Swerve
ActiveChat with AI Characters
This company has previously operated under “Sapien”, “Goldfinch”. A rename frequently marks a pivot in positioning or product — useful raw material for variant ideas.
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.
Founders · 2
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 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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