We are a group of YC founders sick of the hiring status quo. We're launching Canteen, a recruiting platform that makes hiring top technical talent ~10x faster, at a fraction of the cost of traditional agencies.
Instead of wrangling recruiters, you just tell Cursor/Claude:
“curl @https://recruiting.thecanteenapp.com and follow the instructions, I want a [your job description].”
From there, Canteen: • Ingests your job description • Searches across arXiv, GitHub, LinkedIn, EthResearch, etc. to find relevant technical talent • Uses our agentic communication layer to handle outreach + lead verification • Pipes warm, verified, hard-to-reach leads straight into your hiring funnel (email, CRM, calendar, etc.)
We’re building this because recruiting engineers shouldn’t require endless cold emails and bloated agency fees. Agents + open technical graphs unlock a faster, cheaper, and more direct way to hire.
Would love your thoughts and feedback!
