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", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1322045989, "tags": [ "Video", "Media" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2012", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/loom", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2012/loom.json" }, { "id": 56, "name": "Ark", "slug": "ark", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://ark.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Ark.com is a search engine for people. With Ark, you can search for new people, old classmates, new business contacts, and even your friends. With over a billion social network profiles indexed, and using a modern architecture, Ark provided the most comprehensive people search engine in the world.\n\nPrior to founding Ark, our team has experience at Google, AOL, Symantec, Lithium, Yahoo! Research and Y-Combinator.", "one_liner": "Ark organizes the world's social information. 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Socialcam makes it fast, easy and fun to capture, share and view high quality movies of life's moments with friends and family.", "one_liner": "The easiest way to share videos with friends and family. ", "team_size": 0, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1324326701, "tags": [ "Video", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2012", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/socialcam", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2012/socialcam.json" }, { "id": 75, "name": "Genius", "slug": "genius", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/22f70a1747582c2bb1d490082ec34e1607eca028.png", "website": "https://genius.com", "all_locations": "Brooklyn, NY, USA", "long_description": "Genius is the world's biggest encyclopedia of music. Powered by its community, in-house creative team, and the artists themselves, Genius serves music knowledge to over 100 million people each month on Genius.com and everywhere music fans connect across the internet.\r\n\r\nFounded in 2009, Genius began as a platform for annotating rap lyrics. Over the years, it has expanded its mission to include more than hip-hop, and more than just lyrics. Every song has a story that needs to be told, and the biggest names in music—including Frank Ocean, Lorde, and Lin-Manuel Miranda—come to Genius to give the world insight into their art.", "one_liner": "Music Intelligence", "team_size": 101, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326789003, "tags": [ "Music" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2011", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/genius", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2011/genius.json" }, { "id": 123, "name": "Snapjoy", "slug": "snapjoy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://snapjoy.com", "all_locations": "Boulder, CO, USA", "long_description": "Snapjoy is an online photo storage service that imports photos from anywhere and organizes them in a meaningful way.\n\nAfter uploading some photos, the app categorizes the photos for its user, using metadata to try to intelligently place the correct photos in each album. If the user uploads the same photo multiple times, Snapjoy ignores the duplicates.\n\nBy default, everything uploaded to Snapjoy is private but users can still share photos with specific groups of friends, and if the users grant permission, friends can actually copy users’ photos into their own Snapjoy album.\n\nSnapjoy was launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Boulder, C.O.", "one_liner": "Photo library.", "team_size": 11, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326789582, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2011", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/snapjoy", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2011/snapjoy.json" }, { "id": 154, "name": "Hyperink", "slug": "hyperink", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://hyperinkpress.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Hyperink, the San Francisco based self-publishing platform, wants to unlock and sell that untapped information by giving every citizen the ability to publish a book.", "one_liner": "Ebook publisher.", "team_size": 11, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326789857, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2011", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hyperink", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2011/hyperink.json" }, { "id": 195, "name": "Upbeat", "slug": "upbeat", "former_names": [ "PRX Crowdbooster" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "https://www.upbeatpr.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Upbeat is a software-powered next-generation PR agency that focuses on media marketing for various companies. The company is a team of software engineers and PR professionals working together to bring the old-school PR industry to the modern world.\r\n\r\nUpbeat turns story ideas to into something presentable by connecting the best stories to the best storytellers. They also manage email outreach and follow-ups and keep track of pitch's progress with real-time analytics and email updates. And, its software is also an avenue to monitor media opportunities on company's behalf.", "one_liner": "Upbeat: Building the next generation of Public Relations (PR)", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326790194, "tags": [ "Media" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2010", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/upbeat", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2010/upbeat.json" }, { "id": 220, "name": "Nowmov", "slug": "nowmov", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://nowmov.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Nowmov is an endless stream of videos recommended to users based on their interests, friends and what's trending around the world.", "one_liner": "", "team_size": 0, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326790426, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2010", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nowmov", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2010/nowmov.json" }, { "id": 225, "name": "Answerly", "slug": "answerly", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://answerly.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "There is no better way to engage with potential customers than by answering their questions. InboxQ makes it easy to find people who have questions about your business, products or general industry", "one_liner": "", "team_size": 11, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326790472, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2010", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/answerly", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2010/answerly.json" }, { "id": 227, "name": "Zenedy", "slug": "zenedy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://zenedy.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Zenedy\nZenedy was started as a means to showcase information about obscure topics from around the web.", "one_liner": "", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326790487, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2010", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zenedy", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2010/zenedy.json" }, { "id": 241, "name": "HighlightCam", "slug": "highlightcam", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://highlightcam.com", "all_locations": "Mountain View, CA, USA", "long_description": "Founded in 2009, HighlightCam is a YC-alum & 500Startups-funded company bent on taking over the world, one movie at a time.\n\nHighlightCam is revolutionizing how users create (and share) movies with a powerful mobile and desktop video-editing platform that takes your favorite videos & pictures & produces professional-quality movies. Now, your most important memories can be automatically transformed into meaningful video snapshots. HighlightCam is based out of Mountain View, CA.", "one_liner": "HighlightCam edits video, automatically!", "team_size": 11, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326790591, "tags": [ "Video" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2009", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/highlightcam", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2009/highlightcam.json" }, { "id": 255, "name": "GraffitiGeo", "slug": "graffitigeo", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://graffitigeo.com", "all_locations": "Palo Alto, CA, USA", "long_description": "At its core GraffitiGeo allows users to leave brief reviews of restaurants, or for those too lazy to do that, to simply leave a \"thumbs up\" or \"thumbs down\" — it's like a highly condensed version of Yelp, or a \"Digg for the world\". These reviews and votes can be cast from the site's iPhone app or from the service's homepage. The homepage also features a stream of the latest comments to come in from other users, as well as a profile for each restaurant in the system that includes all of its votes and comments. There's also a nifty feature that lets you view a heatmap of your current region, so you can quickly figure out the hot spots in town.\n\nThe gameplay in GraffitiGeo gives you points for checking into certain locations, similar to FourSquare, but doesn't really let you do anything with them. With GraffitiGeo, you earn points for every action you take, be it voting on a restaurant or leaving a brief comment. Once you've reached a certain point threshold, you can use those points to start a \"mob\", which you can invite your friends to join. Mobs allow friends to pool their points, which can then be used to acquire territory, which corresponds to actual city blocks. Whenever someone votes on one of the restaurants on the block, the mob gets some street cred too. It's definitely going to be confusing at first, but it also brings a team element to gameplay.", "one_liner": "We let you know where to go and what to get once you get there.…", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326790712, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2009", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/graffitigeo", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2009/graffitigeo.json" }, { "id": 274, "name": "Echodio", "slug": "echodio", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/511e33e373ba8cbed610998321772565bd2ea6b2.png", "website": "http://echodio.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Echodio is the easiest way to sync your music library across players, keep your valuable collection safe, and stream to your media center.", "one_liner": "Sync and stream your music across any device. Acquired in 2009. ", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326790876, "tags": [ "Music" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2009", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/echodio", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2009/echodio.json" }, { "id": 283, "name": "OhLife", "slug": "ohlife", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://ohlife.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "OhLife is a personal journal that you'll actually keep. Every day we send you an email asking \"How'd your day go?\" You type as much as you want and hit reply. We accumulate your entire journal through these daily email replies.", "one_liner": "", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326790953, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2008", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ohlife", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2008/ohlife.json" }, { "id": 289, "name": "JustSpotted", "slug": "justspotted", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://justspotted.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Copenhagen, Denmark", "long_description": "The artist-formerly-known-as Scoopler is a real-time search engine. It aggregates and organizes content being shared on the Internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. It does this by constantly indexing live updates from services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. When users search for a topic on Scoopler, they get the most relevant results, updated in real-time.\n\nScoopler has now become JustSpotted, a celebrity-tracking tool, meant to give fans an idea of what their favorite celebrities are up to at any given moment. JustSpotted, like Scoopler, is a data-aggregator, yet JustSpotted collects from Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare -- alongside their own data they’ll be collecting from users who actual spot celebrities in the wild. All the information we aggregate is publicly available and you can even do a search on Twitter yourself and find sightings of celebrities. We're just the first people to organize it on a map and in such a way that it's easy to consume and ENJOY.”\n\nJustSpotted is about connecting with celebs. All the sightings on our website are naturally occurring events where an everyday person bumps into a celebrity as a chance occurrence. Back in the day, when you saw a celebrity while you were out and about the first thing you would have done was phone or text a friend. In the new age of social media, the first thing you do is share it on Facebook or Twitter. This phenomena is already happening.\n\nThe service, which launches the week of October 11, 2010, is the latest creation by AJ Asver, Dilan Jarawardane and Benjamin Tauber.", "one_liner": "Acquired by Google in 2011", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326791006, "tags": [ "Artificial Intelligence", "ML" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2008", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "Denmark", "America / Canada", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/justspotted", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2008/justspotted.json" }, { "id": 293, "name": "Youlicit", "slug": "youlicit", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://youlicit.com", "all_locations": "New York, NY, USA", "long_description": "The Youlicit web content recommendation engine leverages the wisdom of the crowds to return the most recommended sites related to a website or topic. To use Youlicit, simply install a plug-in with the Youlicit buttons on your Firefox browser. These buttons light up, while you surf, and by clicking on them, you instantly get highly relevant recommendations, without searching. It also allows you to discover the web via personalized recommendations based on your interests and find other users interested in the same topics as you.", "one_liner": "", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326791058, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2008", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/youlicit", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2008/youlicit.json" }, { "id": 298, "name": "Popcuts", "slug": "popcuts", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://popcuts.com", "all_locations": "Lucerne Valley, CA, USA", "long_description": "Popcuts is a unique online music store. DRM-free songs are sold for 99cents, but every time a song you bought sells, you get a cut of the proceeds (earlier buyers get a bigger cut).", "one_liner": "Popcuts is an online music store where fans participate in the…", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326791114, "tags": [ "Marketplace", "E-Commerce", "Music" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2008", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/popcuts", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2008/popcuts.json" }, { "id": 302, "name": "Slinkset", "slug": "slinkset", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://slinkset.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Slinkset is a white label social news platform that allows anyone to start a social news site and integrate it into their own website.", "one_liner": "Votable lists", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326791147, "tags": [ "Media", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2008", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/slinkset", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2008/slinkset.json" }, { "id": 310, "name": "Omnisio", "slug": "omnisio", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://omnisio.com", "all_locations": "Atherton, CA, USA", "long_description": "Omnisio was founded in 2007 by Ryan Junee, Simon Ratner and Julian Frumar, and was subsquently acquired by YouTube in July 2008. Omnisio enabled users to annotate and share videos from any website, and enabled markup of the structure within a video.\n\nOn May 13, 2008, Omnisio launched a slide-syncing tool using SlideShare for slides and a host of video services.", "one_liner": "Edit and enhance online video. Acquired by Google in July 2008.", "team_size": 0, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326791209, "tags": [ "Video", "Media" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2008", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/omnisio", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2008/omnisio.json" }, { "id": 315, "name": "Mixwit", "slug": "mixwit", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://cloud.tv", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Mixwit describes itself as a combination of Slide and iTunes. While it has more ambitious plans, it currently provides an easy way to make sharable mix tapes with songs found through MP3 search engines Seeqpod and Skreamr.", "one_liner": "Online mixtape service (create and share mixtapes). 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Shots un-slated, timecodes un-jammed, script supervisor notes incoherent; days wasted on menial tasks.\r\n\r\nWhat if there was a tool to take care of all that?", "one_liner": "video production software", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1755287719, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Video" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cocreate", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2025/cocreate.json" }, { "id": 30870, "name": "Koyal", "slug": "koyal", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d6be5eec5520358437374d48ae33d4a26eadd56.png", "website": "https://koyal.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Koyal is an Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform that allows you to seamlessly convert script or audio into personalized, visually compelling stories. We’re a team from Carnegie Mellon, MIT and Meta, with experience in AI video generation.\r\n\r\nhttps://koyal.ai builds directly upon our published research at the AI conference NeurIPS in December. We’ve been covered in the international press for our patented secure personalization protocol CHARCHA: the genAI captcha.\r\n\r\nAnnouncement: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965866965425348687\r\nDemo: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965137062119752099\r\n\r\n\r\nWe currently have paid pilots with the biggest global music labels, podcasts and production houses, and just launched our public beta at beta.koyal.ai\r\n\r\nWe recently concluded a pilot with Universal Music and T-Series (world’s largest music label) alongside Bollywood production houses like Maddock Entertainment, and Collective Artists Network! As part of that, we launched 5 music videos for Grammy and Oscar winning artists like A R Rahman, Ricky Kej and Shankar Mahadevan all crossing 1.5 million views!\r\n\r\nWe've recently built SOTA capabilities in (i) multilingual script to audio to video, (ii) Agentic lip-sync with dynamic movement & (iii) Multi-character consistency.", "one_liner": "Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform", "team_size": 5, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1759263547, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Entertainment", "Video", "Media", "Creator Economy" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/koyal", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/fall-2025/koyal.json" }, { "id": 30884, "name": "Flick", "slug": "flick", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9f96ddb243962497e60383676b01ce3b0cd4cb76.png", "website": "https://flick.art", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "\r\nFlick is an AI filmmaking software that lets people create Hollywood-level short films completely using AI end-to-end.\r\n\r\nThere are many AI tools that can give you 8-second casual clips to post on social media, but when it comes to creating truly high-quality films with coherent storylines, consistent characters, and cinematic aesthetics, they don’t come close due to their lack of flexibility, creative control, and fragmented creative flow.\r\n\r\nFounded by an award-winning filmmaker and a founding engineer at Instagram, Flick defines an interface specifically designed for native AI filmmaking that feels natural and enables end-to-end creative flows. Think of Flick as Figma for AI filmmaking.\r\n\r\nThere are 4 complete AI short films created using Flick that got 20+ awards in international film festivals already and our early creator residency community are generating several AI short films every week.\r\n\r\nWe are also building a community where we produce our own AI films as well as collaborating with other well-known filmmakers to share their “behind-the-scenes” workflows as resuable templates to inspire users in our community. We not only build product, we also build world-class content.\r\n\r\nThe whole film industry will be revolutionized by AI and our goal is to be “the product” that defines this category.", "one_liner": "Figma + Cursor, for AI Filmmaking", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1759897034, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flick", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/fall-2025/flick.json" }, { "id": 30931, "name": "Pixley AI", "slug": "pixley-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2fed7dace3f2d8cdd9b201c782646c8ba0cc231c.png", "website": "https://pixleyai.com", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "Pixley turns kids' drawings and ideas into fully animated cartoons – in minutes.\r\n\r\nKids are natural storytellers. With Pixley, any kid can draw a character, describe a world, and watch their story come to life as a personalized animated cartoon.\r\n\r\nMost kids' screen time is broken: passive, algorithmic content designed to keep kids watching, not growing. Pixley is the antidote. Every episode is safe, ad-free, and built around Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). Parents can choose any lesson they want to teach their child, and Pixley weaves it naturally into the story their kids create. We're building the creative platform for the next generation – where kids are the directors, not just the audience.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, the same technology powers Pixley Studios, our B2B content service for brands and content creators who want to produce high-quality AI video without the cost or time of traditional production.\r\n\r\nWe’re 19 year old CS dropouts who’ve known each other since elementary school and won 4 hackathons at 15. 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