awen YC Application

Winter 2025Active

awen went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2025
Industry: B2B
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Thibault HenrietFounder

What awen does

AI creative tools became powerful quickly. But they also got complicated. Most of them require creatives to do the engineering. Prompts. Parameters. Node graphs. Creative work doesn’t start there. It starts with thinking, exploring directions, and iterating on ideas. With Awen, we’re trying a different approach: A creative partner that turns intent into exceptional visuals through conversation.

awen's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

awen, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

awen

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

awen translates intent into visuals

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

We built awen to turn creative intent into visuals through conversation. Instead of making creatives learn prompts or complex parameters, our AI acts as a partner, letting users explore ideas and iterate by simply talking to it. It targets creative professionals frustrated by existing AI tools that force them into technical workflows before they can start actual creative thinking.

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

We're fully remote. After YC we will continue remote work to access talent unrestricted by location.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Remote allows our diverse team to collaborate without relocation. It fits our early stage and lets us hire the best people regardless of geography.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real awen YC application?

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