Y Combinator

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2005. It has pioneered a new funding model for early-stage startups by investing a modest amount of capital, typically around $150,000, in a large number of companies twice a year. Over a three-month program, Y Combinator collaborates closely with these startups to prepare them for investor pitches and enhance their business strategies. Each funding cycle concludes with Demo Day, where startups present to an exclusive audience of investors. Y Combinator focuses on various sectors, including business software, education, healthcare, and financial technology, among others. In addition to initial funding, it offers ongoing support through its extensive alumni network. Since its inception, Y Combinator has funded over 630 startups, contributing significantly to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Gustaf Alstromer

Group Partner

Matt Bogrand

Associate, YC Continuity Fund

Timothy Brady

Partner

Craig R. Cannon

Director of Marketing

Adora Cheung

Partner

Nic Dardenne

Principal

Aaron Epstein

Group Partner

Brad Flora

Group Partner

Jared Friedman

Managing Director, Software and Group Partner

Aaron Harris

Partner

Carolynn Levy

Partner

Bradford (Brad) Lightcap

Associate, YC Continuity

Kat Manalac

Managing Partner

Eric Migicovsky

Partner

Kirsty Nathoo

Partner

Verena Prescher

Director of Finance

Geoff Ralston

president

Ali Rowghani

Managing Partner

Arnav Sahu

Principal

Michael Seibel

Managing Director

Harj Taggar

Partner

Past deals in Human Resources

Finch

Series A in 2022
Finch develops a software that helps users to access payroll and HR systems. Its software allows admins to connect their company in a compliant and secure manner to applications; integrates across providers enabling developers to access a previously closed system and are at the source of truth for employee data and money flow; and powers use cases across lending, insurance, benefits, FP and A, and HR applications. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Go1

Venture Round in 2022
GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find, consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.

Electry

Seed Round in 2022
PowerUs is a digital career platform for technical blue-collar workers to empower them in their careers and help them find better jobs.

Zen

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Zen provides ergonomic benefits for employees. Zen empowers people to maintain a healthy posture and be productive during work.

Brite

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Brite Benefits is an education platform designed for employee benefits, catering to brokers, benefit providers, and HR teams. The platform assists employees in selecting suitable benefits packages by offering relevant health insurance policies and healthcare plans. Brite Benefits promotes self-guidance and learning among employees, facilitating better decision-making regarding their benefits. By enhancing employees' understanding of available options, the platform helps organizations improve retention rates and foster a sense of loyalty among their workforce.

Zen

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Zen provides ergonomic benefits for employees. Zen empowers people to maintain a healthy posture and be productive during work.

Hypercontext

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Hypercontext helps streamline meetings, goals, and morale into one workflow. It is on a mission to make better managers, helping them juggle their team activities while coaching good management habits.

Onfolk

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Onfolk is a payroll and HR web application API used by employers to process the time-off, pensions, HR, payroll, onboarding, and a suite of integrations.

Zazos

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Zazos is an HR platform that centralizes employee information and automates various human resources processes. It addresses the challenges faced by companies that rely on multiple spreadsheets and systems to manage tasks such as headcount calculations and employee benefits. The platform offers a no-code application development tool that allows startups to create customized people management applications, including employee directories, engagement surveys, onboarding forms, and compensation reports. By streamlining these processes, Zazos enables organizations to manage their employee data more efficiently and effectively.

Go1

Series D in 2021
GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find, consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.

Zoios

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Zoios is a People Analytics platform that helps companies increase wellbeing and performance while keeping employees longer. We do that by collecting and analyzing People Data to provide insights on which groups are highly engaged, too stressed or likely to churn - and which drivers are causing this.

Measure

Seed Round in 2021
Measure provides recruitment solutions and services.

Manara

Seed Round in 2021
We identify and thoroughly vet undiscovered talent. You hire them directly for onsite or remote jobs, diversifying and accelerating your team. Our mission is to accelerate the growth of the Arab tech sector by untapping its human potential. Did you know that 52% of computer science graduates in Palestine are women? Follow us and visit our website to learn more.

BrioHR

Seed Round in 2021
Simple, modular, affordable, and intuitive HR management SaaS that provides end-to-end tools for digitizing and automating all HR processes such as Recruitment & ATS, Onboarding, Performance Management, Leave Management, Payroll, Employee Files, and more. Easy to implement, use, and scale, with live support from our team of experts helping you customize and configure to suit your needs.

Electry

Seed Round in 2021
PowerUs is a digital career platform for technical blue-collar workers to empower them in their careers and help them find better jobs.

Landed

Seed Round in 2021
Landed improves the hiring process for hourly employers and job applicants.

Ontop

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Hire legally anywhere in the world. TOP empowers you to think global. Hire, manage and pay the best talent from any country you can dream of. Taxes, onboarding and payroll for global teams

Finch

Seed Round in 2020
Finch develops a software that helps users to access payroll and HR systems. Its software allows admins to connect their company in a compliant and secure manner to applications; integrates across providers enabling developers to access a previously closed system and are at the source of truth for employee data and money flow; and powers use cases across lending, insurance, benefits, FP and A, and HR applications. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Heru

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Heru builds the a community of gig-economy workers and have a suite of services that help improve their way of life and general well-being. The company's mission is to improve the conditions of independent workers by building, through technology, services, and benefits according to their needs and lifestyle.

Finch

Seed Round in 2020
Finch develops a software that helps users to access payroll and HR systems. Its software allows admins to connect their company in a compliant and secure manner to applications; integrates across providers enabling developers to access a previously closed system and are at the source of truth for employee data and money flow; and powers use cases across lending, insurance, benefits, FP and A, and HR applications. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Electry

Seed Round in 2020
PowerUs is a digital career platform for technical blue-collar workers to empower them in their careers and help them find better jobs.

Humanloop

Seed Round in 2020
Humanloop Ltd is a London-based company that specializes in artificial intelligence, focusing on data labeling and model training to enhance the efficiency of human workforce scaling. Established in 2020, the company aims to revolutionize the training of AI systems by significantly reducing the amount of human input required, achieving improvements in performance with ten times less training than conventional methods. Humanloop's platform and tools are designed to facilitate advancements in machine learning and natural language processing research, making it a key player in the AI sector.

Workpay

Seed Round in 2020
WorkPay is a payroll processing company for small and medium sized businesses in Africa. We do this by providing this businesses simple tools for time tracking, payroll processing and salary disbursements to banks and mobile wallets like M-Pesa.

Lattice

Series D in 2020
Lattice is a people management platform that enables People Leaders to develop engaged, high-performing teams. By combining continuous performance management and employee engagement in one solution, HR and People teams get powerful, real-time analytics that leads to actionable insights turning managers into leaders, employees into high-performers, and companies into the best places to work.

Humanly.io

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Humanly.io is a hiring platform that specializes in screening and scheduling job candidates using artificial intelligence. Founded in 2019 and based in Kirkland, Washington, the platform engages with candidates visiting company job pages and social media, helping organizations enhance their recruiting processes. By qualifying candidates and addressing their inquiries, Humanly enables companies to improve conversion rates on hiring platforms and save significant time—over 60 hours per open role. The company, which was previously known as Humanly LLC, rebranded to HumanlyHR Inc. in July 2019, reflecting its focus on streamlining HR operations through innovative technology.

Humi

Series A in 2020
Humi Holdings Corp. designs and develops human resource software for businesses in Canada. It offers Humi, a cloud-based HR software solution that allows users to digitally sign new-hires, store employee documents in the cloud, and browse employees with org-chart or universal search; set up time off policies, approve (or deny) employee requests for time off, and view planned leave time on one calendar; and conduct 360 degree surveys, intimate one on one reviews, and drive employee growth and development with goal setting. The company’s solution also offers Payroll Digest that ensures payroll-relevant changes in Humi that get reflected in the external payroll system. Humi Holdings Corp. was formerly known as Humi Inc. Humi Holdings Corp. was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Hiration

Seed Round in 2020
We are redefining career services. If you are an organization and are hiring, then there are a plethora of options to help you out - recruitment consultants, headhunters etc. But if you are a professional and are looking for a career change, then you are on your own. We are changing this status quo! We are there to help professionals in these major career changes. Our existing products and services include a state of the art online resume making tool, expert resume reviewing and writing service, LinkedIn profile management service etc. This is just the starting of our journey to create a digital career assistant for every professional in the world! Visit: www.hiration.com & watch this space for more!

Humanly.io

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Humanly.io is a hiring platform that specializes in screening and scheduling job candidates using artificial intelligence. Founded in 2019 and based in Kirkland, Washington, the platform engages with candidates visiting company job pages and social media, helping organizations enhance their recruiting processes. By qualifying candidates and addressing their inquiries, Humanly enables companies to improve conversion rates on hiring platforms and save significant time—over 60 hours per open role. The company, which was previously known as Humanly LLC, rebranded to HumanlyHR Inc. in July 2019, reflecting its focus on streamlining HR operations through innovative technology.

Heru

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Heru builds the a community of gig-economy workers and have a suite of services that help improve their way of life and general well-being. The company's mission is to improve the conditions of independent workers by building, through technology, services, and benefits according to their needs and lifestyle.

Flo Recruit

Seed Round in 2019
Flo Recruit, Inc. specializes in recruiting event management software tailored for law firms and technology companies. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company’s platform streamlines the recruitment process by allowing organizations to capture candidate information quickly, typically in under 30 seconds. The software facilitates employee feedback on candidates and automates follow-up communications after events. Additionally, it provides tools for tracking attendees and managing event details, delivering valuable insights to recruiters that enhance decision-making and improve hiring outcomes.

Lattice

Series B in 2019
Lattice is a people management platform that enables People Leaders to develop engaged, high-performing teams. By combining continuous performance management and employee engagement in one solution, HR and People teams get powerful, real-time analytics that leads to actionable insights turning managers into leaders, employees into high-performers, and companies into the best places to work.

Go1

Series B in 2019
GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find, consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.

Nettrons

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Nettrons Inc. provides human resources and employment services to biotech and healthcare startups. Nettrons Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Airlock

Seed Round in 2019
Apozy Inc. provides a comprehensive cybersecurity solution known as the Airlock Browser Defense Platform, designed to enhance online safety for businesses across various sectors, including finance, healthcare, logistics, and telecommunications. The platform disrupts phishing and malware delivery processes, safeguarding brands from impersonation threats. Airlock allows organizations to deploy a lightweight browser add-on quickly, enabling users to respond to incidents effectively. Additionally, it offers an API for real-time URL scanning, ensuring that every link accessed is secure. By utilizing engaging simulations and gamification techniques, Apozy also helps companies strengthen their human firewall, enabling employees to identify vulnerabilities and improve their overall security posture. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Apozy continues to innovate in the field of cybersecurity.

Gusto

Series C in 2018
Gusto is a company that provides a comprehensive web-based payroll and human resource management solution tailored for small and medium-sized businesses in the United States. Its online platform facilitates payroll processing, benefits management, and human resource services, offering features such as health insurance, workers’ compensation, 401(k) contributions, time tracking, and integration services. Gusto enables employers and employees to manage payroll and benefits conveniently through web-enabled devices. The platform also allows employees and contractors to access their pay stubs, payroll forms, and personal information. Founded in 2011 by Edward Kim, Joshua Reeves, and Tomer London in San Francisco, Gusto serves a diverse range of clients, including startups, healthcare providers, creative agencies, and retail businesses, with an additional office located in Denver, Colorado.

Leena AI

Venture Round in 2018
Leena AI develops a human resource management platform that transforms employee experience with conversational AI. Its platform operates as an AI-powered HR assistant providing instant responses to employee queries over chat and voice, enabling organizations to get access to a platform which resolves HR services queries fast and improve the employee experience. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

Runa

Seed Round in 2018
Runa HR LLC is a human resources software company that specializes in providing solutions for small to medium-sized businesses. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mexico City, Runa offers a cloud-based platform that facilitates payroll calculations and employee data management. The software allows employers to manage various HR tasks, including vacation requests, employee data edits, payroll verification, and the generation of payment receipts. Additionally, Runa enables the payroll stamping process, which is essential for obtaining employee folios. Through its innovative approach, Runa aims to streamline payroll and HR management for its clients.

Runa

Seed Round in 2018
Businesses from every walk of life use rewards to acquire, retain and thank customers but the current process is broken. Sending rewards, incentives and non-cash payouts is manual, expensive, time-consuming and error-prone. WeGift changes this. Operating in more than 30 countries, in 22 languages, 20 currencies, with over 700 brand partners, and hundreds of clients, like Perkbox, Sodexo, New Look and Halfords among others, WeGift’s cloud-based, open API solutions allow businesses to transfer value to consumers, in real-time and globally. Established in 2016, WeGift is backed by leading entrepreneurs and investors.

70 Million Jobs

Seed Round in 2017
70 Million Resources, Inc. owns and operates a recruitment platform that connects companies with applicants with a criminal record for working on hourly wages. The company’s platform delivers incarcerated applicants nationwide, helps create resume for applicants, and offers referral services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Humi

Seed Round in 2017
Humi Holdings Corp. designs and develops human resource software for businesses in Canada. It offers Humi, a cloud-based HR software solution that allows users to digitally sign new-hires, store employee documents in the cloud, and browse employees with org-chart or universal search; set up time off policies, approve (or deny) employee requests for time off, and view planned leave time on one calendar; and conduct 360 degree surveys, intimate one on one reviews, and drive employee growth and development with goal setting. The company’s solution also offers Payroll Digest that ensures payroll-relevant changes in Humi that get reflected in the external payroll system. Humi Holdings Corp. was formerly known as Humi Inc. Humi Holdings Corp. was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Airlock

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Apozy Inc. provides a comprehensive cybersecurity solution known as the Airlock Browser Defense Platform, designed to enhance online safety for businesses across various sectors, including finance, healthcare, logistics, and telecommunications. The platform disrupts phishing and malware delivery processes, safeguarding brands from impersonation threats. Airlock allows organizations to deploy a lightweight browser add-on quickly, enabling users to respond to incidents effectively. Additionally, it offers an API for real-time URL scanning, ensuring that every link accessed is secure. By utilizing engaging simulations and gamification techniques, Apozy also helps companies strengthen their human firewall, enabling employees to identify vulnerabilities and improve their overall security posture. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Apozy continues to innovate in the field of cybersecurity.

Go1

Seed Round in 2016
GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find, consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.

HigherMe

Seed Round in 2016
HigherMe Inc. operates a recruiting platform designed to assist retail and management employers in finding, screening, and hiring employees more efficiently. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Brighton, Massachusetts, HigherMe utilizes 30-second videos to highlight candidates' personalities, attitudes, and interpersonal skills. The platform offers a range of features, including a searchable database of candidates, digitized onboarding paperwork, automated recruitment processes, screening for tax credits, customizable assessments, and application tracking. By leveraging data-driven behavioral and psychological matching algorithms, HigherMe ensures that employers connect with the most suitable candidates for their needs.

PhysioHealth

Pre Seed Round in 2016
PhysioHealth is an enterprise health and wellness management platform that rewards your employees for living healthy and decreases your healthcare costs. Their customized platform delivers 5x engagement vs. other corporate wellness programs.

Lattice

Seed Round in 2016
Lattice is a people management platform that enables People Leaders to develop engaged, high-performing teams. By combining continuous performance management and employee engagement in one solution, HR and People teams get powerful, real-time analytics that leads to actionable insights turning managers into leaders, employees into high-performers, and companies into the best places to work.

Human Interest

Seed Round in 2016
Human Interest offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans. Previously, only large companies offered employee retirement plans, leaving more than half of all working Americans without a path to a secure financial future. The company believes that a path to financial independence should be accessible to people in all lines of work.

Human Interest

Seed Round in 2015
Human Interest offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans. Previously, only large companies offered employee retirement plans, leaving more than half of all working Americans without a path to a secure financial future. The company believes that a path to financial independence should be accessible to people in all lines of work.

80,000 Hours

Seed Round in 2015
80,000 Hours are aim is to help as many people as possible lead high-impact careers. They do this by providing career advice for talented young people who want to have a social impact. Over a third of young graduates want to make a difference with their careers,1 but they have little idea what to do except work in the social sector or give up (“sell out”). Existing career advice either doesn’t address the question of how to have a social impact, isn’t based on much research, and often isn’t very helpful.2 As a result, each year, much of the potential impact of their most talented young people is wasted. They help their users get the meaningful careers they want, and society benefits because more talent goes to the world’s most pressing social problems.

Go1

Seed Round in 2015
GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find, consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.

HigherMe

Seed Round in 2014
HigherMe Inc. operates a recruiting platform designed to assist retail and management employers in finding, screening, and hiring employees more efficiently. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Brighton, Massachusetts, HigherMe utilizes 30-second videos to highlight candidates' personalities, attitudes, and interpersonal skills. The platform offers a range of features, including a searchable database of candidates, digitized onboarding paperwork, automated recruitment processes, screening for tax credits, customizable assessments, and application tracking. By leveraging data-driven behavioral and psychological matching algorithms, HigherMe ensures that employers connect with the most suitable candidates for their needs.

Impraise

Seed Round in 2014
Impraise is a mobile platform that focuses on enhancing productivity and engagement within organizations through its performance management software. The platform facilitates an ongoing exchange of feedback among colleagues, enabling the identification of learning opportunities and the sharing of knowledge. It streamlines the performance review process, enhances the efficiency of meetings and projects, and helps uncover coaching needs in real time. Additionally, Impraise supports the development of future leaders by making performance and development initiatives actionable for managers and manageable for HR. With a global customer base, the platform aims to foster a culture that prioritizes the empowerment of employees.

HireArt

Seed Round in 2013
HireArt, Inc. operates a recruitment platform specializing in contractor-employer matching. Founded in 2011 and based in New York, the company enhances the pre-screening process for job seekers by creating online interviews that simulate real job tasks. Candidates complete exercises relevant to the positions they are applying for, such as presentations or data analysis, and submit their responses via video or text. This approach provides employers with valuable insights, allowing them to make informed hiring decisions. HireArt's comprehensive platform supports employers throughout the entire employment process, including talent acquisition, screening, interviewing, onboarding, and human resource management, aiming to streamline and improve the contract employment experience for both clients and employees.

Zenefits

Seed Round in 2013
Zenefits is a digital HR platform tailored for small and medium businesses, providing a comprehensive solution for managing various human resources functions. The platform integrates essential applications such as HR, benefits, payroll, and compliance with partner tools for email, collaboration, and employee engagement. This all-in-one approach allows businesses to streamline their HR processes, including employee onboarding and off-boarding, benefits management, and compliance tracking, all from a single online dashboard. Zenefits aims to empower businesses to manage their workforce effectively while ensuring compliance with relevant regulations. Thousands of companies utilize Zenefits to enhance their HR capabilities and improve employee experience.

Teleborder

Seed Round in 2013
Teleborder helps companies hire, manage and retain international employees. Our software platform enables companies to manage immigration, reporting, and compliance all in one place, and our network of providers deliver related services through our platform. Our customers range from small startups to large corporations, and our investors include Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, IDG, and others.

Gusto

Seed Round in 2012
Gusto is a company that provides a comprehensive web-based payroll and human resource management solution tailored for small and medium-sized businesses in the United States. Its online platform facilitates payroll processing, benefits management, and human resource services, offering features such as health insurance, workers’ compensation, 401(k) contributions, time tracking, and integration services. Gusto enables employers and employees to manage payroll and benefits conveniently through web-enabled devices. The platform also allows employees and contractors to access their pay stubs, payroll forms, and personal information. Founded in 2011 by Edward Kim, Joshua Reeves, and Tomer London in San Francisco, Gusto serves a diverse range of clients, including startups, healthcare providers, creative agencies, and retail businesses, with an additional office located in Denver, Colorado.

HireHive

Seed Round in 2010
HireHive is recruiting software that makes hiring easy. HireHive helps you find and hire the best candidates.

RoboHR

Seed Round in 2009
RoboHR builds HR software for companies.

JobSpice

Seed Round in 2009
JobSpice is a surprisingly easy-to-use, intuitive online tool for creating a resume. Changing styles, managing different resumes for different employers, and creating web-based and PDF versions takes only a few clicks.