Study Edge YC Application

Summer 2012Acquired

Study Edge went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2012 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 2012
Industry: Education
Team size: 50
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Ethan FieldmanFounder

What Study Edge does

Study Edge is a leading education company that develops and distributes customized content (primarily video) for courses at the middle-school, high-school, and collegiate levels, in partnership with universities, state education agencies, and other institutions.

Study Edge's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Study Edge, Summer 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Study Edge

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Custom video content for education courses

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

We build customized video content and study materials tailored to specific courses at middle school, high school, and college levels. Our product combines course-specific tutoring with institution partnerships to help students improve their performance where standard textbooks and lectures fall short.

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

We live in Gainesville, FL, and would continue to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Gainesville is our home and close to several partner universities, which helps us collaborate directly with professors and students to refine our content and grow our network organically.

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 Study Edge YC application?

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