Narrative

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AI-Powered Sports Highlights

Fall 2025Founded 20253 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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About

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

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as of Jun 7, 2026www.narrative-sports.com ↗

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Narrative AI is an AI-powered platform that transforms live sports broadcasts into publish-ready highlights in under 30 seconds. It positions itself as a fast, automated content creation tool for sports highlights and is backed by Y Combinator.

The platform analyzes live game broadcasts and automatically generates short highlight clips suitable for publishing within 30 seconds, enabling rapid content creation for sports media and teams.

Who it’s for: Sports media brands, broadcasters, teams, and content creators needing quick turnaround highlights from live games.

Features

AI-powered highlight extraction
Automated edit generation
Publish-ready video outputs
Rapid 30-second turnaround
Support for sports broadcast feeds
YC-backed credibility

Backed by Y Combinator

Founders · 3

Erik VankFounder

Apple

Building the future of sports content | prev @ Apple

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Victor ChapmanFounder

Building the future of sports content

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Aryan SawhneyFounder

Building the future of sports content | Prev @ RevisionDojo (F24), Logseq and Haleum (W25)

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Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Nov 2025

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Edit terabytes of footage in seconds

Narrative offers a post-production automation platform for professional video editing. It automates repetitive tasks—adding b-roll via transcripts, fast search of terabytes of footage by natural language, and creating selects and stringouts—targeting corporate studios, wedding videographers, and sports teams, with upcoming video editing and clipping APIs for businesses.