Lantern AI
Lantern AI is a YC Fall 2026 (F26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 4.
About Lantern AI
Summary
Lantern AI builds an end-to-end AI hiring manager for companies replacing the combined work of a recruiter, HR partner, and talent intelligence function. It takes a 15-minute calibration to learn what strong looks like at a specific team, pressure-tests that standard against the real talent market, then runs the full hiring loop: sourcing, screening, interviewing, assessing candidates, coordinating schedules, and extending offers. The product targets B2B customers who want a single, continuous system instead of handoffs between people and tools.
Business model
Book-a-demo sales motion targeting B2B teams directly.
Go-to-market
Companies book a demo directly on the website, pointing to a sales-led motion aimed at hiring teams and founders who own recruiting decisions.
From the Y Combinator listing
Turn Your Taste Into Hires
Lantern is the agentic recruiting platform for enterprise. Traction: 1M ARR in 11 months, with clients like Crypto.com, Hyatt Hotel, Baker McKenzie across 10 markets Lantern runs on: (1) World People Model, a live talent graph of a billion professionals that knows who’s exceptional, reachable, and about to move (2) Company Hiring Model, which learns your taste from every hiring decision you’ve ever made Together, our agents plug into your existing systems and run the whole workflow: sourcing, application review, AI interviews, meeting intelligence, and analytics, under universal context.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Human Resources
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 4
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Justin Tang
- Thomas Chan
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