Flick YC Application

Fall 2025Active

Flick 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: ConsumerContent
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Ray WangFounder
Zoey ZhangFounder

What Flick does

Flick is an AI filmmaking software that lets people create Hollywood-level short films completely using AI end-to-end. There are many AI tools that can give you 8-second casual clips to post on social media, but when it comes to creating truly high-quality films with coherent storylines, consistent characters, and cinematic aesthetics, they don’t come close due to their lack of flexibility, creative control, and fragmented creative flow. Founded by an award-winning filmmaker and a founding engineer at Instagram, Flick defines an interface specifically designed for native AI filmmaking that feels natural and enables end-to-end creative flows. Think of Flick as Figma for AI filmmaking. There are 4 complete AI short films created using Flick that got 20+ awards in international film festivals already and our early creator residency community are generating several AI short films every week. We are also building a community where we produce our own AI films as well as collaborating with other well-known filmmakers to share their “behind-the-scenes” workflows as resuable templates to inspire users in our community. We not only build product, we also build world-class content. The whole film industry will be revolutionized by AI and our goal is to be “the product” that defines this category.

Flick's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Flick

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Figma + Cursor, for AI Filmmaking

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

We are building Flick, an AI filmmaking tool that lets people create Hollywood-quality short films entirely with AI. The product offers an interface designed specifically for native AI filmmaking, combining creative control and end-to-end workflow in one platform. Users can create coherent storylines, consistent characters, and cinematic visuals all in one integrated experience.

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

We currently live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has a strong creative and tech talent pool, which is essential for building a frontier AI filmmaking product. It also places us close to the broader film and tech industry for feedback and partnerships.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Flick YC application?

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