Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a large number of startups twice a year. It created a new model for funding startups. Twice a year, the company invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups. The startup accelerator works intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Y Combinator

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

Liquid 2 Ventures

Angel Investments - Tom Gonser, Mike Dinsdale, Dean Neese

TMD Ventures

They believe that today, communities need support to build their own solutions, not someone to come build or sell a solution. They believe entrepreneurs come in all forms, and that it is too hard for entrepreneurs that don’t fit the standard mold.  They believe in strong values, and that true victory is one dogged with stories of adulation, not stories of discrimination. They are creating a new kind of firm; thoughtful capital: a community of friends and limited partners that steer time, resources & capital to those companies that we want to win.

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Zeal Capital Partners is a partner with exceptional diverse management teams building early-stage businesses.

Zeal Capital Partners

Moneta Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in enterprise technology businesses. Moneta is typically the first institutional check into its portfolio companies and aims to follow on through their Series B rounds and beyond. The partnership knows what it is like to start and scale a business, and the entire Moneta team has a relentless focus on driving significant operational value beyond capital investment.  Moneta Ventures was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Folsom, California, with investment team members across the West Coast and Texas.

Moneta Ventures

Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC. It helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with expertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, and Mike Collins co-founded the firm in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2013.

Alumni Ventures

Branded Strategic Hospitality is an investment and solutions company that leverages its ecosystem of hospitality venues, expertise, and deep relationships to influence, accelerate, and evolve hospitality technology (“HI-Tech”) and F&B innovation. Branded’s Principals and Managing Partners have worked together in the restaurant business for over 25 years, including the formation of Branded Restaurants in 2007.

Branded Strategic Hospitality

Spark Growth Ventures is a mid to late stage, vertical-agnostic technology venture capital as well as a micro private equity firm. The firm was founded in 2018 by Hem Suri and is headquartered in San Diego, California, United States.

Spark Growth Ventures

Invests in technology companies that transform how people learn, earn, and own

Avalanche VC

Basecamp is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests across categories and geographies at the pre-seed and seed stages.

Basecamp Fund

As the innovation lab and venture capital arm of SHRM, the world's largest HR network, SHRMLabs takes the lead in shaping the future of work. With an ensemble of leaders, experts, and strategic minds, we not only inspire innovation within the workplace but also foster it through strategic partnerships and astute investments.

SHRMLabs

Investing, Mentoring, and Fueling the Future of Entrepreneurship

Team Ignite Ventures

Drive Capital invests in innovative technology, healthcare, and consumer companies in the Midwest. The firm is looking for innovative entrepreneurs addressing big market opportunities. Its goal is to partner with entrepreneurs that have audacious goals and strive to build large sustainable companies. The firm seeks to invest in information technology, financial services, and mobile sectors. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Drive Capital

Chaos Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with pre-seed through Series A startups. The firm was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Chaos Ventures

Humanly.io

Humanly’s conversational AI engages with every single candidate. By automating the repetitive candidate screening and selection tasks, you reclaim valuable time. And by creating visibility into the interview, you make more confident and equitable hiring decisions using clear-cut evidence.  The company was founded in 2019 and is Co-Headquartered in Seattle, Washington , and Sacramento, California.

Humanly is an AI-first recruiting platform that focuses on optimizing the hiring process through conversational AI and automation. The company's technology is designed to augment existing recruitment processes with user-friendly interfaces built for non-technical users. Humanly's platform automates various aspects of recruitment including sourcing, screening, scheduling, and engagement. This allows recruiting teams to focus more on strategic tasks and building relationships with top talent. The company claims that some of its customers have experienced up to a 74% reduction in time to hire and that recruiters can save up to 75% of their time on repetitive tasks.

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Humanly is an AI-first recruiting platform that focuses on optimizing the hiring process through conversational AI and automation. The company's technology is designed to augment existing recruitment processes with user-friendly interfaces built for non-technical users. Humanly's platform automates various aspects of recruitment including sourcing, screening, scheduling, and engagement. This allows recruiting teams to focus more on strategic tasks and building relationships with top talent. The company claims that some of its customers have experienced up to a 74% reduction in time to hire and that recruiters can save up to 75% of their time on repetitive tasks.
Humanly's AI technology engages candidates in two-way conversations at scale, automating pre-screening, personalized messaging, interview reminders, and more. The platform integrates with existing Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to streamline hiring processes. It also offers an Interview Assistant feature that provides AI-generated notes, candidate follow-up emails, and interview analytics. Humanly emphasizes responsible AI use in hiring, aiming to balance efficiency with equity. The company states that it is regularly audited by third parties to maintain ethical standards in AI recruiting.
Key customers and partnerships
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Filtered is a skill-based hiring platform that leverages AI technology to revolutionize the technical hiring process. The company's core offering is a system that assesses candidates' fit for job roles, teams, and companies through capabilities-based hiring methods. Filtered's platform employs proprietary remote desktop technology to enable candidates to complete assessments for various technical skills, including cloud-related competencies. The company's services include candidate authentication, fraud detection, video interviews, and code challenges, all designed to provide a comprehensive evaluation of potential hires. Filtered's technology aims to overcome common challenges in tech hiring by focusing on practical skills rather than traditional credentials. The platform also offers reporting tools to help employers monitor hiring-related performance metrics and identify procedural gaps.
Key customers and partnerships
Filtered's client base includes several high-profile tech companies. The platform was being utilized by prominent companies such as Lyft, Cengage, Facebook, and Informatica for their technical hiring needs. The company's focus on skill-based hiring has attracted employers seeking to move beyond traditional hiring methods that rely heavily on academic credentials.

Filtered.ai

Metaview.ai is an AI recruiting technology company that focuses on improving the quality and efficiency of interview processes. The company's core product leverages advanced large language models, including OpenAI's GPT-4, to provide AI-powered interview summarization and a conversational interface for interviews. Metaview's technology eliminates the need for manual note-taking during interviews, allowing recruiters to focus on engaging with candidates. The platform offers features such as Metaview Answers, which enables recruiters to ask questions about candidates and receive instant summaries of key details, exact data points, and underlying insights based on interview discussions. This AI-enabled model helps recruiters extract data from unstructured, information-dense interviews, saving time and improving decision-making. Metaview's customers save an average of 5-10 hours per week per recruiter and experience a 20% reduction in time-to-hire due to higher-quality interviews. The company was founded in 2018 by Siadhal Magos and Shahriar Tajbakhsh.

Metaview

TalentGuard, founded in 2009, is a talent management company that offers an AI-powered workforce intelligence platform called WorkforceGPT. The company's platform helps organizations uncover and foster talent within their workforce, simplifying complex information and making it actionable. TalentGuard's technology focuses on assessing employees' current skills and proficiency levels, developing those skills, and cataloging skill data to determine successful career paths and succession proposals. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to identify and develop employees' skills and proficiencies, which can increase productivity and improve work quality.
In November 2023, TalentGuard introduced two significant enhancements to WorkforceGPT: Skill Builder and Skill-Based Learning Link Builder. Skill Builder generates technical, leadership, and soft skills with comprehensive definitions and behavioral indicators across four proficiency levels. The Skill-Based Learning Link Builder identifies relevant learning resources, bridging the gap between skill development and practical learning opportunities. These tools aim to help organizations customize and expand their skill libraries, fostering a more dynamic approach to talent development.
TalentGuard's software provides organizations with insights about employee proficiencies, qualifications, experiences, certifications, and work-style preferences. The company's solutions are designed to help businesses reinvest in their employees, offering tools for reskilling and upskilling existing staff. TalentGuard's platform also assists in ensuring workforce compliance with industry regulations and promotes diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.

TalentGuard

Talkpush is a recruitment automation platform that leverages chat interfaces and conversational AI to streamline high-volume hiring processes. Founded in 2014, the company's software enables employers to automate engagement with candidates at scale, handling millions of conversations with job seekers worldwide. Talkpush's technology allows for both automated and human-assisted interactions, with the majority of candidate conversations being fully AI-driven. The platform integrates with leading applicant tracking systems and supports various communication channels including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram.
Talkpush's product offerings include automated workflows that eliminate up to 95% of top-of-funnel manual tasks in recruitment. The system allows candidates to bypass traditional email and web procedures, reducing the number of face-to-face interviews recruiters need to conduct. Features include the ability to capture voice, video, and other rich media from candidates, as well as tools for recruiters to set up automated shortlisting, rejection, and interview scheduling based on predetermined criteria. In October 2020, Talkpush reported that its users saw a 250% increase in productivity, as measured by hires per recruiter.
The company has expanded its services to include an Automated Onboarding platform, helping new hires prepare for their first day on the job. Talkpush's technology was used to automate more than 10 million conversations with candidates in 2019, surpassing any other recruitment platform globally. The company operates primarily in emerging markets, with a focus on Southeast Asia and Latin America.
Key customers and partnerships
Talkpush serves leading employers in the retail, business process outsourcing (BPO), and staffing sectors. Notable clients include Walmart, McDonald's, Adecco, Concentrix, Teleperformance, and Accenture. The company has also worked with VXI Philippines to implement recruitment chatbots on Instagram.
In April 2020, Talkpush secured funding from Latin Leap, a Colombia-based venture capital studio, to accelerate its growth in the Latin American market. The company has customers in over 10 countries, including Costa Rica, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina. Talkpush has partnered with various companies to enhance its offerings.

Talkpush

Worklytics is a B2B analytics company specializing in employee engagement and workplace optimization. The company offers a platform that analyzes anonymous collaboration data across various tools such as Office 365, Google Calendar, Drive, Slack, Zoom, GitHub, and JIRA to provide insights into team effectiveness and work patterns. Worklytics' technology focuses on improving how employees spend time, coordinate tasks, and balance individual work with collaboration. The platform utilizes techniques like organizational network analysis (ONA) and predictive analytics to gain insights into team collaboration while prioritizing employee privacy. Worklytics does not store or analyze any work content, instead using only exhaust/log data to understand workflow and collaboration patterns. The company's services are adaptable to diverse working environments, including remote and hybrid setups. Worklytics offers real-time insights through its DataStream work data pipeline and provides organizational benchmarks for companies to compare their metrics with industry peers. The platform also aims to drive positive organizational change through targeted nudges to leaders and managers. As of February 2024, Worklytics operates with a team of nine employees and is based in Seattle, Washington. The company was part of the Y-Combinator Winter 2018 batch.
Key customers and partnerships
Worklytics has established a clientele that includes prominent companies such as Uber, Boston Dynamics, and Nutanix. The company serves clients across the US, Canada, and other remote work setups. Worklytics integrates with popular tools including Google Workspace, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Salesforce to collect collaboration data and provide comprehensive insights into workforce dynamics.

Worklytics

Companies that offer AI-powered tools to support interview-related activities, including interview note-taking, candidate screening, skills testing, and other behavioral insights

Companies that develop AI-powered tools to streamline skill management tasks, including developing training flows, managing employee learning, and creating personalized training and coaching programs. This segment also includes companies that develop GenAI assistants to handle employee queries related to the organization and related processes

Companies that utilize GenAI and machine learning to generate analytics, insights, and dashboards related to human resource management, including employee lifecycle, recruitment, retention, behavioral and social insights, inclusion, compensation, rewards, workforce engagement

Companies that develop AI solutions to manage the employee feedback cycle, including feedback cycle setting, goal setting, developing feedback surveys, analysis of surveys, maintaining job descriptions, and career progression mapping. This segment also includes companies that utilize AI tools to analyze and maintain workplace diversity and inclusiveness

Companies that offer AI-powered tools to recruitment-related activities, including creating job descriptions, sourcing talent via various channels such as social media, carrying out background checks, candidate tracking, and engaging with potential candidates. This segment also includes freelance recruitment platforms that utilize AI-powered tools to match candidates with suitable roles

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