Emi Labs YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Emi Labs went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 50
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Andres ArslanianFounder
Mateo CavasottoFounder

What Emi Labs does

At Emi Labs (YC '19) we are on a mission to increase frontline workers' access to professional opportunities by building the infrastructure for Frontline Workers (check our manifesto here: As our first step, we are transforming the high-volume recruiting process of Frontline Workers to make it as simple, human, and fair as possible for both Candidates and Recruiters. Our product is a SaaS recruitment platform powered by AI that helps companies engage with candidates via text to drive faster and more efficient hiring processes. We are growing fast, well funded, and obsessed with making our mission a reality. Some of their customers include Walmart, Burger King, Starbucks, 7-Eleven, Danone, Imperfect Foods, and Heineken.

Emi Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Emi Labs, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Emi Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Helping great teams hire better frontline workers, faster.

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

We are building an AI-powered recruitment platform that automates and improves the high-volume hiring process of frontline workers. Our tool engages candidates through text messaging to speed up hiring while making it fair and simple for recruiters and workers alike.

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

We live in Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina. After YC we plan to remain based there and continue remote operations.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Buenos Aires is where we have our roots and team. The talent pool and cost structure here allow us to build and scale efficiently while serving global customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Emi Labs YC application?

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