Shepherd YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Shepherd went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry: Education
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Kehinde Williams
Marcella Imoisili
Moyosoreoluwa Orekoya

What Shepherd does

Shepherd is a Learning assistant for schools to provide to their students. Shepherd seamlessly combines AI-enabled self-study, affordable tutoring, peer collaboration, and analytics for a personalized learning experience that is both efficient and effective.

Shepherd's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Shepherd, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Shepherd

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Every student's personalized learning assistant

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

We built Shepherd, a learning assistant schools provide to students. It combines AI self-study tools, affordable tutoring, peer collaboration, and analytics to give students personalized learning experiences that actually work for them.

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

We are fully remote now, and we plan to remain remote after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We all live remotely and collaborate well across locations. Staying remote lets us hire the best people and work efficiently without moving.

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 Shepherd YC application?

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