Aside YC Application

Fall 2025Active

Aside went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2025 batch as a Consumer 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: Fall 2025
Industry: Consumer
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Jun KimFounder
Chanhee LeeCo-founder
Sanghun LeeFounder

What Aside does

Aside is an AI browser that acts on your behalf. Give it your passwords, browsing history, and browser context. It gets real work done end to end in the apps you already use, with no integrations required. - 🌐 Browser-native automation: Works directly in Gmail, Notion, Slack, Figma, banking apps, and internal tools, without any integrations. - 🔑 Passwords into tools: Lets AI use logins, sessions, passkeys, and credentials to take action. - 📚 Browsing history into memory: Gives AI persistent context across sessions. - 🧡 Push notifications into a heartbeat: Lets agents react to events and resume work in real time.

Aside's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Aside, Fall 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Aside

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Operating system for the AI era

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

Aside is an AI browser that acts on your behalf inside the apps you already use - Gmail, Notion, Slack, Figma, banking apps, and internal tools. You give it your passwords, browsing history, and browser context, and it gets real work done end to end with no integrations required.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, and we plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are now and where the ecosystem for AI, automation, and consumer SaaS thrives. Being here helps us move fast and connect with users and talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Aside YC application?

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