Lantern AI

YC company profile

Turn Your Taste Into Hires

Lantern is the agentic recruiting platform for enterprise.

Lantern runs on:
(1) World People Model, a live talent graph of a billion professionals that knows who’s exceptional, reachable, and about to move
(2) Company Hiring Model, which learns your taste from every hiring decision you’ve ever made

Together, our agents plug into your existing systems and run the whole workflow: sourcing, application review, AI interviews, meeting intelligence, and analytics, under universal context.

Lantern also launched OpenRouter for People (people.lantern.md), an agent-native infrastructure to empower agents to find, research, outreach to anyone in the world.

• YC batch: Fall 2026
• Founded: 2025
• Team size: 4
• Location: San Francisco
• Country: US
• Status: Active
• Industry: B2B
• Stage: Early
• Tags: Human Resources, Recruiting, HR Tech, Talent Acquisition, AI
• YC partner: Christopher Golda

Founders

Thomas Chan — Founder/CEO

CEO & Co-Founder @ Lantern AI
Serial founder with 2 prior recruiting startups, generated 2M+ in sales
2M+ impressions on LinkedIn since YC
Narrative photographer (Stranger on Stranger in Iraq), former competitive Yu-Gi-Oh! player
Tsinghua (Law), CUHK (Business) and University of Melbourne (Films)

LinkedIn

Justin Tang — Founder/CTO

Co-founder & CTO at Lantern AI.

LinkedIn

Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.