Juicebox YC Application

Summer 2022Active

Juicebox went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 50
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

David PaffenholzFounder
Ishan GuptaFounder

What Juicebox does

Juicebox is on a mission to help teams win the talent war. In the age of AI, human ingenuity is the ultimate scarce resource. Recruiting is a zero-sum game where you either compete or lose. Teams at Ramp, Perplexity, and leading AI labs use Juicebox to power their hiring, alongside 3,000+ customers from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies. We’ve crossed $10M in ARR with 20%+ monthly growth, powering thousands of searches every day and making Juicebox one of the fastest-growing AI SaaS companies in the world. Juicebox has raised $36M in funding, including a $30M Series A led by Sequoia Capital. Additional investors in Juicebox include Coatue, NFDG, Lux Capital, Y Combinator, and BOND Capital.

Juicebox's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Juicebox, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Juicebox

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered talent sourcing for recruiters

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

We build an AI-driven platform that helps recruiting teams find and engage talent faster. Our tool automates searching across data sources to surface candidates that best fit a role, making sourcing more efficient in a highly competitive market.

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

We live in Los Angeles, CA, and the company is based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in LA because both founders are here and we have built strong recruiting and engineering networks locally. It's also where many of our customers and early employees are.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Juicebox YC application?

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