Glade YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Glade went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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: Summer 2023
Industry: B2B
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Daniel FangFounder

What Glade does

Glade is helping everyone build games with AI. GladeCore powers hundreds of studios and developers with locally powered AI NPCs that include TTS, STT, emotional tuning, and RAG. GladeKit is Cursor for Games - an AI agent that lives directly in your game engine and builds games for you.

Glade's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Glade, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Glade

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Build games at the speed of thought

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

We build AI tools that let game studios and developers create games faster. GladeCore powers NPCs with local AI for speech, emotions, and memory. GladeKit is an AI agent inside game engines that writes game content on demand. Our products handle what's normally the hardest, slowest part of game development.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and plan to stay here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the best access to AI and gaming talent as well as early users. Being here helps us work closely with our customers and the AI community.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Glade YC application?

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