Alex YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Alex went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2024
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 30
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Aaron WangFounder
John RytelFounder

What Alex does

Alex is an agentic AI recruiter for the future of hiring. Companies use us to get the best hiring signal on their applicant pool and hire in a fraction of the time. Our AI recruiter, Alex, has a live conversation over a video call with each of your candidates based on the interview questions you choose or that are recommended based on the job description. During the interview, Alex asks personalized follow-up questions in real-time based on the candidate's responses. Alex can be customized to your roles in minutes and has already conducted thousands of interviews across engineering, IT, retail, hospitality, and more.

Alex's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Alex, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Alex

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Your AI recruiter for interviewing talent

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We've built Alex, an AI interviewer that conducts live video interviews with candidates. It asks the questions you choose or that it recommends based on the role. During the interview, Alex follows up in real-time with personalized questions based on candidate responses. It shortens hiring cycles by providing a consistent, objective signal on applicant quality across industries like engineering and hospitality.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, and the company is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're in San Francisco because it's the most active hub for recruiting tech and building AI tools. Being here keeps us close to clients, candidates, and the talent pool we serve.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Alex YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Alex's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Alex would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.