Skillsync YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Skillsync went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 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 2026
Industry: B2BHuman Resources
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Narayana Aaditya GaneshkumarFounder
Nishant JoshiFounder

What Skillsync does

Skillsync is an AI recruiter that hires engineers based on what they've shipped. The best engineers are not on LinkedIn. They're on GitHub, busy shipping code. But GitHub is massive, chaotic, and nobody had made it searchable for hiring. Skillsync changes that. Companies search directly for capabilities and we surface engineers already building in their domain. Companies like Ramp, Bun, and Zed use Skillsync to hire for critical roles, with Bun seeing 5x improvement in conversion rates. We're starting with open source and expanding to research papers, private repos, and every surface where real work happens. We're building the LinkedIn for the AI era

Skillsync's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Skillsync, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Skillsync

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Hire engineers based on what they've shipped

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

We built an AI recruiter that lets companies hire engineers by searching what they've actually shipped, mainly on GitHub. Instead of resumes or LinkedIn profiles, our tool surfaces engineers actively building in the company's domain by analyzing their real work. We started with open source code and plan to add research papers, private repos, and other places engineers contribute work.

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

We currently live in San Francisco and would stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the engineer hiring ecosystem and many of our early users are. Being here helps us stay close to customers and talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Skillsync YC application?

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