One Degree YC Application

Winter 2014Active

One Degree went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2014 batch as a Unspecified 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 2014
Industry: Unspecified
Team size: 14
Status: Active
Launched: 2013

Founders

Rey FaustinoFounder/CEO

What One Degree does

One Degree is a technology driven nonprofit organization that helps individuals and families access the resources they need to improve their lives and achieve social and economic mobility. One Degree's mission is to empower people to create a path out of poverty for themselves and for their communities. Our core product is a web and mobile platform makes it easy for low-income families to find, manage, and review nonprofit and government services. Our platform has become the go-to tool for help-seekers - and the people who support them, such as case managers and social workers - throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles County in California, and in Gainesville, Florida. We currently operate three major products: the One Degree website and Android and iOS apps. Thousands of people in the Bay Area and Los Angeles rely on One Degree’s website and apps to access health care, food banks, employment services, and much more. We also support communities around the country to start their own One Degree chapters.

One Degree's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

One Degree, Winter 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

One Degree

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Tech nonprofit helping families access services

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

We're building a web and mobile platform that makes it easy for low-income families to find, manage, and review nonprofit and government services. Our apps help people in places like the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Gainesville connect to food banks, health care, and employment resources.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we started and where our largest user base is. Being local helps us work directly with social workers and community organizations.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real One Degree YC application?

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