Application YC di Contrario

Winter 2025Active

Contrario ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Winter 2025 come azienda B2B. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2025
Settore: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Dimensione team: 15
Stato: Active
Lanciata: 2025

Founder

Arya MarwahaFounder & CEO
Aditya SoodFounder

Cosa fa Contrario

Contrario is an AI recruiting and hiring platform on a mission to help companies build generational teams. In the age of AI, the best teams are still built by the best people. Recruiting has become a zero-sum game where speed and quality decide who wins. Contrario is a network of expert recruiters supercharged by vertical AI agents purpose-built for hiring. Teams at Wispr Flow, Listen Labs, Slash, and 200+ of the fastest-growing companies use Contrario to power their hiring. In under six months, Contrario has crossed $6M in annualized revenue, paid out $1M+ to recruiters, and placed 150+ candidates - making it one of the fastest-growing AI recruiting platforms on the market. Backed by Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, Goodwater Capital, and Inventum Ventures, alongside angels including David Chen (ex-HRT), Abhijeet Dwivedi (OpenAI), Hank Couture (DoorDash), and Jerry Cain (Stanford CS). Built by Stanford dropouts. Headquartered in San Francisco.

Application YC di Contrario, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

Contrario, batch Winter 2025. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Contrario

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI hiring platform powered by expert recruiters

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

We build an AI recruiting and hiring platform that combines a network of expert recruiters with AI agents specialized in hiring. Our product helps companies find and hire high-quality candidates faster by automating parts of recruiting while preserving human judgment. Teams at fast-growing startups use Contrario to place candidates efficiently without sacrificing quality.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is headquartered here. We will continue to be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where most of our customers and recruiters are, and it's where we can attract the talent we need. Being here keeps us close to our market and investors.

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Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference sono nella versione completa. Crea un account gratuito per aprirla in YC Insights, accanto a ogni altro batch YC.

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Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di Contrario?

No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di Contrario (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Contrario si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.

A quale batch YC apparteneva Contrario?

Contrario apparteneva al batch Winter 2025 di Y Combinator.

Chi ha fondato Contrario?

Contrario è stato fondato da Arya Marwaha, Aditya Sood.

Cosa fa Contrario?

AI hiring platform powered by expert recruiters

Come leggo la ricostruzione completa della application?

Crea un account Round Funded gratuito. La versione completa di 26 risposte della application di Contrario, e di ogni altro batch YC, è in YC Insights.