Excellence Learning YC Application
Excellence Learning went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 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 2025
- Industry
- Education
- Team size
- 4
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2025
Founders
Sovann LindenFounder
Alexis BonnafontFounder
Mattia MauroFounder
What Excellence Learning does
Excellence an after-school maths and science program. We replace/supplement private tutoring and long-term study programs such as Kumon (over 30B TAM). US Parents are our primary customers. Our web and iPad software serves both ambitious and struggling students. As we believe each student is unique, we adapt our high quality courses and exercises to their knowledge and learning style in a very granular way. To facilitate learning, they get detailed text, voice and graphical explanations, can craft study plans, revise and memorize, and received human mentorship if needed. We believe LLMs have made edtech interesting, as technology now allows us to replicate a tutoring learning experience. In addition, we offer a program with daily courses and exercises, detailed feedback on their worksheets and more (super Kumon). Finally we sell the AI tutoring and exercise databases to schools in a B2B and B2B2C model and already work for the most prestigious institutions in France (Ecole polytechnique, college Stanislas...). We're a passionate team of ex-quants, mathematicians and physics champions devoted to improving science education.
Excellence Learning's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Excellence Learning, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Excellence Learning
AI tutor starting with maths and science
We build an AI-powered after-school tutoring platform focused on math and science. Our product adapts courses and exercises granularly to each student's level and learning style. It offers detailed explanations - text, voice, graphics - as well as study plans, revision tools, and human mentorship on demand. We also provide an advanced daily coursework program that goes beyond traditional long-term formats like Kumon. Additionally, we license our AI tutoring and exercise content to schools in a B2B and B2B2C model.
We live and work in Stanford, CA, and will keep the company based here after YC.
Being in Stanford puts us near top technical talent and a strong education ecosystem. It's also where all founders currently live and where we've built early relationships with customers and institutional partners, especially in France.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Excellence Learning YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Excellence Learning's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Excellence Learning would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Excellence Learning in?
Excellence Learning was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2025 batch.
Who founded Excellence Learning?
Excellence Learning was founded by Sovann Linden, Alexis Bonnafont, Mattia Mauro.
What does Excellence Learning do?
AI tutor starting with maths and science
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Excellence Learning's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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