Ora AI YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Ora AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: Education
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Ryan PhelpsFounder
Kevin BastoulFounder
Jacob CaccamoFounder

What Ora AI does

Ora is an AI-native education platform that students love. We're starting with medical school, training students from matriculation to MD. Soon, we'll serve every corner of the $830B higher education market.

Ora AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Ora AI, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Ora AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Med school can be simpler

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

We are building an AI-native education platform that helps medical students from day one of med school through to their MD. Our product adapts to each student's learning style and needs, making a notoriously difficult path clearer and more manageable. Eventually, we plan to expand to cover the larger higher education market.

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

We live and operate in San Francisco, CA, and we plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose San Francisco because it's the best place to recruit technical talent and connect with investors who understand AI and education markets.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Ora AI YC application?

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