GoRiff YC Application

Summer 2025Active

GoRiff went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2025
Industry: Consumer
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Kenny Zhang
Adith Reddi

What GoRiff does

Personalized digital greetings cards and gifts for your loved ones.

GoRiff's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

GoRiff, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

GoRiff

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Personalized AI Stories with Music

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

We build personalized digital greeting cards and gifts that combine AI-generated stories with music tailored for each recipient. Our product lets users create meaningful and unique messages that feel truly personal, blending storytelling and audio to make digital greetings more heartfelt and memorable.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in San Francisco because it has a strong tech community, easy access to talent, and proximity to investors. Staying here keeps us close to resources we need to grow GoRiff.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real GoRiff YC application?

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