Sapien
YC S25 · Active · Synthetic populations for decisions
Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
 MotivesShared: focus groupActiveAI, Data | AI, Data | Active | YCS25 |
 Artificial SocietiesShared: focus group, decision, simulateActiveAI, Data | AI, Data | Active | YCW25 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
 Forage MailShared: not anotherInactiveAI | AI | Inactive | YCS21 |
 IntellaShared: focus group, surveyNot statedAI | AI | Not stated | 500 Global2023 |
 ShimmerShared: not another, groupActiveOther | Other | Active | YCS21 |
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Founders
- Saif ElhagerFounder/CEO
- Ahmed ElShireefFounder/CTO
About Sapien
Surveys ask people what they think they’ll do. Focus groups ask a handful of people to explain behavior they often don’t understand themselves. Sapien simulates entire populations instead. We create AI agents that model how real audiences behave, letting companies, governments, and investors test decisions in minutes: what product to launch, what price to set, what campaign to run, what policy will work, or how a market will move. The output is not another dashboard. It’s a prediction of what will happen, which segments will drive it, and what decision is most likely to win.
- YC batch
- S25 · Summer 2025
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- AI
- Team size
- 2
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Founded
- 2025
- Checked
- 1h ago
YC tags: Artificial Intelligence
Sapien: questions
Which YC batch was Sapien in?
Sapien was in Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch (S25).
Is Sapien still active?
Y Combinator lists Sapien as active.
Who founded Sapien?
Sapien's founders, as listed on its YC page: Saif Elhager (Founder/CEO), Ahmed ElShireef (Founder/CTO).
Where is Sapien based?
Sapien lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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