Narrative YC Application

Fall 2025Active

Narrative 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: B2BMarketing
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Victor Chapman
Aryan Sawhney
Erik Vank

What Narrative does

Narrative automates the creation and distribution of high-quality sports highlight videos for broadcasters, teams, and leagues.

Narrative's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Narrative

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-Powered Sports Highlights

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

We make a platform that automatically creates and distributes sports highlight videos. It ingests live sports feeds, identifies key moments using AI, then edits and packages them to distribute to broadcasters, teams, and leagues who want fast, high-quality highlights without the manual editing hassle.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us in the center of the tech ecosystem and close to potential partners in sports and media. We've built the company here and see no reason to move for now.

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 Narrative YC application?

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