Peoplebox.ai YC Application

Summer 2022Active

Peoplebox.ai 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: B2BHuman Resources
Team size: 35
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Abhinav ChughFounder
Alagu MFounder

What Peoplebox.ai does

Peoplebox.ai is an AI-native talent platform used by 500+ companies to hire, manage, and grow their people. At the center is Nova, the world’s most human-like AI teammate, for all talent conversations. Nova runs two-way voice/video pre-screen calls, first-round interviews (with coding round and advance proctoring), check-ins, and assessments, all with your company’s context built in. The talent management platform brings together OKRs/goals, performance reviews, career growth, calibration, and compensation into one unified system, helping companies align, assess, and develop talent faster.

Peoplebox.ai's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Peoplebox.ai

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI talent platform for hiring and HR management

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

We built an AI-native talent platform centered around Nova, an AI teammate that runs voice/video pre-screen calls, first-round interviews including coding rounds with advanced proctoring, and ongoing assessments. Our platform also unifies OKRs, performance reviews, career growth, calibration, and compensation into one system so companies can manage and develop their workforce faster and more transparently.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in San Francisco because it's a hub for AI talent and HR tech companies, giving us access to strong engineering networks and potential clients.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Peoplebox.ai YC application?

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