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Saffron

Helping your company find 10x engineers.

Y CombinatorSpring 2026ActiveB2BRecruiting and TalentSaaSHuman ResourcesHR Tech

What they do

Problem

Companies struggle to accurately evaluate software engineers' real-world coding ability now that AI tools fundamentally change how engineers build and debug software.

Solution

Saffron provides an assessment platform that observes and measures how candidates use AI agents to develop, debug, and ship features on a real codebase.

Who it's for

Engineering teams and hiring managers at companies evaluating and hiring software engineers.

Founders

Robert Chondro
Founder / CEO

CEO Studied math & computer science @ MIT Building AI-native technical assessments to vet/hire SWEs

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Kazuma Choji
Founder

Building software to test how well swe's code with ai _______ previously: cs/math @ Harvey Mudd High school NeurIPS, ICML, and ICCV author

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Jerry Yao
Founder

Building AI-native technical assessments Prev. CS + math @ Stanford

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