OpenCurriculum YC Application

Winter 2014Active

OpenCurriculum 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
Status: Active
Launched: 2013

Founders

Varun AroraFounder/Founding Director

What OpenCurriculum does

A library of community curated teaching and learning materials, free to the entire world. Come collaborate; we can teach better together. OpenCurriculum, Inc. is a California based technology nonprofit organization with a mission to bring openness and innovation to K12 education around the world

OpenCurriculum's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

OpenCurriculum

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Free, community-curated K-12 teaching materials

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

We built a platform where K-12 teachers and school admins can find, share, and improve teaching materials collaboratively. It's a free library that lets educators work together to build better lesson plans and resources. We focus on openness and community contributions to improve educational content at scale.

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

We currently live in Mountain View, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Mountain View gives us access to a strong technical community and is central to where we live and work. We want to stay rooted here to stay close to our team and resources.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real OpenCurriculum YC application?

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