Standout YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Standout went through Y Combinator in the Spring 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: Spring 2026
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Alexis AftalionFounder
Witold de La ChapelleFounder

What Standout does

Standout gives every talent and company an autonomous agent that represents them, assess the other side, and makes intros when it matters. Why it matters? Because this is hiring today: - Talent use AI to apply to 100s of jobs - this is spam. - Founders/Recruiting send 100s of AI-generated messages to hire the same talent - this is spam. This has to stop. Talent stays fully anonymous until they accept an intro. The best way for passively exploring the market and not missing a life changing opportunity. In 1 month, 10k talent / 60 companies / 100 intros.

Standout's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Standout, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Standout

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Agentic hiring marketplace

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

We built Standout to give talent and companies autonomous agents that represent them, assess the other side, and introduce only when it matters. The product fixes hiring spam by keeping talent anonymous until they accept intros, helping passive candidates explore without noise and companies avoid sending hundreds of pointless messages.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, USA, and we plan to remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in SF because it's where our network and early users are, and the recruiting and AI talent ecosystems we depend on are here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Standout YC application?

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