Scrimba YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Scrimba went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2020
Industry: Education
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Per Harald BorgenFounder
Sindre AarsaetherFounder
Frode JensenFounder

What Scrimba does

Scrimba is a coding course platform with over 120K monthly active students. It's based on a new video format that makes the screencasts fully interactive for students, and easier to create for teachers. Our vision is to create a coding school that has the quality of Stanford but the price of a gym membership.

Scrimba's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Scrimba, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Scrimba

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Interactive coding screencasts for developers

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

We built a platform that offers coding courses using a unique video format that lets students pause and edit code directly in the screencast. This makes learning code faster and cheaper because students can practice actively without switching tools. Teachers can create these interactive lessons more easily than traditional video tutorials.

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

We're based in Oslo, Norway, and plan to stay here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're all located in Oslo and have built the product from here with our small team. Staying here keeps our team close and maintains our current momentum.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Scrimba YC application?

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