Crew YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Crew went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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: Summer 2021
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Amine SkalliFounder

What Crew does

Crew is the next-gen ATS/CRM built just for recruiting agencies and independent recruiters. It’s all about modern sourcing, packed with cool automation and even a dash of AI. It's beautiful and well-designed. Plus, it’s deeply integrated with LinkedIn - because let’s be honest, that’s where we recruiters hang out most of the day. With Crew, you can forget about all that tedious copying/pasting, and tab-switching, making your workday a whole lot smoother.

Crew's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Crew, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Crew

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Next Gen ATS/CRM for Modern Recruitment Agencies

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

We are building Crew, an ATS/CRM designed specifically for recruiting agencies and independent recruiters. It focuses on modern sourcing with built-in automation and AI features. We integrate deeply with LinkedIn to cut down the tedious copying, pasting, and tab-switching recruiters do every day.

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

We live in Paris, France, and the company is remote but based here. After YC, we'll stay remote but keep Paris as our operational base.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in Paris where both founders live. The team is remote which lets us tap into talent broadly. Staying remote aligns with how modern recruiting agencies work, so it fits our customers too.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Crew YC application?

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