Rivet YC Application

Fall 2025Active

Rivet went through Y Combinator in the Fall 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: Fall 2025
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Sam GormanFounder

What Rivet does

Rivet is a visual AI editor for product designers to make UI changes. Designers ship the changes they make directly to their codebase. The most painful problem for designers today is that their vision doesn't match code. Rivet replaces slow collaboration between designers and engineers by letting designers just do it themselves. Rivet's editor helps turn product designers into design engineers. Design-led companies in YC are Rivet customers. Learn more at rivet.design

Rivet's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Rivet

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Visual editor to design in production code

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

We built a visual AI-powered editor that lets product designers make UI changes directly in production code. It removes the handoff between design and engineering by letting designers ship their design changes themselves.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and after YC the company will be based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in San Francisco where a lot of design-led startups and engineering teams are located, making it easier to reach our early users and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Rivet YC application?

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