Lightscreen Blog · Apr 2025
Product launch for Coffee Chats, a voice-based conversational interview product, with a promotional 1,000 free minutes offer.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
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
0 jobs at Lightscreen AI
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Business model
Stage
Pre-seed
Total raised
$1.8M
Latest round
Pre-seed · Jan 2025
Latest amount
$1.8M
Jan 2025 · Y Combinator, Rebel Fund
Investors
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.
Pricing
Enterprise pricing with flexible plans; public materials also indicate usage-based, per-candidate pricing for interview workflows.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
≈$440K estimated ARR (2025)
Estimated monthly visits
1.8K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Lightscreen Blog · Apr 2025
Product launch for Coffee Chats, a voice-based conversational interview product, with a promotional 1,000 free minutes offer.
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.