HR & recruiting

Ashby

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Founded 2018Origin source ↗Checked 2026-11-03

Overview

At Ashby, we're improving the productivity of working professionals with intelligent and powerful software. We put a lot of effort into designing products that are approachable to beginners but mastered & extended by power users. In many ways, spreadsheets set the bar here.

Our first products provide talent teams with clever automation, powerful analytics tools, and customizable workflows packaged in great UX. We have many paying customers who love us and use us every day like Opendoor, Airtable, Duolingo, and Notion. Notion's Head of Talent said Ashby is "probably the tool we are in the most and rely on the most, as a recruiting team."

Our culture is motivated by Abhik's (my co-founder and Head of Engineering) and my belief that a small talented team, given the right environment, can build a great product and service fast (and work regular hours!). We hire exceptional, kind, thoughtful people and provide an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work.

We are well funded and backed by great investors, including Y Combinator, Elad Gil, and Lachy Groom. We'll share more once we meet!

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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HR & recruitingIndustry softwareBusinessesMid marketSubscription

Product & workflow

This allows us to become more specialized in our recruiting and build trust in our team without any of the previous friction in operations.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-16

Founders & team

Previously reteam, Motion

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Abhik Pramanik

Co-Founder & VP of Engineering

Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Ashby. Prior Senior Product Manager at PlanGrid, Lob. In a previous life, built physics engines at Industrial Light & Magic and Dreamworks Animation.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-11-03
110team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-11-03

Founded 2018 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Not assessed · 4 of 6 areas documented

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