Memoir YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Memoir went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2026 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: Spring 2026
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Maanav AgrawalFounder
Jason ZhanFounder

What Memoir does

AI marketing service for developer tools. We turn your real product into social posts and demo videos in your voice automatically. Think of it as a clone of you that's also marketing your company at the same time. Memoir is one system. It reads your repo, drives your live staging app with an AI agent, generates branded demo videos with synthetic data so dashboards look real and narrates them in a voice cloned from yours. For the social side, we monitor what's actually getting traction in your space right now. The threads going viral on dev-tools X, the posts climbing on HN, the formats your audience is engaging with this week, and we draft posts in your writing voice that ride those currents. You review everything before it goes out. The output is indistinguishable from how you'd write and record it yourself, if you had the time and a full marketing team behind you.

Memoir's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Memoir, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Memoir

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI CMO for software companies

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

Memoir is an AI marketing service that automatically creates social posts and branded demo videos from your software product. It reads your repo, drives your staging app using an AI agent, generates demo videos with synthetic data narrated in your voice, and drafts social posts in your writing style based on trending content in dev tools communities. Everything requires your review before publishing but looks and sounds like you, saving software companies the time and effort of running marketing.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and Memoir is based here as well after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are in San Francisco because it's where we live, and it has the best access to startup resources, engineering talent, and a network of early users who build developer tools, our target customers.

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 Memoir YC application?

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