Platzi YC Application
Platzi went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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 2015
- Industry
- Education
- Team size
- 300
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2014
Founders
Freddy VegaFounder/CEO
Christian Van Der HenstFounder
What Platzi does
Platzi cracked online education. It teaches courses on design, marketing and programming with a 70% completion rate, to over one million students worldwide. The classes include real-time collaboration among students and industry leaders as teachers. It aims to be the professional home for lifelong learning of advanced skills.
Platzi's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Platzi, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Platzi
Latin America's School of Technology
Platzi is an online learning platform focused on technology skills like design, marketing, and programming. We teach live and recorded courses with real-time collaboration between students and industry leaders as teachers. Our platform encourages community and has a 70% course completion rate, which is rare in online education.
We currently live and work distributed across San Francisco, Santiago, Mexico City, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Lima and remotely. After YC, the company would be based in San Francisco.
We chose to base the company in San Francisco post-YC to be closer to technology investors, partners, and the global tech community. Our team remains distributed across Latin America and Spain to serve our audience effectively and maintain our roots.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Platzi YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Platzi's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Platzi would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Platzi in?
Platzi was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2015 batch.
Who founded Platzi?
Platzi was founded by Freddy Vega, Christian Van Der Henst.
What does Platzi do?
Latin America's School of Technology
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Platzi's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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