Swerve

Chat with AI Characters

Y CombinatorWinter 2025ActiveConsumerArtificial IntelligenceConsumerEntertainment

What they do

Problem

People lack engaging, immersive, open-ended entertainment experiences that let them interactively create stories through conversation.

Solution

Swerve is an AI character chat app that lets users chat one-on-one or in groups with dynamic AI characters to create evolving, unscripted stories.

Who it's for

Consumers who want interactive storytelling and entertainment through chatting with AI characters.

Founders

Soroush Saryazdi

Founder

Soroush is co-founder of Swerve (YC W25). Previously, he led AI at Matic, building perception systems for autonomous home robots that raised $30M from the founders of Stripe, Twitter, and Nest. He co-authored Gradslam (1.4K GitHub stars) and has published at RSS. Soroush holds an M.S. in CS from Concordia University.

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Jason Zhou

Founder

Jason is co-founder of Swerve (YC W25). Previously, he led autonomy and simulation at Matic, building autonomous home robots. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in EECS from UC Berkeley, where he conducted robotics and AI research and was named a Siebel Scholar.

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