Launch Films, Y Combinator
Launch Films, Y Combinator
YC Launch Videos
YC Launch Videos
Founder launch films for five companies in the Y Combinator W26 batch, from AI agents to dev infrastructure to hardware.
Founder launch films for five companies in the Y Combinator W26 batch, from AI agents to dev infrastructure to hardware.
The challenge
The challenge
Five YC W26 companies, each with a technical product and a narrow launch window. Every one needed a film that made a complex idea legible in under two minutes, built fast enough to ship on launch day.
Five YC W26 companies, each with a technical product and a narrow launch window. Every one needed a film that made a complex idea legible in under two minutes, built fast enough to ship on launch day.
Five YC W26 companies, each with a technical product and a narrow launch window. Every one needed a film that made a complex idea legible in under two minutes, built fast enough to ship on launch day.
YC Founder
YC Founder
The Journey
The Journey
We take a complex product and turn it into a launch film the ecosystem actually watches. Narrative and script on one side, camera and edit on the other.
The Brief
Working alongside YC startups, spanning AI agents, dev infrastructure, hardware, and e-commerce. Each had a technical product and a narrow launch window, and each needed one idea made legible in under two minutes.
The Approach
Narrative and script on one side, camera and edit on the other. For each company we found the idea the product turns on, then built the film around it. Tight script, clean shoot, fast edit, made to travel on the feeds and in the DMs where launches actually land.
The Brief
Working alongside YC startups, spanning AI agents, dev infrastructure, hardware, and e-commerce. Each had a technical product and a narrow launch window, and each needed one idea made legible in under two minutes.
The Approach
Narrative and script on one side, camera and edit on the other. For each company we found the idea the product turns on, then built the film around it. Tight script, clean shoot, fast edit, made to travel on the feeds and in the DMs where launches actually land.
"Motion is what makes an early company look inevitable. It travels: data rooms, feeds, and DMs."
"Motion is what makes an early company look inevitable. It travels: data rooms, feeds, and DMs."
YC Founder
YC Founder
"Motion is what makes an early company look inevitable. It travels: data rooms, feeds, and DMs."
YC Founder
Selected launch videos:
Lance: AI agents for hotel operations, fresh off a $5M raise.
Haladir: operational superintelligence for logistics and manufacturing.
REV1: 3D CAD models turned into production-ready engineering drawings.
Return Signals: an AI post-purchase concierge for DTC brands.
Terminal Use: hosting infrastructure for background agents on the Claude and Codex SDKs.
The Result
Each company walked into launch day with a film that made the product impossible to misread.
Selected launch videos:
Lance: AI agents for hotel operations, fresh off a $5M raise.
Haladir: operational superintelligence for logistics and manufacturing.
REV1: 3D CAD models turned into production-ready engineering drawings.
Return Signals: an AI post-purchase concierge for DTC brands.
Terminal Use: hosting infrastructure for background agents on the Claude and Codex SDKs.
The Result
Each company walked into launch day with a film that made the product impossible to misread.
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