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YC Recruiting and Talent startups

76 Y Combinator companies in Recruiting and Talent, 5 of them from the last four batches. Its share of recent batches is 0.6%, down from 0.8% in the four batches before. About 30% are AI companies by YC’s tags.

Signal
Active
Since 2025
10 vs 4 in 2023–24
Acquired or public
31%
Listed as inactive
22%

Share of each batch

Recruiting and Talent companies as a share of each YC batch since 2015.

Newest entrants

Of 58 Recruiting and Talent companies from batches up to 2021, YC lists 18 as acquired, 0 as public, 27 as active and 13 as inactive.

  • Pluto S26 · LinkedIn for agents
  • Prism X26 · AI-native recruiting agency
  • Saffron X26 · Helping your company find 10x engineers.

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76 companies

  • Pluto

    LinkedIn for agents

    AI
    Summer 2026Recruiting and Talent5San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Prism

    AI-native recruiting agency

    Spring 2026Recruiting and Talent3London, England, United Kingdom
  • Saffron

    Helping your company find 10x engineers.

    Spring 2026Recruiting and Talent3San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Standout

    Agentic hiring marketplace

    Spring 2026Recruiting and Talent7San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Perfectly

    The AI-native Recruiting OS

    Winter 2026Recruiting and Talent4San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Contrario

    AI hiring platform powered by expert recruiters

    AI
    Winter 2025Recruiting and Talent20San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Outship

    Hire amazing engineers by seeing how they use AI

    AI
    Winter 2025Recruiting and Talent3San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Ovlo

    Founder led hiring for London startups

    AI
    Winter 2025Recruiting and Talent2Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Spott

    AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting firms

    AI
    Winter 2025Recruiting and Talent50Leuven, Flanders, Belgium
  • Tweeks.io

    Lovable for Chrome Plugins

    AI
    Winter 2025Recruiting and Talent2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Lightscreen AI

    Voice + video AI interviewer

    Fall 2024Recruiting and Talent2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Alex

    Alex is the AI recruiter for hiring great people.

    AI
    Winter 2024Recruiting and Talent30San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Arcimus

    A stream of engineering candidates who ship.

    AI
    Summer 2023Recruiting and Talent2New York City, NY, USA
  • Serra

    Your 24/7 AI Recruiter

    AI
    Summer 2023Recruiting and Talent8San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Juicebox

    AI Agents for Recruiting

    AI
    Summer 2022Recruiting and Talent100San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Taro

    Help high-growth tech companies hire strong engineers

    Summer 2022Recruiting and Talent6San Francisco, CA, USAAcquired
  • Airwork

    On-demand labour that's actually good

    AI
    Winter 2022Recruiting and Talent4Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Dealls – Jobs & Mentoring

    Indonesia's #1 ATS & Job Portal to match top talents & companies

    Winter 2022Recruiting and Talent127Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Crew

    Next Gen ATS/CRM for Modern Recruitment Agencies

    Summer 2021Recruiting and Talent6Paris, Île-de-France, France
  • Talentdrop

    Your personal hiring page.

    Summer 2021Recruiting and Talent3San Francisco, CA, USAInactive
  • Howdy.com

    We help US tech companies hire and manage software engineers in LATAM

    Winter 2021Recruiting and Talent140Austin, TX, USA
  • Manara

    Connecting top Middle East talent to global tech jobs

    Winter 2021Recruiting and Talent10San Francisco, CA, USA
  • ModernLoop

    ModernLoop helps teams automate and streamline recruiting operations

    Winter 2021Recruiting and Talent15San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Pangea.app

    Hire Fractional Marketing + Design Talent

    AI
    Winter 2021Recruiting and Talent3New York City, NY, USA

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