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.
Swerve is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI Chat & Stories. The founders listed are Soroush Saryazdi (Founder), Jason Zhou (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, July 24, 2025).
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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.
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Swerve: AI Chat & Stories | Official Swerve AI App
The official Swerve AI character chat app. Discover unique characters, create your own persona, and chat one-on-one or in groups. Free on the iOS App Store.
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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.
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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