Swerve YC Application

Winter 2025Active

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

Founders

Soroush SaryazdiFounder
Jason ZhouFounder

What Swerve does

Swerve is an AI character chat app that immerses users in rich stories and conversations. Users discover unique AI characters, choose their own persona, and dive into one-on-one or group chats that evolve naturally with no scripts and no limits. Our goal is to make Swerve the most entertaining part of your phone, a place where you step into any world, build stories with characters you connect with, and let every conversation go wherever it leads.

Swerve's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Swerve, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Swerve

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Chat with AI Characters

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

We are building Swerve, an AI character chat app where users find and talk to unique AI-driven characters without scripts or limits. People choose or create personas and dive into evolving one-on-one or group conversations that feel natural and story-driven. Our product turns AI chats into immersive, entertaining experiences on your phone.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is ideal for us because it's where we live and where we can tap into AI and consumer tech talent, plus be close to early users and relevant communities.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Swerve YC application?

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