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Weave

DefunctYC S14

San Francisco, US · 11 employees · 12 known investors

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Weave is an AI-assisted professional networking service that sends users a personalized professional introduction each week.

Also known as WeaveNow, Inc. · weaveos.com

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S14)

BMBrian Ma
Brian MaFounderBrian Ma founded Weave, a professional networking service from Y Combinator's S14 batch, and previously founded Decide.com, an e-commerce price prediction tool acquired by eBay. He has also worked at Zillow and Microsoft, and studied at the University of Washington.
CBClint Berry
Clint BerryCTO
ECElpizo Choi
Elpizo ChoiCTO2013–2016Founding Capital Partner at ITERATIVE

Investors · 12

The YC application· Summer 2014 batch

Weave's Application Video for YC W14

Y Combinator

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

The subject of this profile is Weave at the domain weave.in, a San Francisco-based company linked to founder Brian Ma and described internally as generating automated weekly professional introductions for users to facilitate networking connections.

None of the source documents retrieved for this profile describe that company. The available sources cover unrelated entities and topics that share the "Weave" name: getweave.com, a patient-communication and payments platform for healthcare practices; weaveos.com, a Y Combinator (Winter 2025) engineering-intelligence startup in San Francisco founded by Adam Cohen and Andrew Churchill that raised a $13.5M Series A in July 2026; and dictionary and encyclopedia entries for the common English word "weave." Because these are distinct organizations from weave.in, no rounds, metrics, events, or company-specific narrative details have been drawn from them.

As a result, this profile contains no externally sourced facts, and its completeness is limited to the internally held record.

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Risks & controversies

The name "Weave" is shared by multiple unrelated organizations, including a healthcare communications platform (getweave.com) and a Y Combinator-backed engineering-intelligence startup (weaveos.com), which creates a substantial risk of record conflation in databases and news coverage.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Founder mafia

2 people who came through Weave went on to found or lead other companies.

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corporate structure
WeaveNow, Inc.

▸Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Weave do?
Weave (weave.in) is a San Francisco company associated with founder Brian Ma; no public sources in this set describe it.
Who founded Weave?
Weave was founded by Brian Ma.
Who are Weave's investors?
Weave's investors include East 11 Ventures, Y Combinator, Eastlink Capital Partners, Florence Venture Capital, Focal Ventures, Fuel Capital, Index Ventures, Joyance Partners and 4 more.
Where is Weave headquartered?
Weave is headquartered in San Francisco, US.