Pantheon YC Application

Winter 2020Inactive

Pantheon went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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: Winter 2020
Industry: Education
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2020

Founders

Ali AhmedCo-Founder
Akshath SivaprasadFounder

What Pantheon does

Pantheon is an online competitive community of the brightest students in the world. High school and middle school students match with each other based on skill level and compete head-to-head in real-time to see who can answer questions fastest, much like offline competitions such as Science Bowl.

Pantheon's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Pantheon, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pantheon

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Competitive community of top students

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

We built Pantheon, an online platform where middle and high school students compete head-to-head in real-time to answer academic questions fastest. It matches students by skill level and recreates the feel of offline competitions like Science Bowl.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and would keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the technical talent and startup ecosystem we need to grow Pantheon. Being here connects us to investors and early users.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pantheon YC application?

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