Vahan YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Vahan went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2019
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 85
Status: Active
Launched: 2019

Founders

Madhav KrishnaFounder

Vahan's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Vahan, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Vahan

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI recruiter for India's blue-collar workforce

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

We build an AI-driven recruiting platform that connects India's vast blue-collar workers with companies seeking to hire them. Our product uses conversational AI to assess candidate skills and match them to employer requirements efficiently. This helps solve hiring challenges in a workforce often overlooked by traditional recruitment tools.

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

We live in Bengaluru, India and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Bengaluru is India's tech hub with access to engineering talent and proximity to our target market and clients, making it the best base for our company.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Vahan YC application?

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