Lightscreen Blog · Apr 2025
Product launch for Coffee Chats, a voice-based conversational interview product, with a promotional 1,000 free minutes offer.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Lightscreen AI is a Sunnyvale-based YC F24 startup building an AI recruiting copilot / voice-and-video interviewer that automates technical screening, candidate evaluation, scheduling, background checks, and candidate communications for high-volume hiring. The public positioning emphasizes uncheatable technical interviews, fairer hiring, and faster screening at scale.
Primary product
AI recruiting copilot / voice + video AI interviewer for technical screening and candidate assessment
Founded
2024
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI recruiting / technical interviewing software
Offices
324 E Iowa Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, United States
Business model
B2B SaaS
enterprise pricing
usage-based per-candidate billing
Funding
Stage
Pre-seed
Total raised
$1.8M
Latest round
Pre-seed · Jan 2025
Latest amount
$1.8M
Jan 2025 · Y Combinator, Rebel Fund
People & investors
Work & culture
Founder-led and product-focused, with a strong emphasis on candidate experience, high-signal interviews, fairness, and anti-cheating infrastructure. Public messaging suggests a fast-moving, engineering-heavy startup culture.
Product & market
Pricing
Enterprise pricing with flexible plans; public materials also indicate usage-based, per-candidate pricing for interview workflows.
Differentiators
- —Voice + video AI interviewer rather than a plain resume screener
- —Collaborative coding-style interviews for technical roles
- —Multi-modal cheating detection using keystrokes, video, and audio
- —Rubric-based evaluation with specific examples
- —Natural-language workflow configuration
- —Designed to scale to high candidate volumes without adding headcount
- —Candidate experience focus and bias reduction messaging
Technology
OpenAI
Anthropic
Stripe
Checkr
Greenhouse
Workday
Customers
high-growth startups
recruiting agencies
warehouse hiring teams
retail hiring teams
healthcare hiring teams
call center hiring teams
engineering teams hiring technical candidates
Competitors
Sapia.ai
EvueMe
Zinterview.ai
Talent and Assessment
Skill IQ
Mindely
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$440K estimated ARR (2025)
Estimated monthly visits
1.8K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
LinkedIn · Apr 2025
Lightscreen announced its ASU+GSV Summit Demo Day appearance and reiterated its AI interviewer positioning.
Ignite Insights · Feb 2025
External interview/podcast writeup on the founder story, the technical-hiring use case, and early usage metrics.
LinkedIn · Oct 2024
Gavin Saldanha announced the launch and framed the product as making hiring faster, fairer, and less vulnerable to cheating.
Y Combinator · Oct 2024
YC launch post introducing Lightscreen AI’s voice/video interviewer, the cheating problem it targets, and the founders’ backgrounds.
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