Interface YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Interface 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

Max RavenFounder
Peyton ShieldsFounder

What Interface does

Interface is a frontier research lab focused on high-fidelity visual simulation. We build neural systems that model appearance, behavior, and interaction for world-model research.

Interface's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Interface

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The world model research lab

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

We build neural systems that simulate appearance, behavior, and interaction to create high-fidelity visual worlds for research in world models. Our product lets researchers and developers explore and experiment with detailed, realistic simulations that go beyond current 3D engines or video. The goal is to push what AI can understand and predict about complex environments.

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

We live in New York, NY and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We started and operate out of New York where both founders live. We have a network and resources here and want to keep our base where we can focus deeply without relocating during YC.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Interface YC application?

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