Pathrise YC Application

Summer 2017Inactive

Pathrise went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2017 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 2017
Industry: Education
Team size: 55
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2017

Founders

Kevin WuFounder/CEO
Evan LimantoFounder

What Pathrise does

Pathrise is a career accelerator where you don't pay unless you land a job. Job seekers sign up for Pathrise to get weekly career coaching, access the Pathrise network and use our job search automation software.

Pathrise's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Pathrise, Summer 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pathrise

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

YC for your career

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

We built a career accelerator that helps job seekers land tech jobs by providing weekly career coaching, a network of mentors, and job search automation tools. Our model means candidates don't pay until they get a job, aligning our incentives with their success.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco puts us at the center of the tech ecosystem where most of our users are and where our team can connect directly with mentors and companies hiring tech talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pathrise YC application?

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