Aspect Inc. Secures $500,000 Y Combinator Investment for AI Post-Production Agents

Aspect Inc., a startup focused on revolutionizing video post-production, has secured a $500,000 investment from Y Combinator. The funding will support the company's development of AI agents designed to automate non-creative tasks for post-production teams, from content ingest to final delivery. The investment, part of Y Combinator's standard deal, includes $125,000 for 7% equity and an additional $375,000 on an uncapped Most Favored Nation (MFN) safe.

Post-production supervisors and assistants currently face a deluge of manual, time-consuming tasks, including organizing folders, meticulously checking revisions, sifting through old content, and updating data across multiple project management tools. This administrative burden often detracts from creative work, a challenge that Aspect aims to alleviate. The company noted that "the work after production is still tedious and split over multiple discrete tools," keeping creatives from their core passion.

Aspect's innovative platform leverages AI agents equipped with "humanlike visual-temporal understanding" to streamline these workflows. According to a tweet from Y Combinator, these agents are capable of tasks such as "retriev[ing] second-accurate clips, assembl[ing] rough cuts, check[ing] revisions against notes, and sync[ing] to other business tools." This automation is intended to function like a post-production teammate, scaling infinitely across various tools.

The company is targeting the rapidly expanding $200 billion video production industry, where the demand for video content continues to surge, further amplified by generative AI. Aspect aims to establish an "autonomous layer" for post-production, providing a single source of truth for teams and capturing the entire workflow from ingest to final delivery, thereby allowing creative professionals to focus on artistic endeavors.

Founded in 2025 by Edison Chiu, Gurish Sharma, and Bright Xu, Aspect Inc. currently operates with a lean team of three employees. The Y Combinator backing positions the nascent company to further develop its AI-driven solutions and expand its presence in the media technology sector.