-D startups, preferably with co-founding experience and recent promotions.\"\n\nSerra clarifies any additional details, conducts exhaustive searches, vets profiles automatically, and starts personalized candidate outreach—all autonomously.\n\n**📖 Our Story**\\\nWe built Serra after talking to dozens of YC founders experiencing firsthand the pain of inefficient sourcing in high-growth startups. The goal became very simple: help companies build better teams, faster.\n\n**🎯 Our Ask**\n\n* **Are you hiring or scaling your team?** We’d love you to try Serra firsthand. Visit [serra.io](http://serra.io/) and mention YC for priority onboarding.\n* **Know someone who could benefit from automated sourcing?** Introductions are greatly appreciated!\n\n👉 **Reach out directly:** [founders@serra.io](mailto:founders@serra.io)\n\nLet Serra handle the heavy lifting so your team can focus on what matters most—your people. Excited to hear your thoughts!\n\nCheers, \\\nThe Serra Team", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NFb-serra-your-24-7-ai-recruiter", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2025-04-10T16:44:46.577Z" }, { "id": 83930, "title": "Serra — Find the best talent using AI", "tagline": "AI search engine to find the best talent to hire", "body": "**✅ Value-Prop:**\n\nCutting down time to hire + increasing quality of candidates top-of-funnel. Try us out at cloud.serra.io.\n\n**TLDR;**\n\nInstead of manually selecting keywords and reviewing candidates one by one, recruiters can search in plain English on Serra and instantly see the best matches, with all their research done for them. Serra now has \\~1 billion candidates in their database, emails and phone numbers included. Watch our demo [here.](https://youtu.be/KWGNcVFMH_k)\n\n---\n\n---\n\n—\n\nHey everybody! We’re Alan and Albert, and we built Serra to speed up time- and increase quality-of-hire for founders and recruiters. We reached out to dozens of founders at Series A and B YC companies and found that hiring the right people, faster, was a recurring painpoint.\n\n**❌ Problem:**\n\nHiring requires sorting through hundreds of resumes, reaching out to dozens of candidates, and buying expensive search licenses that still rely on outdated keyword matching. Candidates can game ATS filters by stuffing their profiles with keywords. This wastes months of time and money, often leading to poor hires and this cycle repeating itself.\n\n**✅ Solution:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83930&key=user_uploads/1241137/27d9b45c-baa7-432c-a325-bb145e9d9c3d)\n\nSerra is a vector-based search engine that focuses on understanding the context of each profile. It delivers more accurate matches based on what you actually asked for rather than relying on exact keyword matches. Serra utilizes LLMs to rank and research millions of candidates simultaneously.\n\nSerra fact-checks what candidates put on their profiles—if a candidate claims they have experience in training and deploying machine learning models in production, Serra checks GitHub for tangible evidence.\n\nSerra can also hook up directly to your ATS, allowing you to apply the same search benefits to candidates inside of it.\n\n**❓Ask from us:**\n\nTry us out with 2 free searches at [cloud.serra.io](http://cloud.serra.io)!\n\nFor founders aggressively hiring and looking to source better talent faster, book a demo [here](https://calendar.app.google/ZiqkQL11E458DAV8A) or drop us a note at [alan@serra.io](mailto:alan@serra.io)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lpi-serra-find-the-best-talent-using-ai", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2024-09-11T04:01:03.076Z" }, { "id": 82024, "title": "🔍 Serra: AI-powered candidate search", "tagline": "Search engine for recruiters to find best-fit candidates.", "body": "**tldr;** [Serra](https://www.serra.io/) is an AI-driven search engine for recruiters to find best-fit candidates, both within their ATS and outside of it. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82024&key=user_uploads/1241137/9b4c6415-ec10-49a2-9543-f352447ab2bb)\n\nHi everyone, 👋 [Alan](https://linkedin.com/in/alanhlwang) and [Albert](https://linkedin.com/in/albertjstanley) here—we’re best friends from UCLA and co-founders of Serra!\n\n### **⛔️ The Problem**\n\nIdentifying best-fit candidates, both inbound and outbound, is time-consuming, manual work for recruiters.\n\nThis leads to longer hiring times, missed opportunities, and suboptimal hiring decisions.\n\n### **✅ Our Solution**\n\nSerra is a search engine for recruiters to find the best-fit inbound and outbound candidates.\n\nConnected to your ATS and external candidate sources, recruiters can search “B2B sales reps that have managed key enterprise accounts” and see top matches.\n\nSerra improves on keyword matching by understanding the context of candidates' profiles, ensuring you receive the most accurate results.\n\n**Key Features:**\n\n* **🔦 Analyze Inbound Applicants**: Uses vector search, GPT to sift through thousands of applications in your ATS for signal.\n* **🔍 Conduct Outbound Searches**: Scans external candidate databases to find profiles that match specific job requirements.\n* **🚚 Deliver Actionable Insights**: Get ranked candidate results, classify candidates, and automate pre-screening Q&A collection.\n* **📊 Visualize Results:** Get dashboards that track hiring efficiency, candidate engagement, and long-term employee performance.\n\n### **❓Our Ask**\n\nDrowning in inbound applications? Looking to speed up your hiring times while maintaining the quality of hires? Try out Serra to improve the quality and speed of candidates entering your recruitment funnel. Here's how you can get started:\n\n* **Demo and Consultation**: If you’re a startup that’s hiring and want a demo or wish to discuss your recruitment needs further, please book a call with us [here](https://calendar.app.google/b8ytpup7wg3EpgAX7) or shoot me an email at [alan@serra.io](mailto:alan@serra.io)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LKy-serra-ai-powered-candidate-search", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2024-07-10T14:03:16.813Z" }, { "id": 73883, "title": "🔹Serra - Simplify SQL with one command", "tagline": "SQL to PySpark Translator", "body": "**tl;dr:** never deal with unintuitive 1000+ line SQL scripts again. [Serra](https://github.com/Serra-Technologies/serra) simplifies SQL into modular PySpark objects that are much faster to run, reuse, and debug. Check out our repo [here](https://github.com/Serra-Technologies/serra)!\n\nHey everyone! We’re back again to announce the open-source launch of Serra—never deal with unintuitive 1000+ line SQL scripts again.\n\nWe’re also launching the beta of our translate feature with a free week trial! Get an easy starting point/suggestion for simplifying your SQL scripts into PySpark objects by running _serra translate your_script.sql_.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73883&key=user_uploads/1241137/65845ad3-4950-4357-a32b-dcd33981816f)\n\n### **❌ Problem:**\n\nSQL scripts are huge, messy, and hard to debug. Declarative, monolithic SQL gets overwhelming quickly for data analysts, scientists, and engineers—leading to huge time sinks and data outages.\n\n### **😌 How do we solve it?**\n\nWe’re a low-code ETL framework that simplifies SQL into modular PySpark objects that are much faster to run, reuse, and debug. Think end-to-end dbt with the benefits of object-oriented Spark!\n\nWe wrap all of this into a command-line tool that allows you to create your own PySpark jobs, run them locally, and simplify your SQL scripts to PySpark.\n\n### **👏 The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73883&key=user_uploads/1241137/f1469834-d630-417d-942a-c9efec1a8e0d)\n\n[Alan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanhlwang/) and [Albert](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true&heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAABvJV34B9Kn2x938wSRljsdtR_Vu8-sNKUg&keywords=albert%20stanley&origin=RICH_QUERY_TYPEAHEAD_HISTORY&position=0&searchId=2590d498-3822-4c87-904c-47bec49bccd6&sid=DN6) are best friends from middle school Algebra. Alan is an ex-Data Engineer at Disney+ and a Statistics & Data Science alum from UCLA. Albert is an ex-Software Engineer at Amazon Alexa and a UCLA Master’s graduate in Computer Science.\n\n### **Asks:**\n\n* Check out (and star 🤩) the repo: \n* Intros to any companies struggling with their SQL/data workflow—we’ll help retool their data workflow! Email us at [founders@serra.io](mailto:founders@serra.io).\n* Try it out yourself by doing a pip install of serra! For setup help feel free to reach out—make sure you have python >= 3.10 installed!).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JDf-serra-simplify-sql-with-one-command", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2023-08-07T21:28:44.592Z" }, { "id": 73132, "title": "🔹 Serra - Low-code, modular SQL", "tagline": "Python-based dbt alternative", "body": "**tl;dr:** [Serra](https://www.serra.io) takes a 200-line SQL script and reduces it to a few lines of code. Serra simplifies complex pipeline logic with reusable testable objects, saving hours of development and maintenance time.\n\nHi everyone! We’re Alan and Albert, the best friends behind Serra. We want to simplify ETL so that even your dad (👨🏻) can maintain a data pipeline.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73132&key=user_uploads/1241137/e069458b-6108-48e2-b2b2-33304afc6880)\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nCompanies spend **$520K** annually building and maintaining data pipelines.\n\nData engineers spend **44% of their time** fixing pipelines that inevitably crash.\n\n> **12 data engineers** \\* **$98K salary** \\* **44% of their time** = **$520K** ([Fivetran](https://get.fivetran.com/rs/353-UTB-444/images/2021-CDL-Wakefield-Research.pdf))\n\nSo why do data pipelines crash and burn?\n\n* Complex scripts\n* Limited alerting, debugging\n* Inadequate testing\n\nAll of these make data pipelines a nightmare to fix, especially at 3am.\n\n## **✨ Our Solution**\n\n**Serra is a python-based DBT alternative that takes a 200-line SQL script and reduces it to just a few lines of code.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73132&key=user_uploads/1241137/7eec5a59-66c0-4007-9b22-efd89aa5e2ca)\n\nSerra’s framework emphasizes software engineering best practices like **readability, testability, modularity, and reusability**.\n\nSerra **simplifies** complex SQL scripts to just a few lines of Python code with modular transformers and in-house connectors.\n\nSerra provides **fully-customizable error logging** for every transformer and connector.\n\nWith a command line tool, developers can easily create pipelines, auto document them, **run local tests**, and **run jobs with their favorite data warehouse.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73132&key=user_uploads/1241137/0588746d-9b72-4e91-bc4f-cea9e6eab736)\n\n## **🤔 How are we different from DBT?**\n\nSerra is not tied to SQL and therefore handles all parts of ETL. Serra provides intuitive control flow, more complex transforms with Python, full streaming support, and comprehensive debugging/testing capabilities.\n\n## **👏 The Team**\n\n[Alan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanhlwang/) and [Albert](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true&heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAABvJV34B9Kn2x938wSRljsdtR_Vu8-sNKUg&keywords=albert%20stanley&origin=RICH_QUERY_TYPEAHEAD_HISTORY&position=0&searchId=2590d498-3822-4c87-904c-47bec49bccd6&sid=DN6) are best friends from middle school Algebra. Alan is an ex-Data Engineer at Disney+ and a Statistics & Data Science alum from UCLA. Albert is an ex-Software Engineer at Amazon Alexa and a UCLA Master’s graduate in Computer Science.\n\n## **🙏 Ask**\n\nTry out our live demo [here](https://replit.com/@serra-technologies/SerraDemo) (fork the Replit)!\n\nIf you like what you see, join our [waitlist](https://www.serra.io) and [Discord](https://discord.gg/3VbvqWbE)!\n\nIntros to any data engineers, data leaders, Databricks users, and anyone from companies that are trying to optimize their ETLs would be amazing. Please reach out at [founders@serra.io](mailto:founders@serra.io)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J1Y-serra-low-code-modular-sql", "votes": 52, "created_at": "2023-07-17T14:13:53.699Z" } ] }, { "id": 28976, "name": "Bolto", "slug": "bolto", "former_names": [ "Social Inc.", "Pampas Inc.", "Pampas", "Onnix", "Crew", "Crew AI", "Crew" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bd164a122dacc9defa9cfe1e3478f126b401b963.png", "website": "https://www.bolto.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "AI-powered payroll, hr, and recruiting platform. Hire and scale teams easily in the US and globally.", "one_liner": "AI Powered All-In-One Payroll, HR + Recruiting ", "team_size": 20, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Human Resources", "launched_at": 1691417670, "tags": [ "Recruiting", "HR Tech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Human Resources" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bolto", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/bolto.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/boltohq/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/boltohq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/onnix-d36a", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bd164a122dacc9defa9cfe1e3478f126b401b963.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Pete Koomen", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/pete-koomen" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1123110, "full_name": "Mrinal Singh", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder, CEO @ Bolto", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/mrinalsingh2", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/mrinalsingh02?lang=en", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c472b8da26348dd8e9d8b5f93a7e4eaab551413c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1079248, "full_name": "Jake Johnson", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Former Microsoft PM | Dartmouth Engineering '21 | Seattleite", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jake-johnson-529b57139", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/bb5e67c06c542093e72b1d915905f703662773bc.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 116075, "title": "Design Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bolto/jobs/EqbaElZ-design-engineer", "location": "Seattle, WA, US / San Francisco, CA, US / Chicago, IL, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Design", "role_type": "UI / UX", "salary_range": "$125K - $175K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.15%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [ "CSS", "HTML", "React", "Figma" ] }, { "id": 117527, "title": "Senior AE -> Sales Lead & Future Head of Sales", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bolto/jobs/vqxEQj4-senior-ae-sales-lead-future-head-of-sales", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Seattle, WA, US / Chicago, IL, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$125K - $200K", "equity_range": "0.15% - 0.25%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Bolto raises $12M to build the first AI-native, all-in-one Recruiting, Payroll, and HR system", "url": "https://www.bolto.com/blog/series-a", "date": "Apr 21, 2026" }, { "title": "Bolto Raises $5.1M to Enable You to Build and Manage Your Team in One Place", "url": "https://www.bolto.com/blog/seed-announcement", "date": "Mar 05, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 82005, "title": "Crew AI - AI hiring & HR platform", "tagline": "Hire, pay and manage top pre-vetted software talent globally.", "body": "**TL;DR**\n\n**🔎 We Find Top 1% Global Software Talent:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82005&key=user_uploads/1123110/ae012944-319c-4b87-9080-7979a76c72a2)\n\nWe source the best remote tech talent from big tech and top start-ups. The process is highly rigorous— AI is used to vet candidates technically and create a holistic picture by assessing their public profiles, past projects, and performance on technical assessments. \n\nOur average candidate is an IIT (or global equivalent) grad who has worked at reputable companies and has a history of shipping good code.\n\n**💼 Global HR:**\n\nWe also service the full HR stack - so you can hire candidates as contractors or full-time employees using Crew instantly. Our legal, payroll, and HR teams keep you protected and globally compliant. \n\n![](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/665dcda85f9f2d88cd288899/665ecd5ca9750c3e0fb87e90_GP-Hero-Image.webp)\n\n**🚀 The Founders:**\n\n[Milan - Ex-Palantir AI/ML, Harvard](https://www.linkedin.com/in/milan-bhandari-623979163/)\n\n[Jake - Ex-Microsoft PM, Dartmouth](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-johnson-529b57139/)\n\n[Mrinal - Ex-Lazard IB, Dartmouth](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrinalsingh2/)\n\nAt our last start-up, we realized how difficult it was to find high-quality developers, pay them effortlessly, and manage global compliance. Crew AI is the platform and service we wish we had while building!\n\n**🤝 Quality Matters in Hiring!**\n\nWe know from experience that top hires can supercharge your company and propel it further. We’re hyper-focused on getting you the best bang for your buck. Our vetting process is:\n\n1. Rigorous resume and background screen for key success indicators\n2. Extended technical interviews and case studies\n3. AI behavioral interview and English fluency checks\n4. Professionalism training\n5. Final human-led vetting\n\n![](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/665dcda85f9f2d88cd288899/665f43639b41ab6cf17052a2_HIW%20Item%204%20-%20Image.webp)\n\n**Our Ask!**\n\nBuild your Crew! If you or anyone you know is hiring developers - please send them our way! Our website is [www.trycrew.ai,](http://www.trycrew.ai) and we can be reached at [info@trycrew.ai](mailto:info@trycrew.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LKf-crew-ai-ai-hiring-hr-platform", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2024-07-09T16:45:42.297Z" } ] }, { "id": 29074, "name": "Fiber AI", "slug": "fiber-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e7118ffc006ccecf44fec5c8d5c5268024216181.png", "website": "https://www.fiber.ai/apis", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Fiber AI is the freshest data APIs for AI sales, recruiting, & growth products, with the freshest data on 40M+ companies, 850M+ people, and 30M+ jobs.\r\n\r\nYou can search live company, people, and jobs data via APIs and webhooks for 10x cheaper than People Data Labs, Explorium, Cognism, CoreSignal, and others. We have verified emails and phone numbers for 4x cheaper than Clay, Apollo, and ZoomInfo.\r\n\r\nWe've helped enterprises like HubSpot, Agent AI, Ramp, and Docusign, as well as fast-growing startups like Flatfile, Karat, Centralize, and Fonzi, get the data they need to build novel AI sales, marketing, and recruiting products with differentiated features – for a fraction of the cost of other data vendors.\r\n\r\nOur Bulk API Search lets builders integrate uncapped, advanced API searches deeply into their product. Search through 40M+ companies, 850M+ people, and 30M+ jobs with advanced filtering for 10x cheaper than People Data Labs, Crustdata, Cognism, and others.\r\n\r\nAPI endpoints nobody else has. We have novel API endpoints that you won't find on People Data Labs, Cognism, Crustdata, Explorium, or anywhere else, to:\r\n\r\n- Reverse lookup a work/personal email to a person\r\n- Search for a person/company using partial or incomplete information\r\n- Let AI agents build comprehensive prospect lists from 100+ data sources\r\n- Fetch real-time LinkedIn company and people information\r\n\r\nFiber AI's APIs have been live for 3+ years, and we've helped 100s of enterprises and startups rip and replace their data providers.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\nFor more details:\r\n\r\nFiber AI is a B2B data API provider and data broker for AI sales tools, AI recruiting platforms, AI marketing products, and growth teams.\r\n\r\nWe offer data APIs, data feeds, bulk API search, REST API, and webhooks across 40M+ companies, 850M+ people, and 30M+ jobs – for 10x cheaper than People Data Labs, Crustdata, CoreSignal, Cognism, Bright Data (BrightData), Live Data (LiveData), Explorium, Seamless.ai, Seamless AI, RocketReach, Kaspr, Snov.io, Snov, Uplead, Lead411, and SalesIntel. We also provide verified emails, verified phones, email data, and phone data for 4x cheaper than Clay, Apollo, ZoomInfo, Hunter, Hunter.io, Lusha, ContactOut, Wiza, LeadMagic, Prospeo, FindyMail, Icypeas, FullEnrich, Datagma, Dropcontact, and LeadIQ.\r\n\r\n- Bulk API search for companies, people, and jobs data (uncapped API searches, search API, company search API, people search API, person API, jobs search API, contact search)\r\n- Email API and emails API (email finder, email lookup, bulk email finder, email address finder, email addresses, work email, work emails, business email, business emails, email list, email database)\r\n- Phone API (phone finder, phone lookup, phone number finder, phone numbers, mobile number, mobile numbers, mobile phone, direct dial, direct dials)\r\n- Reverse email lookup API (email to person, reverse lookup, email enrichment, contact enrichment, lead enrichment, CRM enrichment, enrich)\r\n- Email verification API (email validation, email verification, email deliverability, bounce detection, email bounce)\r\n- Phone verification API (phone validation, phone verification, verified phone, verified phones)\r\n- Contact API and contacts API (contact data, contact lookup, contact finder, contact information, B2B contacts, B2B contact, verified contact, verified contacts)\r\n- Real-time LinkedIn data API (LinkedIn company data, LinkedIn profile data, LinkedIn profiles, LinkedIn scraper, LinkedIn scraping, LinkedIn export, Sales Navigator, Sales Navigator export)\r\n- Company data API (B2B company data, company database, company lookup, company information, firmographic data, firmographics, headcount data, funding data, technographic data, revenue data, intent data)\r\n- People data API (B2B contacts, B2B database, contact database, people database, people lookup, people finder)\r\n- Lead data API (lead, leads, B2B leads, prospect, prospects, lead database, prospect data, lead list, prospect list, contact list)\r\n- Jobs data API (open jobs, hiring signals, job listings data, job postings)\r\n\r\nUse cases:\r\nProduct builders integrate our data APIs to build AI SDR tools, AI SDR, AI BDR, AI BDR tools, SDR tools, BDR tools, SDR software, BDR software, SDRs, BDRs, AI recruiting tools, recruiter tools, recruiters, recruitment software, talent acquisition, talent sourcing, candidate sourcing, candidate data, candidates, hiring tool, sales intelligence products, sales intelligence platform, sales data, sales leads, GTM tools, go-to-market platforms, recruiting pipelines, centralized data platforms, TAM builders, ICP list builders, lead generation software, lead gen, leadgen, demand generation, demand gen, prospecting tools, sales prospecting, outbound sales tools, outbound sales, outreach tool, cold outbound, cold outreach, cold email, cold emails, cold calling, email outbound, email outreach, and account-based marketing (ABM) products.\r\n\r\nWhy teams choose Fiber AI over other data providers and data vendors:\r\n\r\n- 10x cheaper than bulk data providers and data brokers (People Data Labs, Crustdata, CoreSignal, Cognism, Explorium, Clearbit, 6sense, Demandbase, ZoomInfo data, Seamless.ai, RocketReach, Kaspr, Snov.io, Uplead, Lead411, SalesIntel, business data, B2B data, live data, real-time data, fresh data)\r\n- 4x cheaper than contact enrichment tools and email enrichment tools (Clay, Apollo, Hunter.io, Lusha, ContactOut, Wiza, LeadMagic, Prospeo, FindyMail, Icypeas, FullEnrich, Datagma, Dropcontact, LeadIQ, data enrichment, phone enrichment)\r\n- 0% email bounce guarantee – if an email bounces, we refund instantly (no other data vendor or data provider offers this)\r\n- Freshest data and live data feeds: company data updated every 2-3 weeks, jobs data every 2-3 days, people data every 1-2 months\r\n- Novel API endpoints nobody else has: reverse email lookup, email to person lookup, partial/incomplete search, real-time LinkedIn fetching, LinkedIn scraper, AI agent prospect list building\r\n\r\nData coverage:\r\n40M+ B2B companies, 850M+ B2B contacts, 30M+ job listings. B2B database with emails, email addresses, phone numbers, mobile numbers, direct dials, and contact information sourced from 100+ providers including LinkedIn, Crunchbase, BuiltWith, and more.\r\n\r\nWe help AI sales tools, AI recruiting platforms, AI recruiting tools, recruiters, recruitment platforms, sales automation tools, recruiting automation, lead enrichment products, email enrichment tools, phone enrichment services, data enrichment platforms, lead scoring tools, and GTM teams get the B2B data, contact data, email data, phone data, lead data, and prospect data they need via simple, affordable data APIs, data feeds, and webhooks.\r\nWe have B2B company data on 40 million B2B companies and 850 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 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.\r\n\r\nThis is why RevOps, sales, growth, recruiting, and outbound teams choose us to power their AI SDR platforms (examples of these platforms that could use Fiber AI include artisan ai, 11x, amplemarket, reply.io, unify gtm, penguin ai, regie ai, aisdr, artisan sdr, outreach io, and warmly ai - many of these have used or currently use us), 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.", "one_liner": "The freshest data APIs for AI sales, recruiting, & growth products", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1689840885, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "Recruiting", "Sales", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fiber-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/fiber-ai.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/fiberai/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Fiber_AI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e7118ffc006ccecf44fec5c8d5c5268024216181.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1005029, "full_name": "Adi Agashe", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO of Fiber AI. 3-time global bestselling author of \"Swipe to Unlock,\" \"Bubble or Revolution?\", and \"PM's Sacred Seven\" which have been translated into 11 languages. Prev. built a profitable 7-figure e-commerce business, and spent 5 years as a Product Manager at Microsoft growing Azure hybrid revenue. Graduated from Cornell University (computer science) as a Rawlings scholar (top 1.5%).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/adityaagashe", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/AdiAgashe", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4a33b926e351fa0469e8689a5a7bf87ba88c1293.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1006093, "full_name": "Neel Mehta", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Neel is the CTO at Fiber AI and a former APM (later PM) at Google. He is also the three-time bestselling author of \"Swipe to Unlock,\" \"Bubble or Revolution?\", and \"Product Management's Sacred Seven;\" he then built a profitable 7-figure e-commerce business. Neel graduated in the top 5% of his class at Harvard University, where he studied computer science and was a John Harvard Scholar.\n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/neel-a-mehta", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6bdc61df95ef4038572156a71e7bd5d74da2995d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Fiber AI automates sales outreach & scales to $1M+ ARR with Elastic | Elastic Customers", "url": "https://www.elastic.co/customers/fiberai", "date": "Aug 12, 2025" }, { "title": "Meet The 30 Under 30 Marketing & Advertising Class Of 2024—From AI Startups To A Chief TikTok Officer", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmylucas/2023/11/28/meet-the-30-under-30-marketing--advertising-class-of-2024-from-ai-startups-to-a-chief-tiktok-officer/", "date": "Nov 23, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 105590, "title": "🔔 Fiber AI – Track any changes on companies and people", "tagline": "Know the exact moment your ICP hires, launches, switches jobs, raises, or posts.", "body": "## 🏆 TL;DR\n\n[**Fiber AI Trackers**](https://www.fiber.ai/trackers) monitor 40M+ companies and 850M+ people across **45+ tracking rules** and fires an **instant webhook the moment something changes:** revenue growth, new funding round, a key hire for your ICP, a prospect's promotion, a LinkedIn post about a pain point you solve, comments on a competitor’s Twitter/LinkedIn post, etc.\n\nEvery alert has **full context** on what changed, who's involved, and why it matters.\n\nWe're **10x cheaper**, we have **35+ more signals** than competitors, and **don’t charge per seat** or have **no minimums**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105590&key=user_uploads/1005029/72c22730-6e86-4d85-94e8-364c63ec5ece)\n\n**We've helped enterprises like HubSpot, Agent AI, Ramp, and Docusign**, as well as fast-growing startups like Emergent, Exa, Cardinal, Karat, Flatfile, Centralize, and Fonzi, get the data they need to build novel AI sales, marketing, and recruiting flows with differentiated features, all for a fraction of the cost of other data vendors.\n\n**Sign up for free: [https://www.fiber.ai/trackers](https://www.fiber.ai/trackers)**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105590&key=user_uploads/1005029/f297272a-f38c-4064-a881-d5e9876a1ade)\n\n## 🔔 45+ tracking rules — the broadest catalog anywhere\n\n**25+ Company rules:** technologies added, layoffs, HQ/office moves, acquisitions, headcount thresholds & growth, job postings by keyword/function/title, funding rounds, news by keyword, LinkedIn posts/comments/reactions, follower growth.\n\n**23+ People rules:** changed companies, got promoted (or demoted), entered or left stealth, open-to-work toggled, title & certification changes, posts/comments/reactions, posts/comments by keyword, connection & follower milestones\n\nThe majority of these signals are available only Fiber, **no other provider has them.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105590&key=user_uploads/1005029/43a7a2ce-9ff5-4d7d-b8e9-361b5e60e137)\n\n## ⚡ Alerts with full context\n\nEvery alert arrives as clean JSON with the full story: what changed, who's involved, and why it matters. That way, you can store it straight into your CRM, Slack, or your AI sales/recruiting Agents.\n\nWe have built-in retries and deduplication, so you will never miss an update on your ICP, and you can compare against snapshots up to 90 days back to catch slow-building trends.\n\nReceive pushes via webhooks, browse in the in-app dashboard, or pull via REST API.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105590&key=user_uploads/1005029/9d136a76-7874-4027-b36a-87ac371e643a)\n\n## 💸 Simple, transparent pricing\n\nPay only for what you monitor: per entity, per check. **No seats, no minimums.**\n\nThe more you track and the more often you check, the less you pay. See our pricing calculator here: \n\nWe’re **10x cheaper** than others and our people graph is 850M+ which is \\~2-3x larger than competitors.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105590&key=user_uploads/1005029/b1e3ab43-fb41-4f80-a5fe-b147782ea71b)\n\n# **💯 The Team**\n\nAdi Agashe (CEO) & Neel Mehta (CTO) are the 3-time global bestselling authors of \"Swipe to Unlock,\" \"Bubble or Revolution?\", and \"PM's Sacred Seven\" which have been translated into 11 languages. Previously, they were Product Managers at Microsoft and Google.\n\n# **🙏 Ask**\n\n**Please make a warm introduction to a AI sales and recruiting companies and teams that need data APIs! My email is: adi \\[at\\] fiber \\[dot\\] ai and cal: [https://calendly.com/adi-agashe/](https://calendly.com/adi-agashe/)**\n\n**Fiber AI’s APIs [https://www.fiber.ai/apis](https://www.fiber.ai/apis) have** been live for 3+ years, and we’ve **helped 300+ enterprises and startups rip and replace their data providers.**\n\nWe're confident that we'll not only save you money on bulk search and contact data, but also get better data quality than your current data vendors.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105590&key=user_uploads/1005029/e5c2bdc2-8432-448c-b4a5-42f710a9af38)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RT4-fiber-ai-track-any-changes-on-companies-and-people", "votes": 894, "created_at": "2026-07-13T16:41:31.954Z" }, { "id": 96929, "title": "🌿 Fiber AI – Freshest data APIs for AI sales, recruiting, & growth products.", "tagline": "Replace multiple API data vendors.", "body": "# 🏆 **TL;DR**\n\n[**Fiber AI**](https://www.fiber.ai/apis) is a comprehensive data provider with the freshest data on **40M+ companies, 850M+ people, and 30M+ jobs.**\n\nYou can search live company, people, and jobs data via APIs and webhooks for **10x cheaper** than People Data Labs, Explorium, Cognism, CoreSignal, & others. We have verified emails & phones for **4x cheaper** than Clay, Apollo, and ZoomInfo.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96929&key=user_uploads/1005029/ed50d4fa-91d6-48da-99d4-9c2ff640f340)\n\n**We've helped enterprises like HubSpot, Agent AI, Ramp, and Docusign**, as well as fast-growing startups like Flatfile, Karat, Centralize, and Fonzi, get the data they need to build novel AI sales, marketing, and recruiting flows with differentiated features – for a fraction of the cost of other data vendors.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96929&key=user_uploads/1005029/e184a0f3-ccdd-4435-aa47-219255d6db86)\n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\n**Data providers force you to pay for data you don't need.** Existing data providers like People Data Labs, CoreSignal, Cognism, and Crustdata sell you bulk data for $20,000—$40,000+ per month.\n\n**Product builders want to make uncapped API searches** to integrate company, jobs, and people data seamlessly into their products. They don't want to aggregate bulk datasets, clean the data, and recreate an entire search experience.\n\n**Contact data is expensive and data quality is bad.** You pay premium prices to get outdated emails and disconnected phone numbers. The lack of data verification means you suffer from high bounce rates.\n\n# 🌟 Our Solution\n\n**Bulk API Search lets builders integrate _uncapped_, advanced API searches deeply into their product.** Search through 40M+ companies, 850M+ people, and 30M+ jobs with advanced filtering for **10x cheaper** than People Data Labs, Crustdata, Cognism, and others.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96929&key=user_uploads/1005029/40fd45de-1806-4db9-ab4b-99cbebbaee5e)\n\n**API endpoints nobody else has.** We have novel API endpoints that you won’t find on People Data Labs, Cognism, Crustdata, Explorium, or anywhere else, to:\n\n* reverse lookup a work/personal email to a person\n* search for a person/company using partial or incomplete information\n* let AI agents build comprehensive prospect lists from 100+ data sources\n* fetch real-time LinkedIn company and people information\n* and many more\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96929&key=user_uploads/1005029/1430bd26-2f83-4863-94e4-e5531d122988)\n\n# **💯 The Team**\n\nAdi Agashe (CEO) & Neel Mehta (CTO) are the 3-time global bestselling authors of \"Swipe to Unlock,\" \"Bubble or Revolution?\", and \"PM's Sacred Seven\" which have been translated into 11 languages. Previously, they were Product Managers at Microsoft and Google.\n\n# **🙏 Ask**\n\n**Please make a warm introduction to a AI sales, recruiting, marketing, & gtm teams that need data APIs! My email is: adi \\[at\\] fiber \\[dot\\] ai and cal: [https://calendly.com/adi-agashe/](https://calendly.com/adi-agashe/)** \n\n**Fiber AI’s APIs [https://www.fiber.ai/apis](https://www.fiber.ai/apis) have** been live for 3+ years, and we’ve **helped 100s of enterprises and startups rip and replace their data providers.**\n\nWe're confident that we'll not only save you money on bulk search and contact data, but also get better data quality than your current data vendors.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96929&key=user_uploads/1005029/fcdb4355-c8b4-48e6-9393-ff9ce37d4ef6)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PDN-fiber-ai-freshest-data-apis-for-ai-sales-recruiting-growth-products", "votes": 1049, "created_at": "2026-01-19T16:28:32.204Z" }, { "id": 92385, "title": "🤝 Fiber AI - Verified phones & emails 4x cheaper than Clay. Better search than LinkedIn.", "tagline": "Highest quality data provider for sales, marketing, recruiting, & growth teams.", "body": "## **🏆 TL;DR:**\n\n[**Fiber AI**](https://www.fiber.ai/) is a comprehensive email and phone data provider offering verified contact information at **4x lower cost than Clay, Apollo, and ZoomInfo.** We provide better search capabilities than LinkedIn across **40M+ companies, 850M+ people, and 13M+ jobs** with maximum data yield and accuracy.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92385&key=user_uploads/1005029/4265f87e-e642-4751-bdf7-b5a1aa8bb443)\n\n**We’ve helped enterprises like Ramp, Docusign, & Flatfile**, as well as fast-growing startups, get the data they need for sales, marketing, and recruiting at a fraction of the cost. **Our customers have generated millions in pipeline using our data.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92385&key=user_uploads/1005029/2a0c0c27-7ced-47aa-a64b-68656f550206)\n\n## **❌ The Problem**\n\n**Search capabilities are limited.** LinkedIn's search is restrictive and doesn't give you advanced filters for companies, jobs, people. You waste hours navigating different tools just to build a decent prospect list.\n\n**Contact data is expensive and data quality is bad.** You pay premium prices only to get outdated emails, disconnected phone numbers, and incomplete profiles. The lack of data verification means your outreach campaigns suffer from high bounce rates and wasted effort.\n\n## **🌟 Our Solution**\n\n**Superior search across massive datasets.** Search through **40M+ companies, 850M+ people, and 13M+ jobs** with advanced filtering that surpasses LinkedIn's capabilities. Our interface is built for speed and precision, letting you find exactly who you're looking for in seconds.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92385&key=user_uploads/1005029/4bbac56f-22aa-4b2e-9a03-e3f46de1e4c5)\n\n**Maximum yield at 4x lower cost.** Our AI agents continuously update our massive database of 40M+ companies, 850M+ professionals, and 13M+ open job listings, with 100+ premium data sources refreshing tens of thousands of data points every second.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92385&key=user_uploads/1005029/882f9a8d-f315-41cd-b38e-815c8ed0b1c1)\n\n**0% Email Bounce Guarantee.** We run your contacts through industry-optimized waterfalls. With 16+ data providers and validators, we dramatically increase the quality of your contact lists, while still being 80% cheaper than the competition.\n\nIf an email ever bounces, DM us and we'll refund the credit on the spot – no forms, no fuss.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92385&key=user_uploads/1005029/d39ba26b-c50f-4168-8e48-3c8d7f54b4f5)\n\n## **💯 The Team**\n\nAdi Agashe (CEO) & Neel Mehta (CTO) are the 3-time global bestselling authors of \"Swipe to Unlock,\" \"Bubble or Revolution?\", and \"PM's Sacred Seven\" which have been translated into 11 languages. Previously, they were Product Managers at Microsoft and Google.\n\n## **🙏 Ask**\n\n**Please make a warm introduction to a B2B business that needs help building audiences! My email is: adi \\[at\\] fiber \\[dot\\] ai**\n\n**Fiber AI is live and ready to use right now at [https://www.fiber.ai/](https://www.fiber.ai/).** We're confident that we'll not only save you money on contact data, but also help you find better prospects faster than your current process.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O25-fiber-ai-verified-phones-emails-4x-cheaper-than-clay-better-search-than-linkedin", "votes": 1403, "created_at": "2025-07-24T15:42:17.276Z" }, { "id": 73254, "title": "🤝 Fiber AI - Automate SDR and BDR prospecting & outbound sales workflows using AI.", "tagline": "Drive revenue growth faster with AI-powered outbound sales automations", "body": "### **🏆 TL;DR:**\n\n[**Fiber AI**](https://fiber.ai/) **automates SDR and BDR prospecting & outbound sales workflows using AI.** Enterprises choose our AI sales platform because we automatically find prospects, research them, and hyper-personalize outbound messages that get 80% open rates, which is 4x the industry standard.\n\nAs successful 7-figure e-commerce entrepreneurs, we manually hacked together outbound sales automations across several point solutions to scale our last business. In contrast, when we worked at Microsoft and Google, not a single employee touched outbound sales directly—instead, each organization hired different vendors that managed and configured different tools. \n\nWitnessing this firsthand, we’re uniquely positioned to build a platform that automates outbound sales workflows for enterprises. \n\n### **💯 The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73254&key=user_uploads/1005029/331974d7-79bb-4e22-ac12-b3a140007967)\n\n[**Adi Agashe**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityaagashe/) **(CEO)** and [**Neel Mehta**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/neel-a-mehta/) **(CTO)** are the 3-time global bestselling authors of \"[Swipe to Unlock](https://www.amazon.com/Swipe-Unlock-Technology-Business-Strategy/dp/1976182190),\" \"[Bubble or Revolution?](https://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-Bubble-Revolution-Present-Cryptocurrencies-ebook/dp/B07T13GP1Q/)\", and \"[PM's Sacred Seven](https://www.amazon.com/Product-Managements-Sacred-Seven-World-Class/dp/0578740583/)\" which have been translated into 11 languages. They have worked together for the last 8 years and built a profitable 7-figure e-commerce business.\n\nAdi spent 5 years as a growth Product Manager at Microsoft, scaling Azure hybrid revenue. He graduated from Cornell University, where he studied computer science and was a Rawlings scholar (top 1.5%).\n\nNeel was an APM (later PM) at Google, working on Google Search. He graduated in the top 5% of his class at Harvard University, where he studied computer science and was a John Harvard Scholar.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\n**Most businesses’ deliverability rates are horrible.** There are 40+ common pitfalls that land your emails in spam. Founders are not aware of these hazards, which are often technical in nature, and commit blunders that affect their domain and email health long-term.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73254&key=user_uploads/1005029/45cec696-826a-4361-822f-1346e748ddcd)\n\n**Finding relevant prospects is tedious and constantly changing.** When building a lead list, you have to manually gather data from several data sources and figure out triggers to prune this list so that your offer is relevant. Generating quality leads is extremely time-consuming and eats up 40% of a SDR’s time. What’s even more frustrating is that by the time you reach out, your offer may not be relevant anymore since the window of opportunity is often short. \n\n**Writing personalized emails is a massive bottleneck.** Researching each lead and writing highly personalized emails that are going to get opened requires 10 to 20 minutes per email on average. This is not scalable, which is why many businesses blast generic templates, which have horrible open and response rates.\n\n### **🌟 Our Solution**\n\n**Fiber AI manages domain and email health to get 80% open rates.** We automatically configure your DNS records, warm-up your emails, orchestrate emails to send optimally across all of your accounts, run multi-layer email bounce detection, and modify each outgoing email to ensure it doesn’t set off spam filters. \n\n**We automate lead generation with dynamic audiences.** We pull in data from 50+ data providers, including BuiltWith, Crunchbase, LinkedIn, Alexa, and more, so that you can segment your audience precisely by the companies you care about and exclude everyone else. Our audiences are dynamic, which means we will continuously look for prospects matching your targeting and add them to your audience to run our automated outbound sales sequences. Create an audience once, and put your outreach on autopilot.  \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73254&key=user_uploads/1005029/41bb740f-e065-447d-8088-f2e9bc19802b)\n\n**AI-powered hyper-personalized emails to boost response rates.** The biggest debate in sales is choosing between relevancy and personalization—now you don’t have to. We search far and wide to find the “golden nugget” of information to connect with your prospect, and then use GPT-4 to write hyper-personalized email sequences to dramatically increase response rates.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73254&key=user_uploads/1005029/f9bddae2-962d-4cae-8980-cba49bf55c25)\n\n# 🙏 Ask\n\n**If you know a B2B business in your network that’s looking to scale their outbound sales, please make a warm introduction!** **My email is:** **adi \\[at\\] fiber \\[dot\\] ai**\n\n[**Fiber AI**](https://fiber.ai/) **is usable right now**. We’re confident that we’ll not only automate your outbound sales workflows, but also will be able to drive revenue growth faster than your existing process.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J3W-fiber-ai-automate-sdr-and-bdr-prospecting-outbound-sales-workflows-using-ai", "votes": 556, "created_at": "2023-07-20T13:42:44.538Z" } ] }, { "id": 29263, "name": "Alex", "slug": "alex-com", "former_names": [ "Apriora" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/98b76c25c75fac04ce234cc570b0dd988698507a.png", "website": "https://alex.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Alex interviews, screens, and schedules every candidate – over voice, video, and text – so talent teams hire more great people, faster, without adding TA headcount. The recruiter stays in control: every shortlist is approved by a human, and every relationship and offer is owned by the customer's team.\r\n\r\nWe're past 1M+ interviews, integrate with 33+ ATS platforms, and 96% of candidates prefer interviewing with Alex. 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For candidates, we provide an equitable, interactive interviewing experience.\n\n### 📸 Intro\n\nHey all! 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Reach out to [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai).\n2. **Who do you know that’s hiring and could benefit from AI interviewing?** Reach out to [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai).\n\nThe blurb: “My friends are working on a YC company building AI interviewers that conduct real-time video interviews. I think this could be relevant to you, so feel free to check them out and contact [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai) for more.”\n\n### **🤝** The Deal\n\n**Sign up before Demo Day** to get started with our YC Deal. Reach out to [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai) to set up your custom interviewer.\n\n❤️ _Thank you for taking the time to read through this. We’d love to hear your thoughts about what we’re building. 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Import a task repo from GitHub and send an invite link for a take home or an interview. We spin up a cloud workspace for them to work in.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98459&key=user_uploads/979984/e030f7b7-7cf7-4d83-bcd3-402c750994d0)\n\n# ⁉️ Why?\n\nEveryone’s feeling the AGI when it comes to coding. We spoke with over 50 YC teams in the past few weeks, and almost all of them are aggressively using coding agents to build product.\n\nThis naturally means that the skills that differentiate an okay engineer from an amazing one have changed significantly! Teams are no longer hiring for typing out code character by character. Instead, they need ambitious builders who can leverage the latest tools and techniques to achieve in a day what a team of five used to achieve in a week.\n\n* “I usually ask them which agent they are using. 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Over 2,500+ engineers and 15+ companies are using Contrario to get jobs and fill roles.\n\n**_Ask:_** Can you refer talented startup recruiters in your network to join Contrario’s platform? Also, if you’re looking for exceptional talent to hire across GTM or engineering, you can reach out to me at [arya@contrario.ai](mailto:arya@contrario.ai).\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGu7fBLud48 \n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nRecruiting is one of the largest and most influential industries in the world, worth over $2T and employing 60M+ workers per year.\n\nYet, today’s recruiting market still follows outdated, manual processes from 20+ years ago – leaving candidates stuck with a poor job search experience. There are three major pain points: \n\n1. Endless job applications with zero transparency\n2. Low recruiter response rates leaving applicants in the dark\n3. Failing behavioral screens with recruiters\n\nThese challenges compound over time, widening a critical gap in the recruiting market.\n\nUntil now, people relied on referrals and network connections to have a better chance at getting more interviews. But with advancements in AI, this is finally changing … \n\n**✅ Our Solution**\n\nAt Contrario, we’re a team of former candidates, recruiters, and AI experts using the latest technology to build the best candidate experience possible.\n\nCompanies can import their job from an ATS or upload their info, and our system immediately:\n\n* Defines **top recruiters** to work on your role based on past expertise and placement history\n* Uses **proprietary AI models** to dynamically generate **talent scorecards** that capture their top skills.\n* Leverages inbuilt integrations with **ATS systems** like Ashby/Lever and Slack/Calendly for seamless management.\n\nWith Contrario, companies conduct an intake call + upload their most important info for a job, and we handle the rest.\n\n**🙏 Our Ask**\n\nIf you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d love your help:\n\n✅ Hiring GTM talent or engineering talent for your startup?\n\n✅ Know top startup recruiters or agencies looking for additional revenue extension opportunities?\n\n👉 Contact us at [arya@contrario.ai](mailto:arya@contrario.ai) \n\n👬 **The Team**\n\nContrario was founded by Stanford dropouts Arya Marwaha (CEO, ex-BCG, led product at 5+ startups) and Aditya Sood (CTO, ex-NASA NLP, published at Stanford AI Lab x Anthropic). \n\n\\\nThey met in their first-year dorm at Stanford and have been building together ever since. 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These rules are maintained by humans and, given their complexity, even the smallest changes can take up to six months to implement. This lag alone costs banks billions of dollars each year.\n\nAt Tejas AI, we enable banks to harness the power of AI to update their credit rules and other policy documents. Our platform allows banks to update credit rules faster, more frequently, and on a hyper-local level.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMwLWzL_t0M\n\n## **The Team**\n\n* [**Gaurav**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauravluhariwala/) **(CEO):** Led Product & Business at Tartan, scaling revenue 8x in a year by building KYC and data solutions for Indian banks. Previously built and sold a D2C conversion product to 30+ brands—while still in college.\n\n---\n\n## **💥 The Problem**\n\nImagine you’re a risk manager leading a 200-person team at a bank, dealing with:\n\n✅ Millions of loan records scattered across fragmented systems\\\n✅ Constant regulatory changes that impact risk policies\\\n✅ Thousands of credit rules requiring manual interpretation\n\nYour team spends weeks—sometimes months—trying to answer:\n\n> Where are the pockets high risk of loan defaults?”\\\n> “Where all should the bank expand next?\n\nAfter all this effort, you get a handful of incomplete recommendations, leaving you guessing instead of making data-driven decisions.\n\n💸 Banks **lose billions** in missed opportunities, defaults, and penalties.\n\n---\n\n## **🚀 The Solution – Tejas AI**\n\nTejas AI is an AI-powered decision automation platform that gives banks full control over AI-driven risk decisioning—enabling faster decisions, smarter risk management, and scalable growth with confidence.\n\n### **🔹 How It Works**\n\n✅ **Data Ingestion & Policy Input**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88236&key=user_uploads/992401/4452a7c7-f0f1-4aee-bbf3-16e64e598383)\n\n* Banks upload loan records, risk models, and existing policies.\n* Teams set business goals—whether they want stricter lending criteria or aggressive expansion.\n\n✅ **Real-Time Impact Analysis & Recommendations**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88236&key=user_uploads/992401/b9330bb8-7c48-4ad6-b1cb-798c753e4e21)\n\n* AI identifies optimal lending strategies and highlights risk areas—all with full explainability.\n* Teams see the projected impact on key business metrics before making a decision on each of the provided strategy.\n\n✅ **AI-Powered Policy Exploration & Simulation**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88236&key=user_uploads/992401/9de730e3-88aa-49d5-94c1-a5bd0d16df5b)\n\n* Teams run \"What-If\" simulations—testing how changes to risk models will impact loan approvals, risk, and profitability.\n* Users input policy queries in plain English, and AI processes them instantly.\n* The system analyzes borrower behavior, risk factors, and trends to generate optimized policies.\n\n✅ **Automated Policy Execution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88236&key=user_uploads/992401/226c1b55-3622-43b5-b6a8-fc4815445f51)\n\n* Once a policy is finalized, Tejas AI converts it into executable code for their BREs (Business Rule Engines)\n* No manual coding, no integration delays—just instant deployment.\n\n✅ **Continuous Learning & Optimization**\n\n* AI learns from loan performance and market trends to improve recommendations.\n* Banks receive ongoing insights and alerts, keeping risk models adaptive and up-to-date.\n\n---\n\n## **Why This Matters**\n\n⚡ **Faster decisions** – from months to minutes\\\n⚡ **Eliminates manual work** – reducing reliance on large risk teams\\\n⚡ **Hyperlocal lending strategies** – AI-driven, explainable, and data-**backed**\\\n⚡ **Instant deployment** – seamless execution with existing banking systems\n\nWe’re bringing AI-powered decisioning to the banking ecosystem—and we’d love to hear your thoughts! 🚀\n\n### **The Ask – Who We Want to Connect With**\n\nWe’re looking to connect with Fintechs, NBFCs, Banks, and Financial Leaders who want to transform risk decisioning with AI.\n\nPlease introduce us to:\n\n* Risk Managers & Credit Teams\n* Financial Institutions\n\nIf this sounds like you—or if you know someone who’d benefit—let’s talk!\n\n---", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MxA-tejas-ai-ai-powered-risk-decisioning-for-bfsi", "votes": 30, "created_at": "2025-03-04T02:58:44.393Z" } ] }, { "id": 30774, "name": "CLODO", "slug": "clodo", "former_names": [ "Disclodocs", "Clodo" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f11e383f1603855e0c14f84e4d86a8e59ed719ed.png", "website": "https://clodo.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Clodo is the planet's best people discovery. 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From founders in the current batch to GTM teams at the fastest growing AI-era companies, users are setting Clodo loose to find: \n\n“data platform decision makers at companies spending more than $1M/year on data lake reads” \n\n“best targets who will be attending CES“\n\n“AI tool buyers at the top 40 industrial general contractors (ie. fabs/data centers)”\n\n“people who need our product NOW” \n\nTry it out right now at [clodo.ai](https://clodo.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96826&key=user_uploads/353032/080add04-5ee1-4193-addd-2ce4f61a428f)\n\n### **HOW IT WORKS** \n\n**Just from a prompt, Clodo prospects and consolidates signals from everywhere**, be it hiring activity, blogs, social media activity, public records, and so much more **to derive the highest quality lead lists you’ll ever find anywhere.** \n\nProspects that fit your exact criteria. \n\nProspects that want to buy. \n\nContact enrichments included as well. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96826&key=user_uploads/353032/d3f94b5b-f7fa-4c53-956d-f953bb962823)\n\n### **TASTEFUL OUTBOUND ON AUTOPILOT**\n\n**Clodo not only finds you prospects who are willing to listen, Clodo figures out what exactly to say to them.** \n\nIt’s going to be a rough decade for templated sequences. Prospects can tell when they are on the receiving end of a “Hello {{first_name}}, Really impressed by your work as {{job}} at {{company}}”. \n\nInstead, Clodo automatically plans and executes tasteful, personalized outbound campaigns to each prospect all on your behalf. No em dashes, no AI slop prose, just normal sounding emails that lead to better conversion. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96826&key=user_uploads/353032/37caf209-238b-43f3-b04b-d19e283e3cf0)\n\n### **SELLING: A Resolution for 2026**\n\nIn 2026, STOP WASTING TIME sifting through the dozens of tools and websites to find qualified prospects who are actually in need of what you’re selling. And definitely DO NOT BURN CASH on templated “Hello {{first_name}}” sequences to the abyss. \n\nIn 2026, vibe GTM :) \n\nGot a super specific use case in mind or any questions/concerns? We’re at [founders@clodo.ai](mailto:founders@clodo.ai) \\\nHappy to chat more: \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96826&key=user_uploads/353032/f7c45b00-48e9-4701-8be6-8d90878a5611)\n\nHere’s to a great 2026. Happy selling! ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PBi-clodo-vibe-gtm", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2026-01-15T19:55:12.039Z" } ] }, { "id": 30862, "name": "Sorce", "slug": "sorce", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8b7d8d3ea28624898e277427bd19760e45bd0535.png", "website": "https://sorce.jobs", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Tinder for Jobs. 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When you swipe right, our AI agent applies on your behalf on the company's website. It writes cover letters too.\n\nIf you know anyone currently looking for a role, you know it’s really tough. Entering the same information repeatedly on various websites is tedious, and candidates hate it.\n\nA CS student looking for an internship applies to 100-200 openings. In this current job climate, people are applying to even more. Imagine filling out your name and why you want to work at XYZ Company 100 times.\n\nSo far, people like using Sorce. 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