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YC Education Companies
90 Y Combinator education startups with verified founder contacts, batch info, and company data.
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70
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9
Acquired
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YC Company Directory
50 companies
Company | Batch | Description | Status | Location | Team | Site | Founders | Reveal |
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Alice.tech | W25 | AI-driven exam prep | Active | Copenhagen, Denmark | 5 | Kim Rants | Reveal | |
Edexia | W25 | AI Teacher Assistant for Grading Essays | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 4 | Daniel Gibbon, Nathan Wang | Reveal | |
Excellence Learning | W25 | AI tutor starting with maths and science | Active | Stanford, CA, USA | 4 | Sovann Linden, Alexis Bonnafont, Mattia Mauro | Reveal | |
GradeWiz | W25 | AI Grading for Teachers | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 2 | Max Bohun | Reveal | |
Miyagi Labs | W25 | AI tutors for exam prep | Active | — | 2 | Tyrone Davis III, Guang Cui | Reveal | |
MathDash | W24 | Learning Platform for Math Competitions | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 2 | Daniel Sun, Akshaj Kadaveru | Reveal | |
Mathos | W24 | Ultimate AI Math Problem Solver to Revolutionize Personalized Learning | Active | Santa Clara, CA, USA | 5 | Tianwei Yue | Reveal | |
SuperKalam | W23 | AI-Powered Super Mentor for Test Prep | Active | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | 20 | Vimal Singh Rathore, Aseem Gupta | Reveal | |
Univerbal | W23 | Language learning with a conversational AI Tutor | Active | Zürich, Switzerland | 3 | Philipp Hadjimina, Samuel Bissegger, David Niederberger | Reveal | |
AntWalk | W22 | An employee up-skilling platform for fast growing companies | Inactive | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | 50 | Joybroto Ganguly | Reveal | |
Avocademy | W22 | We teach UX/UI design and then help people get great jobs. | Active | Miami, FL, USA | 6 | Maca Baigorria, Alexandra Amico | Reveal | |
Darsel | W22 | Chatbot teaching K12 math in developing countries | Active | — | 5 | Abdulhamid Haidar | Reveal | |
Koala | W22 | Minecraft for Teachers | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 11 | Xavier Lesage Moretti, Benjamin Roux | Reveal | |
Marathon Education | W22 | We provide live after-school tutoring to K-12 students in Vietnam | Inactive | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | 20 | Duc Pham, Tung Tran | Reveal | |
MySivi | W22 | MySivi - AI English Speaking Practice App | Active | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | 10 | Akshay Sanghai, Shivam Gupta, Anoop Jaiswal | Reveal | |
Skillza | W22 | Skillza builds simple tools for teachers and schools in MEA | Inactive | Dubai - United Arab Emirates | 20 | Anand Bhashyam | Reveal | |
Toko | W22 | Learn English by speaking with an AI | Active | New York, NY, USA | 5 | Jen Liu, Erica Du | Reveal | |
Avion School | W21 | We teach Filipinos to become remote software engineers globally. | Inactive | Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines | 4 | John Young | Reveal | |
Awari | W21 | Reinventing lifelong learning for the future of work. | Acquired | São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil | 35 | Fabio Muniz | Reveal | |
Coderhouse | W21 | Effective and accessible online live education. | Active | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 225 | Christian Patiño, Nahuel Lema | Reveal | |
Codingal | W21 | Leading online after-school for kids & teens to learn AI & coding | Active | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | 60 | Vivek Prakash, Satyam Baranwal | Reveal | |
Degrees of Freedom | W21 | DoF provides a high quality, affordable higher education alternative. | Inactive | New York, NY, USA | 7 | Chandell Stone, S. Aaron Andrew, Jazel Smith | Reveal | |
FunctionUp (FanPlay) | W21 | A skill-tech platform that runs placement bootcamps | Acquired | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | 20 | Bharat Gupta, Pritesh Kumar | Reveal | |
Kidato | W21 | Online school for K12 education in Africa | Active | Nairobi, Kenya | 15 | Sam Gichuru | Reveal | |
Kiwify | W21 | Create & sell online courses | Active | Balneário Camboriú - State of Santa Catarina, Brazil | 200 | Artur Ribas, Marinho Gomes | Reveal | |
Poliglota | W21 | The online language school for Latam, with groups led by an instructor | Active | Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile | 170 | Nicolas Fuenzalida, Carlos Aravena, Jose Sanchez | Reveal | |
Prendea | W21 | Live afterschool classes for Spanish-speaking kids ages 4 to 15. | Inactive | Barranco, Peru | 5 | Gonzalo Aguilar, Benjamin Garmendia | Reveal | |
Turing College | W21 | AI-driven online tech school for busy professionals | Active | Vilnius, Lithuania | 50 | Tomas Moska, Benas Sidlauskas | Reveal | |
Unschool | W21 | Learn, Intern and become Industry-Ready | Active | Hyderabad, Telangana, India | 35 | Rahul Varma, Narayanan (Rayn) Subramaniam | Reveal | |
EduRev | W20 | Learning App for 400M Indian Students like a Netflix for Education | Active | Chandigarh, India | 24 | Hardik Dhamija, Kunaal Satija | Reveal | |
Ello | W20 | Building the world's first 1:1 AI teacher. | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 45 | Elizabeth Adams, Tom Sayer, Catalin Voss | Reveal | |
Pahamify | W20 | College entrance test preparation App for students in Indonesia | Active | North Bogor, Bogor City, West Java, Indonesia | 40 | Edria Albert, Syarif Rousyan Fikri | Reveal | |
StayQrious | W20 | StayQrious helps kids in India learn through online group classes,… | Active | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | 29 | Shankar Ram A, Avinash Anand, Aanand Srinivas | Reveal | |
AccioJob | W19 | Upskilling bootcamp for India | Active | Gurugram, Haryana, India | 250 | Vishu Bansal, Harsh Sharma, Priyanshu Agarwal, Yashwardhan Burad | Reveal | |
Edyst | W19 | Edyst is a peer-to-peer online learning platform where students learn… | Active | Hyderabad, Telangana, India | 11 | Srinivas Sriramdas | Reveal | |
Our World in Data | W19 | Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest… | Active | Oxford, UK | 19 | Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Hannah Ritchie, Max Roser | Reveal | |
Schoolable | W19 | Tuition collection service for K-12 private schools in Africa | Active | Lagos, Nigeria | 10 | Henry Nnalue, Angela Essien | Reveal | |
Skill-lync | W19 | Online engineering college for India. Learn technical skills & get… | Active | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | 3000 | Surya Paneerselvam, Sarang | Reveal | |
Acely | W18 | Every student's AI coach for college readiness | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 30 | Vivian Midha Shen | Reveal | |
Glimpse K12 | W18 | Glimpse eliminates ineffective spending in schools. | Acquired | Huntsville, AL, USA | 6 | Nicole Pezent | Reveal | |
NEXGENT | W18 | — | Active | San Jose, CA, USA | 25 | Terry Kim, Jacob Hess | Reveal | |
Dost Education | W17 | Getting kids ready for school in India. | Active | Delhi, India | 30 | Sneha Sheth, Sindhuja Jeyabal | Reveal | |
KidPass | W17 | Online & In-Person Kids Activities | Acquired | New York, NY, USA | 21 | Solomon Liou, Chhay Chhun, Aaron Kaufman | Reveal | |
LendEDU | W16 | LendEDU is a marketplace for consumer financial products. | Acquired | Hoboken, NJ, USA | 10 | Matthew Lenhard | Reveal | |
Platzi | W15 | Latin America's School of Technology | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 300 | Freddy Vega, Christian Van Der Henst | Reveal | |
Cambly | W14 | On-demand access to English tutors over video chat. | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 200 | Kevin Law, Sameer Shariff | Reveal | |
Make School | W12 | Make School is redesigning college for the 21st century. Students… | Inactive | 555 Post St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA | 45 | Ashutosh Desai, Jeremy Rossmann | Reveal | |
Frizzle | S25 | AI Grading for Teachers | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 2 | Abhay Gupta, Shyam Sai | Reveal | |
Risely AI | S25 | AI agents that automate administrative work across college campuses. | Active | — | 9 | Shahryar Abbasi, Sadia Saifuddin | Reveal | |
Educato | S24 | Worldwide exam-prep platform | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 5 | Codrut Lemeni, Felix Gabler | Reveal |
Status Breakdown
About YC Education Companies
Y Combinator has funded 90 education companies since its founding in 2005. These startups span from early-stage pre-launch to publicly traded companies, making YC one of the most prolific backers of education innovation globally.
70 of these companies are currently active. 9 have been acquired. VCBacked tracks verified founder contact information, team sizes, and company status for every YC education startup.
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