Dost Education YC Application

Winter 2017Active

Dost Education went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2017 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: Winter 2017
Industry: Education
Team size: 30
Status: Active
Launched: 2016

Founders

Sneha ShethFounder/CEO
Sindhuja JeyabalFounder

What Dost Education does

Dost is an ed-tech nonprofit building a platform to expand access to early childhood development in low-resource settings through parent education. Our mission is to unlock children’s full potential by focusing on early learning - the time when 90% of our brains develop. We believe that parents of any literacy level can play a critical role in developing their children’s school and life readiness. In India alone, there are 150 million under-resourced caregivers who can benefit from resources developed for them. That’s why our team at Dost Education - educators, entrepreneurs, and engineers - are passionate about using technology and user-centric product design to change the trajectory of families’ lives. Since 2017, we’ve grown from a small pilot with a few hundred mothers, to reaching over 100,000 families working with state governments. Join us as we continue to innovate, grow our reach, and deepen our impact. We are supported by some of the best funders in tech and social impact space like Y Combinator, Mulago, and many others. Dost Education values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Dost Education's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Dost Education, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Dost Education

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Getting kids ready for school in India.

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

We're building an ed-tech platform that teaches parents in low-resource settings how to support their young children's early learning and development. The product provides accessible, easy-to-understand content to caregivers of any literacy level, focused on school readiness for kids in India.

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

We live in Delhi, India, and the company is based in Delhi and partially remote.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Delhi offers proximity to key Indian government partners and a growing tech and education community. Remote work lets us tap into talent across the country.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Dost Education YC application?

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