Workatastartup
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Y Combinator's job board where candidates use one profile to apply to roles at YC-backed startups.
Also known as Work at a Startup · Y Combinator's Work at a Startup
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Work at a Startup (workatastartup.com) is a startup job board operated by the accelerator Y Combinator. The site lets job seekers create a single profile and submit one application to hundreds of open roles across YC-backed companies, spanning engineering, product, design and remote positions. Listings cover more than 1,000 vetted, funded Y Combinator startups, and candidates can browse a company directory or allow interested founders to contact them directly.
The site's on-page headings describe the core value proposition as applying to top YC startup jobs with a single profile, submitting one application for many roles, and getting in early at a YC-backed company. The workatastartup.com domain was registered in February 2012 and is hosted with the registrar Gandi SAS.
Business model
The platform connects job seekers with hiring teams at Y Combinator portfolio companies, aggregating open roles from those startups into a single application flow.
Traction
The site recorded about 941,890 visits in July 2026, up 18.41% month over month from 795,420 in June and 639,850 in May, with an average session duration of 10:22, 6.29 pages per visit and a 42.84% bounce rate. Its largest audiences are in the United States (43.08%), India (28.63%) and the United Kingdom (3.47%).
▸Full profile — market position, go-to-market, geography
Market position
Positioned as a job board tied to Y Combinator, one of the most influential startup accelerators; audience-overlap data lists workinstartups.com as an alternative site visited by the same users.
Go-to-market
The service is distributed through Y Combinator's own channels: roughly a third of desktop visits arrive from ycombinator.com, with the majority of remaining traffic direct. It is also surfaced by university career centers, such as Johns Hopkins University's Imagine Center, as a recommended startup job resource.
Job seekers pursuing roles at early-stage startups — including engineering, product and design candidates, and those seeking remote work — as well as founders and hiring teams at Y Combinator-backed companies.
Geography
Traffic is concentrated in the United States and India, followed by the United Kingdom, Bangladesh and Nigeria.
Compiled by commissioned research from 6 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
▸Research sources · 6
primary sources listed
- workatastartup.com Website Traffic, Ranking, Analytics [April 2026]semrush.com · web
6 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Workatastartup do?
- Y Combinator's job board where candidates use one profile to apply to roles at YC-backed startups.
- Who are Workatastartup's investors?
- Workatastartup's investors include AVA Angels.