Application YC di Risely AI

Summer 2025Active

Risely AI ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Summer 2025 come azienda Education. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.

Batch YC: Summer 2025
Settore: Education
Dimensione team: 9
Stato: Active
Lanciata: 2025

Founder

Shahryar AbbasiFounder
Sadia SaifuddinFounder

Cosa fa Risely AI

Risely’s AI agents will form the new operating system for universities, improving retention, staff productivity, and efficiency. Our platform integrates directly into existing university systems (SIS, LMS, CRM), learns each institution’s unique workflows, and deploys specialized AI agents. This dramatically reduces the $735 billion universities spend annually on administrative labor, expands staff capacity without increasing headcount, and improves the student experience. This hasn't been done before because university workflows require nuanced, autonomous judgment, exactly what agentic AI was designed to solve. Our team uniquely combines deep expertise in higher education, enterprise-scale AI, and regulated enterprise sales. Sadia previously built Salesforce’s Education Cloud from scratch, creating the core Student Information System widely used across higher education. She deeply understands university operations and maintains trusted relationships with hundreds of higher-ed CIOs and Provosts. Danial was one of DoorDash’s earliest engineers, where he architected and scaled complex systems from zero to billions of transactions, including their search, recommendation, and Voice AI platforms. He knows how to build robust AI solutions that reliably perform at enterprise scale. Shahryar was a GM at Airwallex, where he built the entire Americas business from 0 to 1 and drove 11x revenue growth. He’s also a master closer, single-handedly securing over $17M in enterprise deals at NerdWallet. He’s a relentless startup executor with deep expertise launching and scaling go-to-market machines in highly regulated industries. We launched six weeks ago and are already at $8k MRR, growing 55% week-over-week -- one of the fastest ramps ever in higher ed. Universities urgently need solutions that expand labor capacity and efficiency, especially as they face unprecedented budget pressure and staffing shortages. With unmatched buyer access, deep technical expertise, and rapid early traction, we are perfectly positioned to own this enormous market.

Application YC di Risely AI, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

Risely AI, batch Summer 2025. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

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Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Risely AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI agents automating college campus admin work

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

We build AI agents that plug into university systems like Student Information Systems, Learning Management Systems, and CRMs. Our platform learns each school's workflows and automates administrative tasks autonomously, expanding staff capacity and improving student retention and experience.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the team is already located, offering access to tech talent, AI expertise, and investors focused on enterprise and education tech.

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Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di Risely AI?

No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di Risely AI (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Risely AI si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.

A quale batch YC apparteneva Risely AI?

Risely AI apparteneva al batch Summer 2025 di Y Combinator.

Chi ha fondato Risely AI?

Risely AI è stato fondato da Shahryar Abbasi, Sadia Saifuddin.

Cosa fa Risely AI?

AI agents that automate administrative work across college campuses.

Come leggo la ricostruzione completa della application?

Crea un account Round Funded gratuito. La versione completa di 26 risposte della application di Risely AI, e di ogni altro batch YC, è in YC Insights.