Searchlight (YC W19) — Talent AI improving quality of hire
Searchlight appears in Y Combinator's company directory in the Winter 2019 batch, listed 2018-04-25. Talent AI improving quality of hire.
Searchlight is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2019 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Talent AI improving quality of hire. The founders listed are Anna Wang (Founder), Kerry Wang (Founder (acquired)) (Y Combinator directory entry, April 25, 2018).
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Anna Wang
Founder
Anna leads Product & Partnerships at KERNEL (S25). Previously Co-Founder / CTO at Searchlight (W19), backed by Accel (seed) and Founders Fund (Series A), acquired in 2024.
Kerry Wang
Founder (acquired)
Exited founder/ceo of Searchlight (W19, AI SaaS for recruiting, acquired by Multiverse). Built v1 as an engineer, then became the #1 salesperson. Love chatting about 0 to 1 for both product and sales, and the intersection between the two.
SF-based, LA-original (the 626). Moved to the Bay for Stanford (MS Computer Science).
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