Poliglota YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Poliglota went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: Education
Team size: 170
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Nicolas FuenzalidaFounder
Carlos AravenaFounder
Jose SanchezFounder

What Poliglota does

Poliglota is the online language school for Latam, where group classes are led by an instructor. Over 12,000 students have paid us $500 to learn english in order to get a higher income. We offer an online service of personalized language sessions with small groups of people of the same level, guided by expert language coaches that we train in our social methodology.

Poliglota's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Poliglota, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Poliglota

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Online language school with instructor-led groups in Latam

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

We built an online platform for Latam where people learn English in small instructor-led groups. Our expert language coaches, trained in our own social methodology, guide personalized sessions to help students improve their English to increase their income opportunities.

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

We live in Santiago, Chile, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We built for Latam, and Santiago is where our team and users are. Being here allows us to stay close to our market and iterate quickly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Poliglota YC application?

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