Lightscreen AI YC Application

Fall 2024Active

Lightscreen AI went through Y Combinator in the Fall 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: Fall 2024
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Gavin SaldanhaFounder

What Lightscreen AI does

Lightscreen’s voice + video AI interviewer enables companies to identify and invest in genuinely skilled candidates. It's already being used by high-growth startups and recruiting agencies to screen technical candidates. We provide companies with a voicebot that can run a full-length technical interview, does smart interruptions, and multi-modal cheating detection. The AI provides the company rubric-based, rich candidate evaluation in minutes and can be fully customized to ask questions and evaluate based on the company's needs.

Lightscreen AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lightscreen AI, Fall 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lightscreen AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Voice + video AI interviewer

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

We built an AI-driven voice and video interviewer that runs full technical interviews without human moderators. Our system listens, asks questions, interrupts smartly for clarifications, and detects cheating through multiple signals. It outputs detailed, rubric-based candidate evaluations tailored to each company's criteria. It's designed to cut down screening time and surface truly skilled engineering candidates.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, and the company will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live, is a hub for recruiting and tech startups, and gives us close proximity to our early customers and networks.

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 Lightscreen AI YC application?

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