Airweave YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Airweave went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Spring 2025
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 7
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Lennert JansenFounder
Rauf AkdemirFounder

What Airweave does

Open-source context retrieval for AI agents across workspaces. It connects to productivity tools, email, document stores, or any private data source and transforms their contents into searchable knowledge bases for agents.

Airweave's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Airweave, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Airweave

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open-source context retrieval for AI agents

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build an open-source layer that connects AI agents to private data sources like email, documents, and workplace tools. Airweave transforms those contents into searchable knowledge bases so agents can retrieve relevant context and act across multiple workspaces.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We founded and built Airweave in San Francisco to be close to the AI and startup ecosystem, which helps with recruiting and user feedback.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Airweave YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Airweave's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Airweave would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.