Coursedog YC Application

Winter 2019Acquired

Coursedog went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 batch as a B2B 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: Winter 2019
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 100
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2018

Founders

Nicholas DiaoFounder & CTO
Justin WenigFounder

What Coursedog does

Academic operating system for higher education institutions. $100m investment from JMI.

Coursedog's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Coursedog, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Coursedog

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Higher Ed's Best Friend - integrated academic ops software

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

We're building an academic operating system for higher education institutions that integrates course scheduling, catalog management, and classroom utilization. It helps registrars, schedulers, and administrators streamline complex academic operations in one platform.

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

We live and work in New York, NY, and plan to keep the company based there after YC, with a remote-friendly team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York has a strong higher education tech ecosystem, and both of us have personal ties here. Remote work expands our talent pool beyond the city.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Coursedog YC application?

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