Technical Assessment Platforms

Peoplebox.ai's Nova runs AI voice/video pre-screens and assessments inside a talent platform

Source: Peoplebox.ai / YC directory · Sep 9, 2026

Peoplebox.ai, a Bengaluru-based, YC S2022 company with roughly 35 employees and 500-plus company customers, has built Nova — an AI agent that runs two-way voice and video pre-screen calls, conducts first-round interviews (including coding rounds with proctoring), handles candidate check-ins, and runs assessments. What distinguishes Nova from a lot of standalone AI interviewer products is that it isn't standalone at all: it's one module inside a broader talent-management platform that already has 500-plus paying customers for its other functions.

That distribution model matters more than the specific feature set. A lot of AI interview products in this category are fighting for attention as point solutions, trying to convince a hiring team to adopt a new, single-purpose tool. Peoplebox is instead attaching an AI interviewer onto an existing talent-platform relationship and customer base — the same land-and-expand pattern we've seen work for HR-adjacent incumbents elsewhere in this space. It's a much easier sale internally: existing customers get a new capability inside a tool they already use and pay for, rather than being asked to evaluate and onboard a new vendor.

Key Points

• Bengaluru-based, YC S2022, roughly 35 employees and 500+ company customers
• Nova runs two-way voice/video pre-screen calls and first-round interviews, including coding with proctoring
• Also handles candidate check-ins and assessments inside a broader talent-management platform
• Positioned as one module within a larger HR/talent suite rather than a standalone interview tool