Swerve

Active

Chat with AI Characters

Winter 2025Founded 20252 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

www.getswerve.com/ ↗LinkedIn ↗See on the Idea Map Consumer momentum

About

Swerve is an AI character chat app that immerses users in rich stories and conversations. Users discover unique AI characters, choose their own persona, and dive into one-on-one or group chats that evolve naturally with no scripts and no limits. Our goal is to make Swerve the most entertaining part of your phone, a place where you step into any world, build stories with characters you connect with, and let every conversation go wherever it leads.

From their website

as of Jun 7, 2026www.getswerve.com ↗

SaaSSubscription

Swerve lets users chat with AI characters, enabling them to choose personas and converse individually or in groups. The product appears to be a chat-based AI character platform with ongoing platform expansion (Android/Web coming soon).

Users can discover unique AI characters, select a persona, and chat one-on-one or in groups within the app. The service emphasizes conversational interaction with AI characters and mentions a companion chat experience, with ongoing platform extensions (Android/Web coming soon).

Features

Discover unique AI characters
Choose and customize personas
One-on-one chat with AI characters
Group chat with AI companions
Support resources and contact options
Coming soon platform expansion (Android/Web)

Unclear traction; mentions coming soon for Android/Web; contact/support emails provided

Founders · 2

Soroush SaryazdiFounder

Stripe

Twitter🎓 Concordia University

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.

LinkedIn ↗X ↗

Jason ZhouFounder

Berkeley

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.

LinkedIn ↗X ↗

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Jul 2025

View launch post ↗

Capture a quick video and choose what you want to see next. Swerve makes it happen!

Swerve offers an iOS app that lets users capture short AI-generated videos with friends, then choose what to see next. It enables following friends and viewing trending clips from the community, highlighting user creativity and social discovery.