
Y Combinator: The Vault
Welcome to The Vault, YC clips on startup life, founder interviews, live events and other odds and ends about YC startups. Same great content, but a bit more off-the-record. If you're looking for the main YC channel, check out: https://youtube.com/ycombinator
Episodes


How To Design Products That Truly Stand Out

RevenueCat: Powering Subscriptions for the App Economy

Alex: Your AI Recruiting Partner

Juicebox: AI Agents for the Hiring Process
In this interview, David and Ishan, co-founders of Juicebox, discuss their AI recruiting platform, which helps companies find, engage, and evaluate talent using LLMs. They share their backgrounds, how they met, and the evolution of Juicebox through YC, including pivots from a music app to a freelancer marketplace befor...

Greptile: AI That Actually Understands Codebases

Numeral: Building the Global Tax Platform

Recall.ai: Unlocking the World’s Conversations

Motion: Redefining How Work Gets Done

Exa: Organizing the World’s Knowledge

HappyRobot: Automating the Work That Moves the World
HappyRobot is revolutionizing physical operations by deploying AI agents that automate complex communications and workflows for industries like logistics and supply chain. After a strategic pivot during their Y Combinator batch, the founders transitioned from computer vision to building specialized AI agents that handl...

Advanced Context Engineering for Agents
Dexter Horthy, the founder of Human Layer, discusses context engineering for AI coding agents, emphasizing how to maximize the utility of today's AI models. He shares his experiences with spec-first development and introduces a workflow centered around context management, including research, planning, and implementatio...

Using LongMemEval to Improve Agent Memory
Sam Bhagwat, the co-founder and CEO of Mastra, discusses the LongMemEval benchmark for agent memory and the process of optimizing Mastra's memory layers. He defines memory as the compression of chat messages and the ability to search them effectively. Sam explains the subtasks within memory, including information extra...

Context Engineering for Engineers
Jeff Huber, the founder of Chroma, discusses context engineering for AI systems, arguing it's a more accurate term than prompt engineering or RAG. He emphasizes that AI is essentially software and the key is determining what information goes into the context window. Huber shares Chroma's research indicating that longer...

Context Engineering: Lessons Learned from Scaling CoCounsel
Jake Heller discusses lessons learned from building Co-Counsel, an AI legal assistant, emphasizing practical prompt engineering techniques. He details the three-step process: defining the customer experience, modeling the task after how the best lawyer would perform it, and breaking down the process into micro-steps th...

Salient: The Fintech Startup Processing $1B+ in Loans with AI

How Diode Is 10x-ing Hardware Design

The Startup Powering Billions In Trades Every Day

Infisical: The Open Source Security Stack

David AI: Powering the Voice Era of AI
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