# Narrative

> Narrative is a San Diego and San Francisco based Y Combinator (Fall 2025) startup building AI-powered infrastructure for sports content creation. Its platform turns live broadcasts into publish-ready highlight clips in under 30 seconds and gives professional video editors an AI editor - described as 'Cursor for professional video editing' - that adds b-roll from transcripts, searches large video libraries in natural language, and batches edits through chat. Narrative sells both an editor product and a video-editing/clipping API to broadcasters, teams, and leagues.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Diego, California, United States
- **Founders:** Erik Vank (CEO & Co-Founder (previously at Apple; Brown University)), Aryan Sawhney (CTO & Co-Founder (computer vision / SWE research; previously RevisionDojo, Logseq, Haleum)), Victor Chapman (Co-Founder (University of Washington))
- **Team size:** 3-4
- **Products:** Narrative AI Editor, Real-time Highlights, Video Editing & Clipping API
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Fall 2025 (F25) batch., Raised seed funding from Y Combinator and Pioneer Fund (Nov 2025)., Featured by Sports Video Group as a New Sponsor Spotlight, with a CEO interview on real-time AI highlights (Jan 2026).

## Products & services

- **Narrative AI Editor** — An AI-powered video editor for sports content - described by YC as 'Cursor for professional video editing.' It adds b-roll to timelines from transcripts, searches large video libraries in natural language, pulls selects, creates social stringouts, and batches iterations through conversational chat.
- **Real-time Highlights** — Turns live sports broadcasts into publish-ready highlight clips in under 30 seconds, capturing not just the play but the celebration and crowd reaction.
- **Video Editing & Clipping API** — AI video-processing infrastructure and APIs built for scale, letting businesses generate and distribute sports content programmatically.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Fall 2025 (F25) batch.
- Raised seed funding from Y Combinator and Pioneer Fund (Nov 2025).
- Featured by Sports Video Group as a New Sponsor Spotlight, with a CEO interview on real-time AI highlights (Jan 2026).
- Launched an AI Editor that produces sports highlights in seconds.
- Described by Y Combinator as 'Cursor for professional video editing.'

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Sports Video Group publishes a New Sponsor Spotlight interview with CEO Erik Vank on using AI to power real-time sports highlights.
- **2025-11** — Narrative raises seed funding from Y Combinator and Pioneer Fund.
- **2025-10** — Narrative publicly announces its AI editor for sports content; YC calls it 'Cursor for professional video editing.'

## Links

- Website: https://www.narrative-sports.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/usenarrative

---

Profile page: https://yespress.io/narrative-yc-f25
Published by YesPress — https://yespress.io
Last updated: 2026-07-30