About Swerve
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.
Company details
Funding
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Jason Zhou
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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Soroush Saryazdi
Co-founder of Swerve (YC W25). Previously led AI/Neural Networks at Matic, building perception systems for autonomous home robots. Co-authored GradSLAM (1.4K GitHub stars) and has published at RSS. Holds an M.S. in CS from Concordia University.
LinkedInWhat happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.