We work intensively with the companies for three months to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day, when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience. But YC doesn’t end on Demo Day. We and the YC alumni network continue to help founders for the life of their company, and beyond.

Happydance builds high-performance careers websites that turn candidate experience into competitive advantage. Our SaaS platform helps mid-market and enterprise companies attract top talent, showcase their employer brand, and convert interest into hires, seamlessly and at scale.

Remote eliminates barriers to international hiring so great companies can work with great people, no matter where those people are.

At candidate.fyi, our mission is to help recruiting teams create exceptional candidate experiences while reducing the time spent on manual tasks. By empowering TA teams with our suite of tools, we enable them to focus on building meaningful connections and elevating the overall hiring journey. We're here to streamline processes, promote transparency, and ensure every candidate feels valued throughout the hiring process.

HelloSky, The Precision Talent Intelligence Platform consolidates human capital, company, talent, investor, and assessment data into a single GenAI-powered platform. With dynamic market mapping, real-time tracking, and SmartRank™ technology, HelloSky is changing the game for how executive precision talent is sourced and evaluated, eliminating the need for multiple disparate costly subscriptions.

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Noon is an autonomous AI recruiting platform that can source, engage, screen, and interview candidates on behalf of recruiting teams. Over 1,000 recruiting teams use Noon to automate the most time consuming parts of hiring while keeping recruiters in control. Teams at companies like Handshake, Mercor, and Grammarly use Noon’s AI agents to identify qualified candidates, run personalized outreach, review inbound applicants, and conduct candidate interviews.

iMocha is a leader in skills assessment and skills intelligence, empowering organizations to adopt a skills-first approach to workforce development.

Metaview is the Agentic Recruiting Platform with AI agents that handle sourcing, application review, notes, reporting, and all the admin recruiters hate. Every agent shares a single layer of context about your org and how you hire. They work autonomously, but never without human oversight. Your team sets the bar; the agents do the work. The result: radically efficient hiring end to end, with humans free to focus on what only humans should decide. 5,000+ world-class companies including Brex, ElevenLabs, Affirm, Airtable, and Replit build their teams with Metaview. Our suite of connected agents include: • AI Sourcing: The first truly autonomous AI sourcing agent that acts as a proactive, collaborative, context-aware teammate to find you perfect-fit candidates. • AI Notetaker: Perfect recruiting notes, totally configurable to your hiring workflow, and grounded in the context of the hire you're making. • AI Reports: A fully customizable reporting engine that lets you slice, track, and optimize your entire hiring process. • AI Job Posts: AI-powered checks and suggestions for compliant, consistent job posts.

From verifying candidate identity upfront to pre-hire screening solutions like criminal background checks, drug screening, verifications, and post-hire monitoring that helps promote trust and safety, Sterling is with you at each step of the journey.

We partner with exceptional teams to help great people hire great people.

Since its inception in 2003, DocuSign has been on a mission to accelerate business and simplify life for companies and people around the world. We pioneered the development of e-signature technology, and today DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act on, and manage agreements. Our value is simple to understand: legacy, paper-based agreement processes are manual, slow, expensive, and error-prone. We eliminate the paper, automate the process, and connect it to all the other systems that businesses are already using. Our platform has 350+ prebuilt integrations with popular business apps and our APIs enable embedding and connecting DocuSign with customers' websites, mobile apps, and custom workflows. Today, more than 500,000 customers and hundreds of millions of users in over 180 countries use DocuSign to accelerate the process of doing business and to simplify people's lives.