Weekday (YC W21)

Nobody Asked: Weekday (YC W21). Every recruiter knows the dirty secret of hiring. The best engineers are never on job boards. They're not updating their LinkedIn. They're not applying anywhere. They're already employed. Building something they care about. Amit Singh, Anubhav Malik, and Chetan Dalal learned this the hard way trying to hire for their own startup. So they built the solution they wished existed. What Weekday actually built: Not a job board. A trust-based talent network. Engineers vouched by other engineers. References verified before the first interview. Backchannel checks completed in 24 hours. The insight: referrals produce the best hires. But referrals don't scale beyond your personal network. Weekday scaled referrals. A community of engineer-scouts who recommend the best candidates from inside the industry before companies even know they're looking. The business model: SaaS subscription for companies. AI-powered outbound sourcing on autopilot. 4 days after signing up, candidates with verified references already on your calendar. Y Combinator Weekday (YC W21). $2.2 million raised. $3.8 million ARR: May 2025. 126 employees across 3 continents. 120+ companies hiring through Weekday. Small team. Global reach. Quiet execution. The angle nobody is discussing: LinkedIn has 950 million users. Most job searches still feel broken. Weekday isn't trying to be LinkedIn. It's building the layer LinkedIn never built - trust verification before the conversation even starts. Not who you know. But who vouches for you. That's not a feature. That's a completely different philosophy of hiring. Everything is a business model. Even the referral someone finally decided to scale. ~ Arjan Shah P.S.The best candidates aren't looking. The best platforms find them anyway. P.P.S. Weekday is building the future of trust-based hiring, backed by YC, scaling globally. The kind of person who decoded how referrals became a product, probably fits somewhere in that story. Even if just for a summer internship programme. #Weekday #YCombinator #HRTech #Hiring #BusinessModel #ArjanShah #MarsNineMedia #LinkedInIndia #NobodyAsked #StartupIndia #TechHiring

15 Pre Seed to Series B companies (including 4 YC companies) that have collectively raised $230 million in funding are hiring in India - both onsite and fully remote: 1/ LAT Aerospace – Pushing the limits of aerospace engineering Backend Systems Engineer, Frontend Software Engineer [Gurgaon] 2/ Scienaptic AI – Elevate Your Lending With Inclusive AI Tech Lead [Remote] 3/ We360.ai – Agentic AI Powered Enterprise-Grade Workforce Analytics Sr. DevOps Engineer [Remote] 4/ Rill Data – Go beyond dashboards with BI-as-code Backend Engineer [Remote] 5/ MIC Global – Modern income loss protection for forward-thinking businesses Data Engineer, Infra Engineer, Sr. QA Engineer, Software Architect [Bengaluru] 6/ Xcitium – Zero Trust Cybersecurity from Endpoints to Cloud Workloads Backend Developer, Linux Engineer [Remote] 7/ Skan AI – Enterprise system of record for work intelligence AI Engineer [Bengaluru] 8/ Kestra – Open Source Declarative Data Orchestration Backend Engineer, Integrations Engineer, Sr. Full-stack Engineer [Remote] 9/ Convosight – Transform Social Intelligence Into Brand Growth Backend Developer, AI Product Manager, QA Engineer, UI/UX Designer [Remote] 10/ Libra AI – WorkOS for Workforce 3.0 AI Founding Engineer, Product Manager [Bengaluru] 11/ Third Chair (YC X25) – Unblock legal, unlock growth Sr. Backend Engineer [Remote] 12/ Roger (YC S24) – AI-Powered Sales Automation Software Engineer [Remote] 13/ SureBright – Bring the magic of TV to business Founding Product Manager, Staff AI Engineer [Gurgaon] 14/ Bolna (YC F25) – Voice AI Built for India Product Designer, Backend Engineer, Sr. Frontend Engineer [Bengaluru] 15/ Dragonfruit AI – All-in-One Enterprise AI Full-stack Developer [Remote] Follow for more such weekly roundups of exciting engineering, product, and design openings.