AlgoUniversity YC Application

Summer 2021Active

AlgoUniversity went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 batch as a Education company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2021
Industry: Education
Team size: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Manas Kumar VermaFounder
Swapnil DagaFounder

What AlgoUniversity does

We are building live teaching infrastructure that enables handful of top educators (from Google, Facebook, etc) to coach a large number of students. We train college students in a year-long live cohorts and they pay us a portion of their salary as fees once they get a tech job (Income Sharing Agreement)

AlgoUniversity's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

AlgoUniversity, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

AlgoUniversity

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Job driven Virtual Tech University for India

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build live teaching infrastructure that connects a handful of top educators from big tech to coach large cohorts of Indian college students. Our product runs year-long live cohorts where students learn and pay us a portion of their salary once they get hired through income sharing agreements.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and are based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, and the company remains headquartered here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

India has a huge supply of college students who need job-driven tech education. Hyderabad is a growing tech hub with access to top educators and talent. Keeping the company here keeps us close to our users and educators.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real AlgoUniversity YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from AlgoUniversity's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like AlgoUniversity would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.