Text.ai YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Text.ai went through Y Combinator in the Spring 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: Spring 2025
Industry: Consumer
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Rushi ShahFounder
Paras ManiarFounder
Prahar PatelFounder

What Text.ai does

We're building the first group chat with social skills. While everyone else is stuck with boring individual chatbots, we've cracked the impossible: Alfi reads the room, understands each person, and creates custom intelligence for every group chat. Alfi is your new social friend. The one who remembers everything, plans effortlessly, and keeps the crew together. Here's what that looks like: - Book restaurants together, with Yelp built in, directly in the chat. No more "where should we go?" spirals. Reserve instantly. - Create images with your friends: drop your crew into funny hats, wild scenes, anything you can dream up. Multiplayer image gen, first of its kind. - Social calendar: upcoming hangs, all in one place. Everyone on the same page. - Group Wrapped: who's the chattiest? Top inside jokes? Now you'll know. - Reminders & Memory: Alfi remembers your spots, your preferences, and nudges you to actually hang out. We're in the middle of a quiet shift. Gen Z is leaving broadcast social media. They're retreating to group chats, smaller, more intentional and personal spaces where they're honestly themselves. But group chats are also where plans go to die. Someone has to be "the planner" or nothing happens. We believe the group chat is the real social network. Where the funniest moments and real conversations happen in real time. With Alfi, we hope to bring you together more expressively, a lot more often. This technology will bring humanity closer than it's ever been before. Not replace connection, deepen it. That's the future we're building toward.

Text.ai's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Text.ai, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Text.ai

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Alfi - group chat with social skills

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

We're building Alfi, the first group chat with social skills. Unlike one-on-one bots, Alfi understands the whole group, remembers details, plans hangouts, and adds shared features like booking restaurants directly in chat and multiplayer image generation. It reads the room and keeps friends closer by managing the social flow that group chats need but lack.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where the right talent and network to build consumer social products and AI technology exist. It's where our early users are and where we can grow.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Text.ai YC application?

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