Skill-lync YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Skill-lync went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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 2019
Industry: Education
Team size: 3000
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Surya PaneerselvamFounder
SarangFounder

What Skill-lync does

Skill-Lync provides job leading engineering education online. We started with a special focus in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Civil & Computer Science engineering and have become one of the world's leading & highest rated platforms in teaching high-end technical skills that help students get a job.

Skill-lync's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Skill-lync, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Skill-lync

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Online engineering college for India

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

We offer an online platform that teaches mechanical, electrical, electronics, civil, and computer science engineering skills, specifically designed around what companies want. Our courses focus on real-world projects and job-ready technical skills to help engineering students secure engineering jobs in India.

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

We live in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Chennai is where we started, it's home to our founders and core team, and it's where we have built our network and initial user base. Staying here lets us focus on solving the local engineering education gap with minimal distractions.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Skill-lync YC application?

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