YC Human Resources startups
83 Y Combinator companies in Human Resources, 2 of them from the last four batches. Its share of recent batches is 0.3%, down from 0.5% in the four batches before. About 19% are AI companies by YC’s tags.
- Signal
- Open
- Since 2025
- 5 vs 6 in 2023–24
- Acquired or public
- 22%
- Listed as inactive
- 24%
Share of each batch
Human Resources companies as a share of each YC batch since 2015.
Newest entrants
Of 59 Human Resources companies from batches up to 2021, YC lists 13 as acquired, 0 as public, 32 as active and 14 as inactive.
- Lantern AI F26 · Turn Your Taste Into Hires
- Spine F26 · We run benefits, payroll & compliance for startups, for free
- Sorce F25 · Tinder for jobs
Building in Human Resources?
Open problems and funding on Questd for future of work.
- Andreessen Horowitz · Big Ideas 2026
- Index Ventures · Investment Focus 2026
- IVP · Investment Focus 2026
- New Enterprise Associates · Investment Focus 2026
Human Resources companies, newest first
83 companies
- Lantern AIAI
Turn Your Taste Into Hires
Fall 2026Human Resources4San Francisco, CA, USA - Spine
We run benefits, payroll & compliance for startups, for free
Fall 2026Human ResourcesSan Francisco, CA, USA - SorceAI
Tinder for jobs
Fall 2025Human Resources6San Francisco, CA, USA - Sira
AI Native Rippling for Deskless Workers
Summer 2025Human Resources4San Francisco, CA, USA - YouShiftAI
The OS for hospital workforce management
Winter 2025Human Resources10New York City, NY, USA - CentralAI
Payroll, benefits, state compliance & other bullsh*t for startups
Summer 2024Human Resources15San Francisco, CA, USAAcquired - FirstWorkAI
Applied AI for workforce operations
Summer 2024Human Resources9San Francisco, CA, USA - Village Labs
Helping America's businesses become employee owned
Summer 2024Human Resources2New York City, NY, USA - malibou
the first all-in-one payroll and HR software for French SMBs
Winter 2024Human Resources2Paris, IDF, France - BoltoAI
AI Powered All-In-One Payroll, HR + Recruiting
Summer 2023Human Resources20San Francisco, CA, USA - Hammr
Rippling for the Construction Industry
Winter 2023Human Resources10San Francisco, CA, USA - Aragorn AI
Operating system for HR in the AI era
Summer 2022Human Resources4Dallas, TX, USA - CompUp
Building a compensation graph to help companies optimise people spend
Summer 2022Human Resources35Bengaluru, KA, India - Disclo
Health disclosure and accommodation management platform
Summer 2022Human Resources10Austin, TX, USA - Peoplebox.aiAI
AI talent platform to hire, manage, and grow your people
Summer 2022Human Resources35Bengaluru, KA, India - Agentnoon
Org design and workforce planning platform to drive org transformation
Winter 2022Human Resources16Toronto, ON, Canada - Complete
The complete way to do compensation
Winter 2022Human Resources5San Francisco, CA, USA - Happl
Your personalised benefits and engagement platform for global teams
Winter 2022Human Resources11London, England, United Kingdom - HumandAI
All-in-one app for internal communication and HR
Winter 2022Human Resources270San Francisco, CA, USA - PeakPath
Smartwatch powered coaching to improve teams sustainable performance
Winter 2022Human Resources9Stockholm, Stockholm County, SwedenInactive - Quan
End-to-end platform to improve wellbeing and team performance.
Winter 2022Human Resources17The Hague, ZH, NetherlandsAcquired - StafBook
Rippling for Southeast Asia
Winter 2022Human Resources11Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia - Talentropy.aiAI
AI solution that streamlines candidate screening and recruitment
Winter 2022Human Resources35Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia - Unsaddl
education benefits and leave of absence management
Winter 2022Human Resources10New York City, NY, USAAcquired
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