Kurios YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Kurios 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

Carlos LauFounder and CEO
Luis Ubillas DoorFounder

What Kurios does

Kurios is cohort based online courses for professionals in Latin America. Our instructors are professionals coming out of tech companies like Google, Amazon, Stripe and more. Our course completion rate is 90% and annual customer retention rate is 100%. We have 65 B2B customers and we up-skill their employees in product management, growth and data analytics, just to start with. Some customers: Walmart Mexico, Banorte (2nd bank in Mexico), Mercado Libre, BCP (#1 bank in Peru), Alicorp (leading CPG in Latam), Sura (leading pension fund), etc.

Kurios's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Kurios

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Cohort-based online courses for LatAm professionals

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

We run cohort-based courses online, taught by professionals from tech companies like Google, Amazon, and Stripe. Our platform helps employees at Latin American companies upskill in product management, growth, and data analytics with a focus on completion and retention.

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

We live in Lima, Peru, and the company is based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Lima is where our team is based and where many of our customers are. It lets us work closely with Latin American businesses and professionals.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Kurios YC application?

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