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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Ashby, Inc..\n\nBenjamin Encz is co-founder and CEO of Ashby, a recruiting platform from Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch. He was previously director of engineering at PlanGrid. At Ashby he designed early building blocks the team still builds on and maintains its internal knowledge base on customers and the industry.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminencz/\n\n## What Benjamin builds\n\n- [Ashby](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ashby.md), graded C, 61.4/100, in Recruiting \u0026 applicant tracking. Ashby is an applicant tracking and recruiting platform from Ashby, Inc. Agents reach it through a public RPC-style API for candidates, applications, jobs, interviews and offer records, or through a hosted MCP server in open beta. Co-founder, Ashby, Inc., researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Abhik Pramanik](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/abhik-pramanik/), Co-founder, Ashby, Inc.\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [Lachy Groom](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lachy-groom/)\n- [Elad Gil](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/elad-gil/)\n- [F-Prime Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/f-prime-capital/)\n- [Alkeon Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alkeon-capital/)\n- [Gaingels](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gaingels/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Benjamin Encz?\n\nBenjamin Encz is co-founder and CEO of Ashby, a recruiting platform from Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch. He was previously director of engineering at PlanGrid. At Ashby he designed early building blocks the team still builds on and maintains its internal knowledge base on customers and the industry.\n\n### What does Ashby, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Ashby from Ashby, Inc.. Ashby is an applicant tracking and recruiting platform from Ashby, Inc. Agents reach it through a public RPC-style API for candidates, applications, jobs, interviews and offer records, or through a hosted MCP server in open beta.\n\n### Who has invested in Ashby, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator, Lachy Groom, Elad Gil, F-Prime Capital, Alkeon Capital and Gaingels.\n\n### How are Benjamin's tools graded?\n\nAshby is graded C, 61.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ashbyhq.com/team\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ashby\n- https://www.ashbyhq.com/support\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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