Lingt YC Application

Summer 2009Active

Lingt went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2009 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 2009
Industry: Education
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2012

Founders

Justin CannonFounder

What Lingt does

Lingt empowers teachers to speak more with their students. Create and manage online speaking assignments for use in the classroom.

Lingt's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lingt, Summer 2009 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lingt

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Web platform for classroom speaking assignments

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

We built Lingt to let language teachers create, assign, and manage speaking exercises online. Students record and submit spoken responses, and teachers can review and provide feedback all through the platform. It's designed specifically to get students speaking more in language classes and make spoken practice simpler to organize and assess.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco gives us access to talent, early users, and the startup community we need. It's where we live and work now, so it makes sense to build here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lingt YC application?

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