YC Request for Startups: Fall 2025
YC RFSThe Y Combinator Request for Startups, from Fall 2025: 6 ideas YC’s partners want founders to build. Each links to a problem page with more detail, related problems and people working on it.
AI-Powered Vocational Training for the Physical Infrastructure Workforce
The AI buildout needs electricians, HVAC technicians and welders to build data centers and fabs. YC wants AI-powered vocational schools that get people job-ready in months, not years.
Generative Video as a Computing Primitive
Video models already make photorealistic clips that are often hard to tell from real footage. YC wants founders who treat generated video as a basic building block for software, not just an output.
The $100B Company with 10 People
AI tools let small, high-agency teams scale with far fewer people. YC wants to fund the first 10-person, $100B company, built on as little as $500k.
Infrastructure for Multi-Agent AI Systems
AI agents are turning into distributed workflows that fan out many sub-agents at once. YC wants tools that make running agent fleets as routine as deploying a web service.
The AI-Native Salesforce
Salesforce and ServiceNow rode the cloud shift past the incumbents. YC sees AI as the same once-in-a-generation opening to rebuild enterprise software: think Cursor for sales, HR and accounting.
Replace $100B in Government Consulting with AI
The US government spends over $100 billion a year on consulting. YC wants startups whose LLM software does the work that firms like Deloitte and Accenture do for government today.