YC data · 6,287 companies · October 2, 2026
Formation · First surfaced Winter 2023

Hiring Platform

All formations
Cooled · Winter 202383% confidenceObserved October 2, 2026Source: Description cluster · description-only
The count
0.42×

12/937 → 7/1288; -0.74 percentage points of formation share.

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The companies behind the signal — 7
Summer 2022
Kombo

Unified API for HR, payroll and recruiting software. Kombo makes it easy for software companies to offer integrations with HR software. For example, a recruiting company could use our unified API to integrate with the dozens of recruiting systems used by different customers all at once instead of building an integration to each of them.

Winter 2022
Dealls – Jobs & Mentoring

Indonesia's #1 ATS & Job Portal to match top talents & companies. Dealls offers a curated selection of job vacancies for individuals pre-screened and curated by our team. By partnering with us, 5000+ companies have saved time and money by receiving only eligible and top candidates. Job seekers love Dealls because they can apply to multiple top companies with a single click and receive responses 21X faster than with other platforms.

Winter 2022
Talentropy.ai

AI solution that streamlines candidate screening and recruitment. Think of us as your dedicated AI recruiting team, available 24/7 to engage with every single candidate in their preferred language. We help companies to evaluate 100% of their candidates while reducing the workload on their recruiting teams. Our technical co-founders, Rubén, Vladimir, and Sebastián, bring vast HR industry experience. HoyTrabajas is supported by Rebel Fund, Alan Rutledge, Kube Ventures, Flucas VC, Magic Fund, New Ventures, Y Combinator (w22), and more.

Summer 2021
Talentdrop

Your personal hiring page.. When it comes to hiring, there are lots of resources to help managers get more candidates. But on average, only 1 in every 300 of these candidates actually get hired. Hiring managers and recruiters end up taking a robotic, brute force approach to sourcing - the kind of approach top talent hates. Managers are increasingly finding that the simplest and most personable way to attract talent starts with their network. The best candidates want to work for great people, not faceless companies. Sharing open roles on places like LinkedIn, Slack, and Twitter unlocks enormous potential for a personalized recruiting approach across a curated talent pool, but these referrals are difficult to track across platforms and end up lost in the shuffle. We are changing that. After more than a decade building teams at high-growth consumer tech companies like Instacart, Snapchat, a

Summer 2021
Careerist

Learning platform for job seekers with job applications automation. Careerist is an ed-fintech platform that trains job seekers for tech careers (in QA, Sales, Support & more), finances them and automates their job hunting. Our B2B2C platform aggregates job seekers, tutors and employers – streamlining training and placement. Techcrunch: "Edtech meets SaaS in Careerist’s job placement learning platform. The startup trains job seekers through live and self-paced training taught by third-party tutors. The adaptive learning software is meant to help candidates prep for tech interviews. Once a candidate is well equipped, Careerist uses automation to help them apply for jobs."

Summer 2021
Awesomic

Get matched with top 1% of talents in 24h. Awesomic matches companies with top & vetted product talents in 24 hours. Find your designers, engineers or no-coders in a few clicks. They deliver you results through our app, every 24 business hours guaranteed, for a flat monthly subscription. Successfully matched 4000+ companies, including 400+ YC startups, with their talents who completed over 14 000 projects in the app. Book a live demo here: https://www.awesomic.com/demo Portfolio – https://www.awesomic.com/portfolio Cases – https://www.awesomic.com/case-study

Summer 2021
Atmana

Apps to control technology addictions/ helping startups hire engineers. At Atmana, we help millennials cut down on technology addictions like gaming, pornography and social media. We have our solution consisting of blocking and techniques used in treating in alcohol and drug addiction like peer support groups, buddy program and psycho education. We also have a 2nd line of business: helping startups hire engineers from India. Hiring engineers from India can help you save cost while ensuring you have the same quality of talent in your team like you have in the US.

Inside Hiring Platform

Recruiting

A primary internal company segment within Hiring Platform, derived deterministically from the shared yc tag “Recruiting”. This is a classification of current window members, not a causal layer or a separate time trend.

Other / unclassified

Measured-window members of Hiring Platform that could not be assigned to a narrower shared YC tag or industry without forcing a classification.

Outside corroboration — does anyone else see this?

No comparable outside activity is connected yet.

Similarly named categories — not necessarily the same thing

These share a word with “Hiring Platform” but are tracked as separate categories. The real overlap below is the actual share of Hiring Platform’s companies also found in that category — not a guess.

Citation

Cambrian Signal, “Hiring Platform,” publication yc-2026-10-02-semantic-v8, snapshot October 2, 2026.
cambrian.jafar.com/formation/hiring-platform