HireSweet YC Application

Winter 2020Active

HireSweet went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 27
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Paul BachelierCo-Founder & CEO
Ismael BelghitiFounder

HireSweet's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

HireSweet, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

HireSweet

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Talent acquisition software for data-driven recruiting

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

We're building a platform that helps recruiting teams find and hire talent more efficiently by using data to guide sourcing and evaluation. Our software organizes candidate information, tracks communications, and provides analytics so teams can make data-driven hiring decisions.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team lives and where most of our customers are. It has the talent and ecosystem we need to build a recruiting software company.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real HireSweet YC application?

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