Pyxai YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Pyxai 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: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Angela EdwardsFounder

What Pyxai does

Pyxai helps organizations evaluate, identify and source top talent by focusing on the best indicators of long-term job success, soft skills. Our proprietary, AI driven assessment tool helps organizations increase retention by at least 30% all while reducing the time to hire by more than 50%.

Pyxai's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pyxai

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Assessment tool predicting future job success

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

We built Pyxai, an AI-driven assessment tool that evaluates candidates' soft skills to predict long-term job success. It helps companies find and retain top talent by focusing on indicators traditional hiring misses.

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

We live in Boston and are primarily remote. After YC, we'll remain based in Boston with a distributed team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Boston is where our founding team is and where we have initial traction. Remote work lets us tap talent broadly while staying connected locally.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pyxai YC application?

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