Trainzen YC Application

Winter 2013Inactive

Trainzen went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2013 batch as a B2B 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 2013
Industry: B2BHuman Resources
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Adam HelybelyFounder
Zsolt MullerFounder
Viktor TakacsFounder

What Trainzen does

Terascore is developing an educational tool for teachers to create, administer, and manage tests entirely online. Scores and results are available immediately and teachers get instant analytics on question quality, difficulty, student performance. Any questions created can be stored in a question bank for reuse. Terascore aims to move all tests online and in doing so make learning more effective and teachers more efficient. The results are shortening the feedback loop for learning and are better for teachers and students. Terascore makes creating tests radically easier, as it has a WYSIWYG browser-based test authoring tool. Terascore allows teachers to easily integrate images, links, and videos into tests to make them more fun, engaging, and relevant. The inclusion of mathematic equations is also supported.

Trainzen's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Trainzen, Winter 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Trainzen

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Educational assessments made easy

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

We're building Terascore, an online tool for teachers to create, administer, and manage tests digitally. It eliminates paper exams, offers instant scoring and analytics on question quality and student performance, and stores questions in reusable banks. Our WYSIWYG editor supports images, videos, links, and math equations, making test creation faster and more engaging.

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

We live in Sunnyvale, CA, and would base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose to be in Sunnyvale because that's where the team lives and it's close to potential customers and education technology networks.

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 Trainzen YC application?

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