HR & recruiting

Lightscreen AI

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Founded 2024Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Lightscreen’s voice + video AI interviewer enables companies to identify and invest in genuinely skilled candidates. It's already being used by high-growth startups and recruiting agencies to screen technical candidates.

We provide companies with a voicebot that can run a full-length technical interview, does smart interruptions, and multi-modal cheating detection. The AI provides the company rubric-based, rich candidate evaluation in minutes and can be fully customized to ask questions and evaluate based on the company's needs.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Gavin Saldanha

Founder/CTO

I'm a founder and CTO at Lightscreen AI. I'm a software engineer with a background in ML/NLP. I previously worked in Google Cloud and led the engineering teams at Cauzal AI and Stacked. I did my undergrad at UC Berkeley and Master's at Columbia. I published a paper on text generation in collaboration with IBM Watson.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2024 · Source

News & product activity

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Y Combinator

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Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Operating · 3 of 6 areas documented

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Company website: home Checked 2026-10-10

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