Wideframe YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Wideframe went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 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: Winter 2026
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Daniel PearsonCo-Founder & CEO
Zachary KimFounder

What Wideframe does

Wideframe is an AI coworker for video editors. It automates the searching, labeling, organizing, and sequencing of footage so editors can ship videos faster. Why is this important? Well, it turns out that editors spend 3x more time preparing footage than actually editing. One agency said we will save their editors 10 hours per week. Another organized an entire documentary worth of footage in hours rather than weeks. He had 2,500+ videos, 500+ audio clips, across >2.5 TB of files and our agent handled them effortlessly. Users link footage to Wideframe and then our Agent acts like an Assistant Editor to handle work like searching, labeling, organizing, and sequencing footage. Wideframe works with footage across local filesystems and cloud providers. We also supports Adobe Premiere Pro (.prproj) roundtrip. Our robust integrations are important so that Wideframe can work with source footage all the way through to delivering Premiere Pro projects to editors.

Wideframe's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Wideframe, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Wideframe

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI coworker for video editors

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

Wideframe is an AI assistant that automates searching, labeling, organizing, and sequencing raw video footage. It acts like an assistant editor so video editors spend less time prepping and more time editing. It integrates with local files and cloud footage and supports Adobe Premiere Pro roundtrip.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where the video editing and AI communities are strong. Being here helps us build relationships and recruit.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Wideframe YC application?

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