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₹1.2M INR", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [] }, { "id": 92808, "title": "Founding Product Manager", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/superkalam/jobs/W6Eoh7m-founding-product-manager", "location": "Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Product", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "₹1.2M - ₹1.6M INR", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "SQL", "Data Analytics" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "SuperKalam Raises $2 Mn To Enhance Its AI-Led Educational Platform", "url": "https://inc42.com/buzz/superkalam-raises-2-mn-to-enhance-its-ai-led-educational-platform/", "date": "May 22, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 81539, "title": "SuperKalam IAS: AI-powered personal super mentor for the UPSC exam", "tagline": "Check UPSC 2024 prelims answer keys, attempt & analyze paper", "body": "On impact of AI in education, **Bill Gates** said:\n\n> AI will eventually “be as good a tutor as any human ever could.” He cited, for example, the fact that most students can’t afford one-on-one private tutoring, leaving them without someone who can understand and adapt to their individual needs. Technology will ultimately fill that gap, AI-driven software will know your interests and your learning style so it can tailor content that will keep you engaged. It will measure your understanding. It will give immediate feedback, he said.\n\n## **AI x Education = SuperKalam**\n\nWe have built SuperKalam by thinking how education & learning can be delivered in the AI-first world.\n\nAt SuperKalam, we harness AI to democratize education, making it affordable and tailored to each student's needs. As an AI-driven personal mentor, SuperKalam helps students excel in the highly competitive UPSC Civil Services Examination.\n\nGuided by India’s top educators and the latest AI models, SuperKalam has already become the favorite personal mentor.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81539&key=user_uploads/990441/393a67be-37ed-4037-815d-7e9eb074867a)\n\n### [**Join Us for a LIVE Session with SuperKalam to Decode UPSC Prelims 2024**](https://superkalam.com/upsc-prelims-2024-answer-key)\n\nThe UPSC Prelims 2024 is scheduled for June 16th. As soon as the exam concludes at 4:30 PM, we will be hosting a LIVE session with SuperKalam AI and our expert team.\n\nThis session is designed to provide students with the Answer Key for UPSC Prelims 2024, detailed explanations, and real-time doubt resolution, apart from Standard Sources of the UPSC Prelims 2024 GS Questions.\n\nImagine getting instant feedback on the Prelims answers for UPSC 2024, understanding the nuances behind each question, and analyzing previous years' trends to better prepare for future attempts. This session is not just about getting answers; it's about learning and growing with each step.\n\n> On June 16th at 5 PM, [**join here**](https://superkalam.com/upsc-prelims-2024-answer-key) for a one of a kind Free LIVE session where SuperKalam will solve the UPSC Prelims 2024 paper in real-time.\n\nIf you are UPSC 2024 or 2025/26 aspirant, [**click here**](https://superkalam.com/upsc-prelims-2024-answer-key) to:\n\n* **Get the Answer Key for UPSC Prelims 2024**: Accurate and immediate.\n* **Receive Detailed Explanations**: Understand the reasoning behind each answer.\n* **Resolve Your Doubts in Real-Time**: Ask questions and get instant responses.\n* **Analyze Trends**: Compare with previous years to spot patterns and prepare smarter.\n\n> Whether you are looking for the GS Paper I Answers 2024 Prelims or want to solidify your preparation strategy for UPSC 2025-26, SuperKalam is here to guide you. Let's decode the UPSC Prelims 2024 together and set the stage for your success.\n\nAll the best.\n\nContact: ask@kalam.in", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LD9-superkalam-ias-ai-powered-personal-super-mentor-for-the-upsc-exam", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2024-06-15T20:07:53.746Z" }, { "id": 73599, "title": "SuperKalam: AI-Powered Learning, Human-Driven Success", "tagline": "Solving the challenges of affordability and accessibility to great teachers in India", "body": "In India, more than 5 million students set their sights on top careers in Engineering, Medicine, and Civil Services each year. However, they face significant hurdles in finding great mentors and teachers. [SuperKalam](https://superkalam.com/), a revolutionary AI-backed education initiative, comes to the rescue, empowering students with access to personalized mentorship in a discipline-inculcating learning ecosystem.\n\n> SuperKalam prepares study plans and sets daily targets based on a student's progress, keeping track of common mistakes, performance and time spent on specific concepts or subjects. This innovative approach is already working wonders, and the aim is to scale this to reach 5 million students in India, starting with the Indian Civil Services Examination (UPSC).\n\nRead on to discover the magical superpowers of SuperKalam!\n\n[Vimal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vimalsinghrathore/), alongside [Aseem](https://www.linkedin.com/in/-aseemgupta/), is the driving force behind building superkalam.com\n\nVimal, one of India’s top educators for more than 7 years, has witnessed the rise of edtech from the unique perspective of both founder and teacher during his tenure at unacademy and subsequently while building out his first startup in education, [coursavy (acquired by unacademy)](https://inc42.com/buzz/edtech-unicorn-unacademy-acquires-upsc-test-prep-platform-coursavy/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73599&key=user_uploads/990441/aa5fca7e-ed8d-4ee3-9485-5a3f8b486782)\n\nCurrent Edtech solutions primarily involve one-way content delivery, where thousands of students merely consume the content without engaging in effective discussions with the teacher. This leads to a loss of curiosity and, eventually, to poor learning outcomes. Furthermore, an excess of content leads to a multitude of choices, often resulting in confusion and chaotic, unplanned preparation.\n\n**SuperKalam steps in to solve these issues with simplicity and focus.** Vimal has championed this process through his education initiatives over the past decade. Now, leveraging the latest AI technology, SuperKalam is fully equipped to scale founder’s counter-intuitive insights and learnings to assist millions of students in India, starting with the UPSC exam.\n\n### **Solution**\n\nWondering about the superpowers of SuperKalam? Let's uncover the magic.\n\nIt assists in creating a **personalised timetable**, sending **daily targets**, and tracking progress throughout the learning journey.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73599&key=user_uploads/990441/42988042-7dd4-41a8-854a-36180d858340)\n\nIt helps resolve doubts, aids in mastering concepts, and can **evaluate** a UPSC student’s handwritten answer in less than 60 seconds — a process that typically takes 2-4 weeks in the current education market.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73599&key=user_uploads/990441/bb9f8270-0139-4d0a-9f06-e9f5a506b94c)\n\nIt conducts **mock tests**, identifies students' strengths and weaknesses, and provides **progress reports** that foster self-awareness, unlocking their full potential.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73599&key=user_uploads/990441/8b7f2fdc-f768-407c-8266-ae3bf70607ff)\n\nDo share your experience or feedback with us at [vimal@kalam.in](mailto:vimal@kalam.in)\n\nSocial Media Pages:\n\n[Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@superkalam_?sub_confirmation=1) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/SuperKalam_) \\\n\\\n**Thankyou!**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J95-superkalam-ai-powered-learning-human-driven-success", "votes": 155, "created_at": "2023-07-31T13:48:28.716Z" }, { "id": 69590, "title": "qoohoo - monetize your audience across all platforms", "tagline": "experience swift monetization tools to scale your revenue as a creator.", "body": "**tl;dr:** qoohoo helps creators to grow, manage and monetise their audience across all platforms. Creators on qoohoo earn swiftly from their micro-content, courses & subscriptions directly on Whatsapp and Telegram unlocking massive growth potential. **Check out our** [**product**](https://qoohoo.in/)**.**\n\nHello everyone, we are [Aseem](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/594687) & [Vimal](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/990441), the team behind [qoohoo](https://qoohoo.in/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69590&key=user_uploads/990441/0058114c-2b3e-4ddd-aeee-90f327d47b20)\n\n### **Problem**\n\nCommunities on Telegram and WhatsApp have been growing at a rapid pace, especially in the last few years. Creators tend to bring their audience from social media to messaging apps, but they don't have a way to monetize or manage them effectively. \n\nThey are currently managing their backend operations in a chaotic, error-prone, and time-consuming way, manually handling payments and adding/removing users separately.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69590&key=user_uploads/990441/010078e6-3abc-4907-9a23-f8702f004f53)\n\nBesides monetisation, creators need help with _audience growth, retention_, and _reactivation_. **They are missing critical audience insights, behaviour and nudges to grow their business effectively to their full potential.**\n\nThis problem was first faced by Vimal while running his edtech startup - coursavy, where communities of students & LIVE courses were the core. He used to create a telegram channel for each course and manually managed the operations. His brother is also a [_YouTuber in music learning_](https://www.youtube.com/@MusicwaleLessons/featured) facing similar issues while running classes on Whatsapp.\n\nThis experience gave us a ring-side view of the problem and the scale.\n\n### **Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69590&key=user_uploads/990441/92fd5d84-0568-4e39-a74a-0af7b6787233)\n\nCreators on qoohoo can quickly launch their micro-content, courses & subscriptions directly on Whatsapp and Telegram unlocking massive growth potential.\n\nIf we take simplicity & speed into account, _what whatsapp is for personal communication, qoohoo is for creators. It’s that simple!_\n\nIn February alone, our creators are earning close to **$500K** in the field of Art, Music, Education and Finance.\n\n_One of our_ creators’ earnings has surged from **$10K** to **$125K** per month in just 10 months of using our product. She leverages YouTube for distribution and qoohoo for monetization.\n\n### **Ask & Deal**\n\nToday we are launching our global version, now anyone across any nation can use qoohoo easily. This is a beta release, we will keep on adding all the new tools going forward.\n\n**Check out our product** at \n\n* It will be super nice if you could use our product & share your experience, we are available at [founders@qoohoo.in](mailto:founders@qoohoo.in)\n* If you have creators or startups in your circle who are running their communities & courses, do connect us with them. (We have special offers for YC companies & referrals :)\n\nLet's keep building and moving forward! Thanks for your support. 🙏", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I6Q-qoohoo-monetize-your-audience-across-all-platforms", "votes": 366, "created_at": "2023-02-23T14:45:45.871Z" } ] }, { "id": 28008, "name": "Univerbal", "slug": "univerbal", "former_names": [ "Quazel", "Univerbal (formerly Quazel)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8278fad06fd1b1d1ed9d47f63aa549adf1a8fece.png", "website": "https://univerbal.app", "all_locations": "Zürich, ZH, Switzerland", "long_description": "Univerbal is an AI-powered language learning app that helps people boost their confidence simply by talking. In unscripted and dynamic conversations, users can talk about anything they’d like using the microphone, with the AI responding as it adapts to their level and skills. Each user gets a personal AI Language Tutor that creates a custom learning plan based on the language goals they’d like to work towards and their own interests, offers instant corrections after every message and helps users in their own language.\r\nBased in the country with 4 official languages, Switzerland, in 2024 we were selected as one of WIRED’s Hottest 100 Startups in Europe.", "one_liner": "Language learning with a conversational AI Tutor", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Education", "subindustry": "Education", "launched_at": 1668632369, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Education" ], "regions": [ "Switzerland", "Europe", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": [ { "question": "Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.", "answer": "Conversational language practice by talking to AI" }, { "question": "What is your company going to make? 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Most importantly, never judges you!\n\nYour personal AI Tutor creates a language study plan combining both the language skills you’d like to work towards, based on CEFR language education standards and the conversation topics you’re interested in. **_No two study plans are the same because no two language learning journeys are the same._**\n\n### **Try it for free:**\n\n🌐 [Web app](http://chat.univerbal.app/) | 🍎 [Get the iOS app](http://univerbal.app/) | 🤖 [Get the Android app](http://univerbal.app/)\n\nWatch the demo [here](https://youtu.be/gZs_F9J76xg) and try the app for free.\n\n### \n\n## **🤔 The problem**\n\nPeople learn a language to be able to speak it, but they end up memorizing vocabulary and doing boring grammar exercises and in the process, forget or they get too shy to actually practice speaking\n\nPracticing with native speakers can feel like a burden, language tutors can soon get expensive and using some language apps can only get you so far.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85531&key=user_uploads/566264/8a04773c-911c-4f8d-bbdd-392e51ee0f0b)\n\n## **💡 The solution**\n\nWe’re based in Switzerland: the country with 4 official languages🇨🇭 so it was only natural to try to solve this problem by building an AI-powered language learning app to help everyone increase their confidence to speak a new language.\n\nUniverbal was born out of our own frustration as language learners (initially Philipp’s as he was learning Greek to connect to his Cypriot family heritage). It was obvious that the only way to get better was to speak, but it became both difficult to find the time for tutor sessions and very expensive 💸\n\nUniverbal gives everyone access to a conversation partner and language tutor that’s customized to their own needs.\n\n## **👉 How does it work?**\n\nWith the Univerbal app, each user gets a personal AI Language Tutor that creates a study plan based on the language goals they wants to work towards **and** the topics they’re interested in talking about.\n\nDeveloped in collaboration with the Language Department at the University of Zürich, this ensures that everyone gets the language training based on CEFR language education standards, that’s also personalized to their own needs, skills and interests!\n\nNo two study plans are the same.\n\nUsers can practice with real-life conversations like ordering coffee or going for a job interview, get help from their AI Language Tutor in their own language and practice with short vocabulary exercises.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85531&key=user_uploads/566264/3a215c8e-39e0-4e0d-85fa-13e7e11b1d9e)\n\n## **👋 Ask**\n\n* **We need your input:** What would you like to see in terms of vocabulary features? What’s helped you in the past as a language learner? Speaking is essential, but we don’t want to neglect vocabulary building.\n* Offer: 30% off on the 3M and 12M plan with code STUDYPLAN at this link [Univerbal](https://chat.univerbal.app/)\n* Try it and leave us feedback: 🌐 [Web app](http://chat.univerbal.app/) | 🍎 [Get the iOS app](http://univerbal.app/) | 🤖 [Get the Android app](http://univerbal.app/)\n* Join us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/EpbYsNKNy9) or follow us on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/univerbalapp/)\n* Spread the word to other language lovers", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MFX-univerbal-ai-language-learning-app", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2024-11-13T14:48:22.396Z" }, { "id": 77959, "title": "Univerbal: The AI language tutor in your pocket", "tagline": "A brand new name, look and feel", "body": "# **Quazel is now Univerbal.**\n\n### A brand new name, look, and features for your AI-Language Tutor.\n\n\\\nWhen we launched [Quazel](https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HuS-quazel-talk-your-way-to-fluency) we focused on building the best AI Language Tutor app out there.\n\nLots of people tried it and loved it, except _everyone struggled to spell it… or find it._\n\nQuazel makes sense in German, as a play on _quasseln_ (to chat), but that’s about it. And, as a language learning app, **we wanted to be uni…versal**, after all - so we needed a name to reflect that.\n\n**Introducing - Univerbal!** A brand new name, look, and feel for the AI Tutor in your pocket. With lots of new features, too.\n\n### **Try it for free:**\n\n🌐 [Web app (no account needed)](http://chat.univerbal.app/) | 🍎 [Get the iOS app](https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/univerbal/id6443595452) | 🤖 [Get the Android app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chatexpo&hl=en&gl=US)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77959&key=user_uploads/566264/e21383c2-8971-43f2-b847-eeb841231f54)\n\nThe AI Tutor that helps anyone learn a language by talking freely, with no judgment, through conversations personalized to your interests.\n\n\\\n🎙️ Talk about anything you’d like and practice with real-life scenarios \\\n✍️ Get instant feedback from your AI Tutor\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77959&key=user_uploads/566264/e75e59bf-d29f-4317-a864-78a9adcaad13)\n\n**NEW:**\\\n✔️ Work towards mastering language skills\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77959&key=user_uploads/566264/2f5a8178-9d64-40db-8a18-b6147f3e4ae7)\n\n💫 Generate an infinite amount of possible conversations based on your interests and skill progress\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77959&key=user_uploads/566264/df14f1df-680c-44d2-893f-a3d2960bdb31)\n\n🧑‍🏫 Switch to tutor mode any time and ask questions in your known language\\\n👩 Get a photorealistic image of your AI conversation partner\\\n🤝 Guided beginner mode\\\n\\\nOf course, Quazel OGs get a badge!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77959&key=user_uploads/566264/1e28b9e3-369f-4a77-9f81-756fceb91778)\n\n## **👋 Ask:**\n\n* **We need your input:** How much gamification do you think we should add? 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Synaptiq plans to become the AI infrastructure for the $110B medical education industry, leading to better physicians, a more efficient healthcare system, and improved patient care.\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nMedical training hasn’t significantly advanced in 250 years – trainees are still taught with archaic, static tools like textbooks. As a result, doctors forget over 50% of all new knowledge within 8 months, which leads to immeasurable patient harm and costs billions of dollars in burnout-related physician turnover.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nSynaptiq trains doctors with AI, helping them learn faster and retain 7x more information than any alternative.\n\nIt began as a tool Ryan created for his own medical studies at UCSF, propelling him into the 100th percentile on the Step 1 licensing exam and leading him to be accepted into Stanford’s neurosurgery program, the most selective residency in the country.\n\nSeeing the impact this would have if applied to all of healthcare, he dropped out of residency to go full-time on Synaptiq. He teamed up with his best friends of over 20 years, Jake and Kevin, to design and build the platform.\n\nSince launching, Synaptiq has rapidly spread to over 220 medical schools and hospitals across 85 countries and is growing at 110% month/month – underscoring the significant unmet need.\n\n### **How It Works**\n\nSynaptiq uses AI and neuroscience-based algorithms to personalize the learning experience of every user. By predicting when each user will forget each topic, the material is always reinforced at the optimal time, enabling doctors to retain their knowledge indefinitely. AI also enables an unprecedented level of premium content production, eliminating the moat that traditional publishers have long held.\n\nSynaptiq plans to become the AI infrastructure for the $110B medical education industry, leading to better physicians, a more efficient healthcare system, and improved patient care.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74012&key=user_uploads/1311708/f23dd696-2575-4e0d-bab7-ded4c757081c)\n\n### **How You Can Help**\n\nWe are on a mission to transform medical training for the better. Here’s what you can do to help 🙏\n\n* Share this post with anyone in healthcare, including doctors, med school/hospital administrators, or anyone involved in MedEd\n* Follow us on X (Twitter) [@SynaptiqHQ](https://twitter.com/SynaptiqHQ) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/synaptiq-learning/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JFk-synaptiq-ai-powered-training-for-doctors", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2023-08-10T21:12:03.848Z" } ] }, { "id": 28969, "name": "Studdy", "slug": "studdy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c0821a1683c61a3940f8574e68efe0f27f930177.png", "website": "https://www.studdyai.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "At Studdy, our mission is to unlock the full potential of the next generation by providing a personalized AI tutor for every student.\r\n\r\nStuddy is a multilingual tutor that uses AI, as well as advanced speech, text, and image recognition technology to supercharge students' ability to learn new subjects.\r\n\r\nWe believe that making self-learning as easy as possible for as many students as possible (no matter their cultural, social, or educational background) is the key to unlocking the full potential of students around the world.\r\n\r\nWe're a passionate team of AI experts, educators, and builders - if you also have a passion for transforming education we'd love to hear from you.\r\n\r\nShoot us a message at team@studdy.ai!", "one_liner": "An AI tutor that helps you study", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Education", "subindustry": "Education", "launched_at": 1688327880, "tags": [ "AI-Enhanced Learning", "Education", "Consumer", "Edtech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Education" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/studdy", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/studdy.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/studdyai", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/studdyai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c0821a1683c61a3940f8574e68efe0f27f930177.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1332645, "full_name": "Michael Lam", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CEO at Studdy", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/mikelam231", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/mike_lamma", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/61cd72de6866d065e238857e95103448fbf7eb21.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1383463, "full_name": "Alex Lanzoni", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Self-taught software engineer w/ 13 YoE\nLike building and video games", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/alex-lanzoni", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/chad_syntax", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/096acf61a418174fbb54f420fe89ab79e44ad845.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 73856, "title": "Studdy: an AI tutor for every student", "tagline": "Snap, ask, and learn anything with Studdy Buddy", "body": "### TL;DR\n\nHave you ever been studying something and **wished you could instantly ask a question** about it to an expert? Now you can, with Studdy.\n\n[Studdy](https://studdy.ai/) is an AI tutor for students. Anytime you need help with schoolwork (or any material you’re reading), **just snap a picture to get instant help from Studdy Buddy**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73856&key=user_uploads/1332645/ee2a0350-1b1c-4d20-aa05-b79c3254dfb0)\n\n### The problem\n\nStudents are not getting the help they need to succeed in school. Every year, [**65%+ of all U.S. eighth graders**](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/24/us/math-reading-scores-pandemic.html) score **“below proficient,” in reading comprehension and math.**\n\nThe problem is that **class sizes are too large** for teachers to provide enough 1:1 help to every kid. Districts can’t afford to hire more teachers, and parents are unable to help their kids at home because they don’t know the material either.\n\nWhen a student falls behind for just a couple of weeks, it can lead to a spiral of underachievement that ultimately leads to many kids giving up. Studdy is here to stop the spiral.\n\n### How Studdy Helps\n\nWhen students need extra help understanding material from class, **Studdy is available 24/7 to answer any questions and patiently explain any concepts**. Studdy never gets angry, impatient, or tired - and it loves answering follow up questions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73856&key=user_uploads/1332645/bcb4d350-5c3e-474d-8a0e-ef6cf0ab1489)\n\nThings Studdy can do:\n\n* **Break problems down** into simple steps\n* Answer **unlimited follow up questions**\n* **Summarize** pages for you\n* **Test** your reading comprehension\n* Quiz you to make sure you **understand the “why”** of what you’re doing and aren’t just regurgitating homework steps\n* Frame problems and **draw relationships** for you\n* Speak to you at your grade level, **in your own language**\n* Plus more!\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73856&key=user_uploads/1332645/bbb5e47e-6f23-4512-8723-d0fedc547559)\n\n\n### Studdy vs ChatGPT\n\nStuddy is purpose built for students:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73856&key=user_uploads/1332645/ef16271e-a1eb-4ed5-9b53-49a9c4756cca)\n\n### Our Story\n\nAlex and I built Studdy for our former selves (we were not good students back in the day). Too much lecturing would put us to sleep, and that caused issues when it came time to do homework.\n\nWe wished we had a tutor available 24/7 who could answer all of our questions at home - when we would try to catch up on the material we’d missed during class.\n\nAlex dropped out of college at 19 and he’s been plotting how to reform education ever since. I spent the last four years working in ed-tech and AI at Photomath, and then [@Speak](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/1443) (W17), where I helped build an AI language tutor on GPT3 & 4. Alex and I previously worked together [@Starcity](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/1431) (S16) before creating Studdy.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73856&key=user_uploads/1332645/c0dabeee-b4bf-4ddd-86c1-09d47515fe9b)\n\n### Our Ask\n\n* **Try** **our** [iOS App](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/studdy-ai-pocket-tutor/id6450114499)!\n* **Share this post!** Send it to students, parents, teachers, friends.\n* If you know **any professors** who might want to **partner up on** **AI-Education Research**, we’d love to chat.\n* Shoot us a note at [**team@studdy.ai**](mailto:team@studdy.ai) if you’d like to help us\n* Leave us a kind review on the app store : )", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JDE-studdy-an-ai-tutor-for-every-student", "votes": 61, "created_at": "2023-08-07T14:12:11.395Z" } ] }, { "id": 28982, "name": "Flint", "slug": "flint-2", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d1d23e86e87d65a7410c416cf73e10dd2adf94c8.png", "website": "http://flintk12.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Flint is an AI-powered personalized learning platform for K-12 schools, helping teachers deliver individualized instruction at scale. Trusted by 500,000+ educators and students, Flint has powered learning activities that increase student engagement, academic performance, and collaboration.\r\n\r\nThrough AI-driven tutoring, real-time feedback, and interactive learning experiences, Flint enables every student to receive personalized support without adding to teacher workload.\r\n\r\nWith AI-native student analytics, educators gain full visibility into student progress, strengths, and areas for improvement, while saving time on grading, lesson planning, and differentiation. 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Flint aims to change that by creating AI tools built from the ground up with one goal in mind: helping teachers ([demo video](https://vimeo.com/834900487)).\n\nWith Flint, K-12 teachers can…\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72380&key=user_uploads/431287/58a14868-a9b2-4c96-a4e0-f8633d266248)\n\ncreate content in seconds,\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72380&key=user_uploads/431287/c40f69f3-0ad3-463e-aeba-d4ede6a76534)\n\ndifferentiate to student needs,\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72380&key=user_uploads/431287/18a65df6-f8e3-48b8-aefb-32cba0b2702f)\n\nand align to curriculum standards.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72380&key=user_uploads/431287/470b474f-2c30-4907-8cf0-bee06981ddba)\n\nAll supercharged with AI.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72380&key=user_uploads/431287/0ceaa0ca-9730-4bc9-ab53-09f764a123d0)\n\nWe’re Jinseo (left) and Sohan (right). We previously built a startup in the video chat space during the pandemic, and are now excited to be working with K-12 teachers!\n\n**Our ask — share Flint with a teacher that you know!** Send them our website () or intro us via email ([sohan@flintk12.com](mailto:sohan@flintk12.com)). _Our only goal is to create a product that teachers love!_\n\nAnd, if you’re feeling generous, follow our journey on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/flintk12_) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/flintk12/) ❤️", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IpQ-flint-copilot-for-k-12-teachers", "votes": 84, "created_at": "2023-06-20T06:34:15.874Z" } ] }, { "id": 29422, "name": "Deep24", "slug": "deep24", "former_names": [ "Versify", "Amber AI", "Ultra" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0586276952946e7eb368770c1670669a2ac319d6.png", "website": "https://deep24.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Deep24 is a coach that syncs with all your data source, understanding you and then coming up with plans to improve your life. 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We’ve already matched some very hungry and capable top 1% high school students to VC firms and YC startups as interns; we’d love to partner with more companies who are interested in building a talent pipeline here or otherwise interested in working with high schoolers. Contact us at [oliver@tryultra.org](mailto:oliver@tryultra.org) \\\n\\\n \\\n\\\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nAmbitious students are underserved. A hungry high schooler is capable of so much more than APs and creating fake non-profits to get into a college.\\\n\\\nBut the guidance is often nothing or directly negative. Schools and counseling departments are already overwhelmed, so they have to focus their advice on the low-performing students. What is possible for a high schooler has also changed so much that a lot of previously sound advice has aged out. \\\n\\\nCollege remains the primary goal for ambitious high schoolers. And the best way to get in is to be shockingly impressive, which also helps later in life, too. But access to guidance on how to make yourself stand out to colleges is expensive (private college consultants) or not well packaged.\\\n\\\n[**👷**](https://emojipedia.org/construction-worker) **Our Solution**\\\nWe’ve created an AI advisor that helps students become extraordinary.\n\n1. Firstly, we simulate the process that elite colleges use to evaluate profiles to give students an idea of what their odds are (Naviance but better).\n2. Secondly, we give recommendations that students can iterate on. This pulls from a database of 3000+ opportunities, including opportunities exclusive to our platform, like high school-specific internships with venture-backed startups.\n3. Finally, we have a 24/7 AI coach that calls users to check in with them and help them plan and reflect.\n\nAI will make the top performers produce a larger and larger proportion of human work. We will help create this next generation of top performers from the most ambitious students of today.\\\n\\\n**🙏 Our Ask**\\\n\\\nWe’d love to hear from you if you fall into these categories:\n\n* Are you interested in working with or reaching the most ambitious high schoolers? We’ve got a range of partnership-led products coming up, working with startups and enterprises to help them recruit talent, get talent to use their products, and more. This could be as simple as posting opportunities to our platform and being able to recruit the best of the best at their scrappiest or creating job simulations.\n* You’re in education and can help us reach school districts and counselors. We want to give our product for free to schools!\n* If you’re a parent and can help us reach other parents with middle school to high school aged kids.\n* And of course, if you found this as a high schooler: [useultra.ai](http://useultra.ai) is for you.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N8i-ultra-advisor-for-ambitious-students", "votes": 47, "created_at": "2025-03-25T22:57:49.442Z" } ] }, { "id": 29432, "name": "Shepherd", "slug": "shepherd-2", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8408a86c942db7875be46678809efb7e8c81bb1d.png", "website": "https://www.shepherd.study", "all_locations": "Remote", "long_description": "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. ", "one_liner": "Every student's personalized learning assistant", "team_size": 5, "industry": "Education", "subindustry": "Education", "launched_at": 1705612785, "tags": [ "AI-Enhanced Learning", "Education", "Generative AI", "Marketplace", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Education" ], "regions": [ "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": [ { "question": "Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.\n", "answer": "Learning assistant that combines AI & human tutors" }, { "question": "What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.\n", "answer": "An institution-endorsed platform that meets students’ needs for collaborative and AI-enhanced learning without compromising academic integrity." } ], "question_answers": [ { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "The problem is two-fold. **From a student’s perspective:** The studying process is fragmented, leading to sub-optimal and expensive learning experiences. Students have to use multiple learning apps - note-taking, flashcards, quizzes, AI help, tutoring, and reminder apps - to have a complete learning experience. From speaking to numerous students (and being former students ourselves), there is a significant opportunity to use AI to make studying a truly seamless end-to-end experience that understands the student deeply. **From an educational institution’s perspective:** The AI genie is out of the bottle, and existing institutions realize this and are deeply concerned about how to embrace AI and deliver the value it promises to their students in a safe and impactful manner without compromising the goal of education delivery. **This is what Shepherd provides.** Imagine a world with **19M college students (to start with)** getting an institution-endorsed AI-enabled learning assistant in their pocket. Students get education-specific workflows, not just chatbots, access to tutors, and a learning community. Institutions get analytics, control on prompting, and the ability to monitor academic dishonesty. This is the future of education." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? 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With 10 exams live and 5,000+ students across Europe, Asia, and South America already on board, we’re expanding fast. Reach out to build with us: [founders@educato.com.](mailto:founders@educato.ai)\n\nHi everyone, we’re Codrut, Felix, and Pierre-Louis and we’re building Educato.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82200&key=user_uploads/1758638/2deb0ecc-e65a-4f7a-bd90-678008c4f379)\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\n**Most exams don’t have any high-quality online prep material.**\n\nExams and certifications aren’t going anywhere, especially in an AI world where anyone can fake any homework assignment. Online exam prep has existed for decades, yet the big players all target the same top 10 exams in the US.\n\nThe reality is that many exams around the world—including some taken by hundreds of thousands of students each year—still lack high-quality online prep materials. As a result, students often turn to expensive private tutoring or mediocre resources, leading to poor learning outcomes.\n\n### **🔧 Our Solution**\n\nThe Educato platform allows us to quickly build high-quality adaptive learning experiences, **for any exam and geography**. We already offer prep for a diverse set of 10 exams across Europe, Asia, and South America, and are adding more every week.\n\n**Educato platform features**:\n\n* **High-quality content using AI**: Our models generate realistic exam questions from textbooks or past exams, with human-in-the-loop validation, linked to the original content\n* **Unique student experience**: Cutting edge features including personalized learning paths, AI essay grading with individualized feedback, and live simulation tests with peers\n* **Detailed analytics**: Leverage interactive tools and adaptive assessments to enhance student engagement, improve learning outcomes, and identify areas for improvements\n\nSee the platform in action here:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82200&key=user_uploads/1758638/71e8fdac-7838-4074-b243-4f98267c56da)\n\n### **💙** **Our Progress**\n\nEducato already supports 5000+ students, preparing them for exams such as:\n\n* 🇷🇴 Romanian Medical Residency\n* 🇮🇳 Indian Civil Service Exam\n* 🇵🇪 Peruvian San Marcos University Exam\n* 🇦🇷 Argentinian Medical Unico\n* \\+ 6 more\n\nWe’re currently adding 10 more exams and are looking for partners to expand our offering further. Calling all entrepreneurial educators to help us transform education and improve student outcomes - please reach us at [founders@educato.com](mailto:founders@educato.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LNo-educato-duolingo-for-every-exam", "votes": 95, "created_at": "2024-08-18T04:47:03.000Z" } ] }, { "id": 30053, "name": "General Learning", "slug": "general-learning", "former_names": [ "RevisionDojo", "StudyDojo", "RevisionDojo" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0c81f81e9e5f5c52a1f75270cb3b6af99f88496e.png", "website": "https://generallearning.com", "all_locations": "Hong Kong, Hong Kong", "long_description": "General Learning builds AI-powered learning platforms for the world's major curricula.\r\n\r\nRevisionDojo, the AI study platform for the IB; OnePrep, the premier AI platform for SAT, ACT, and AP; and MathsGenie, the leading AI platform for GCSE and A-level.\r\n\r\nEach brand houses pre-loaded question sets, study notes, mini-lessons guided by an AI tutor that adapts to each student individually.", "one_liner": "AI tutors for students.", "team_size": 35, "industry": "Education", "subindustry": "Education", "launched_at": 1731559627, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Education" ], "regions": [ "Hong Kong", "East Asia" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/general-learning", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/general-learning.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Hong Kong", "country": "HK", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/revision-dojo/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0c81f81e9e5f5c52a1f75270cb3b6af99f88496e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1624256, "full_name": "Bowen Liu", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CEO @ General Learning | Increasing humanity’s rate of learning", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bowen-liu/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/89b5f79f2e97bb3f332b4ddc74bac50a02a79da6.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1431556, "full_name": "Janet Liu", "title": "Founder/CMO", "founder_bio": "COO @ General Learning // breathing new life into K-12 ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/janetwkliu", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d788828ca4983a177961c0d555aeae383128dd14.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1655557, "full_name": "Michael Tong", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "19 | Co-Founder & CTO @ RevisionDojo. 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We have 2,000+ paying customers generating mid-six figure ARR, growing 13% weekly the past two weeks and maintained a 10% weekly growth rate since joining YC. With an NPS of 75+ customers, many B2C customers have started to drive our B2B adoption in schools.\n\nWe’re becoming the single browser tab students never close. Let’s chat: [founders@studydojo.com](mailto:founders@studydojo.com)\n\n### **Problem**\n\n1 out of 4 people worldwide are students, each learning differently. Yet education insists on one-size-fits-all: same classrooms, same content, same methods, unchanged for decades.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85564&key=user_uploads/1624256/8b40d592-727b-4fd1-af8a-b9064f05b56a)\n\n### **Solution**\n\nInstead of human tutors and ChatGPT, our students get curriculum-specific practice questions, flashcards, and mini-lessons with step-by-step AI feedback personalized to their needs.\n\n**Learn with mini-lessons:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85564&key=user_uploads/1624256/f25cd63a-d2ad-4b74-b8a1-612cd7325723)\n\n**Go deeper with any question:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85564&key=user_uploads/1624256/5b62abea-9cf8-408c-a5f1-15cdef712484)\n\n**Grade your answers:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85564&key=user_uploads/1624256/f0236667-8aa7-4a32-aa17-90e941093fbc)\n\n### **Our insight**\n\nJeff Bezos said innovation is not disruptive, customer adoption is.\n\nWe place this core and center to everything we do: branding, UI/UX and curriculum-tailored AI. 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It can be trained and controlled by the teacher and can grade assignments from any curriculum, year level, subject, or format. \r\n\r\nLearning like a teacher, Edexia visually breaks down its understanding of the rubric, and updates this as a teacher corrects it.\r\n\r\nOur vision is to transform education by facilitating AI’s safe and effective integration across all institutions and applications. 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It learns the style of each individual teacher, so it can grade just like they do, saving up to 100% of grading time.\n\nEdexia can grade assignments from any curriculum, year level, subject, or format. Learning like a teacher, it visually breaks down its understanding of the rubric, and then updates this, as a teacher corrects its grading on the fly.\n\n[Watch the demo video here!](https://youtu.be/43dOCAkHDO8)\n\n# **👥** Founding Story\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86220&key=user_uploads/1485291/dd7010a0-0ce6-4ea9-9f96-274ded8cbce0)\n\nWe’re Daniel and Nathan. We met at university after both graduating among the state's top students (top 30 and 200). Our shared goal of making a meaningful impact through our careers, combined with our passion for education and technology, led us to launch our first EdTech company. After growing it to $200K ARR in just over a year, we pivoted to Edexia to pursue an opportunity with even greater potential for positive impact.\n\n# **🌍** Our Vision\n\nWe want to transform education by facilitating the safe and effective integration of AI across all institutions and applications. Not using AI to replace teachers but rather to empower them—providing them with all the time and resources they need to develop their students.\n\n# 🚀 Progress\n\nSince launching on August 1st, we have already collaborated with 11 of Australia's best schools in Q4 2024 and are arranging an additional 30 partnerships for Q1 2025. We aim to positively impact every institution in every country in the near future.\n\n# 🙏 Our Ask\n\n1. **Work in education?** We'd love to talk and see if your institution could benefit from this technology. [Book a call here.](https://tidycal.com/danielbcgibbon/edexia-online-demo-and-discussion)\n2. **Know any educators?** Please forward them our demo video and cc [daniel@edexia.com.au](mailto:daniel@edexia.com.au)\n3. **Passionate about EdTech?** Let's connect! Just email me at [daniel@edexia.com.au](mailto:daniel@edexia.com.au).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MQe-edexia-ai-teaching-assistant-for-grading-papers", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2024-12-11T19:08:12.734Z" } ] }, { "id": 30185, "name": "Excellence Learning", "slug": "excellence-learning", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1e153fb91aba9399d441f6364476829f360fb0a5.png", "website": "https://excellence-ai.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Excellence an after-school maths and science program. We replace/supplement private tutoring and long-term study programs such as Kumon (over 30B TAM). 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He is also technical by background.\r\n\r\nMRR is $20k, growing +10% week-over-week the last 8 weeks\r\n\r\nAlice's core market opportunity is +$10b, with the global education market being almost $10trillion. As AI starts to disrupt education, Alice will use in-built network effects and virality in its product to create a global winner. \r\n\r\nGo Alice. Thank you!", "one_liner": "AI-driven exam prep", "team_size": 5, "industry": "Education", "subindustry": "Education", "launched_at": 1736959747, "tags": [ "AI-Enhanced Learning", "Education", "Generative AI", "SaaS", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Education" ], "regions": [ "Denmark", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? 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What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "Education is one of the largest and most influential industries in the world, with +20% of the global population being students.Yet, today’s education system still follows the assembly-line approach from the industrial revolution—leaving students stuck with standardized, one-size-fits-all learning methods that create three major pains:1. Compromised learning2. Emotional stress3. Wasted timeThese intensify towards the exam, leaving a glaring problem to be solved. Until now, solutions like private tutors have been expensive, inaccessible to most, and inconsistent in quality. But with advancements in AI, this is finally changing…" }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? 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He was the fastest in Europe to make Engagement Manager. He also worked in LEGO as Head of Global Business Development. \n\nKim has taught university students for 11+ years. \n\nMSc in Computer Science from Imperial College London & MSc in Finance from LSE.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimrants/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b105ea0b0986c4fb4304873ce412b1f267ff0afb.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Pitch Deck: Alice.Tech Raises $4.8 Million for AI Edtech Platform - Business Insider", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/pitch-deck-alice-tech-funding-ai-edtech-2025-5", "date": "May 07, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 87253, "title": "Alice 👩‍🎓 AI-Powered Exam Prep", "tagline": "Alice turns generic course materials into personalized learning and exam prep using AI", "body": "Hey everyone [👋](https://emojipedia.org/waving-hand)\n\nWe’re [Kim](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimrants/) and [Patrick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-gadd/ ) – co-founders of [Alice](https://www.alice.tech/). \n\n# **TL;DR**\n\n**Alice turns generic course materials into personalized learning and exam prep using AI**. Over 2,000 students have already used Alice to improve their grades. \n\n**_Ask_:** Can you introduce us to student organizations, educators, high-schools, or universities that could benefit from rolling out responsible and advanced AI? Contact us at [kim@alice.tech](mailto:kim@alice.tech)  \n\n[**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OcZOUE44nM**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OcZOUE44nM)\n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\nEducation is one of the largest and most influential industries in the world, with +20% of the global population being students.\n\nYet, today’s education system still follows the assembly-line approach from the industrial revolution—leaving students stuck with standardized, one-size-fits-all learning methods that create three major pains:\n\n1. Compromised learning\n2. Emotional stress\n3. Wasted time\n\nThese intensify towards the exam, leaving a glaring problem to be solved. \n\n![Education: One size no longer has to fit all - Technology and Operations Management](https://d3.harvard.edu/platform-rctom/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/11/animals.jpg)\n\nUntil now, solutions like private tutors have been expensive, inaccessible to most, and inconsistent in quality. But with advancements in AI, this is finally changing…\n\n# [👷](https://emojipedia.org/construction-worker) Our Solution\n\nAt Alice, we’re a team of former teachers and AI experts using the latest technology to make personalized learning more accessible. \n\nAlice turns generic course materials into personalized learning and exam prep using AI. Students simply upload what they want to study and instantly get access to:\n\n* **Better understanding** 📚: Key topic overviews with support from an AI chat that knows their context. \n* **Effective practicing** 📝: Tailored exercises (level, format, curriculum, etc.), including flashcards, multiple-choice questions, and full exam simulations and grading. \n* **Targeted improvement** 🎯: Identification of weaknesses for more targeted and complete learning.\n\nPlus, Alice makes learning fun by allowing students to study with or against their friends.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdDw2pjseLEjX6Ww72ZtmrbUuDeBLrs_fv3teZlN1MUP_mkmlXcOOCe7ASwp23xZnw1VX4RX0g_XMuNjVUnpY0cMp3f60VijccTva3dKPX4kmX_Vsvl54w3HZ3IYXrcOE5qSNY5wg?key=Jl8x5eY4hkisaV-3Hb514LsF)\n\n# 🙏 Our Ask\n\nIf you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d love your help:\n\n* Do you know any college students that might be up for trying an innovative AI study platform? Or are you one yourself? You can sign up here: [www.alice.tech](http://www.alice.tech) and use the promo code 40PERCENT for an exclusive YC launch offer providing free trial and 40% off [🚀](https://emojipedia.org/rocket)\n* Can you introduce us to any student organizations that might look for AI solutions to their members?\n* Can you introduce us to educators, high-schools or universities that might be looking for responsible and advanced AI solutions to help their students and teachers?\n\n👉 Contact us at [Kim@alice.tech](mailto:Kim@alice.tech)\n\nYour help can make a huge difference. **Thank you!**\n\n# [👬](https://emojipedia.org/men-holding-hands) The Team\n\nKim and Patrick have known each other for almost 10 years and co-founded Alice in 2024. \n\nKim (CEO) has worked as an Associate Partner at McKinsey, where he specialized in AI, and has taught university students for 10+ years. 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School districts layer dozens of tools on top of their SIS to fill in the gaps.\r\n\r\nScout is an AI-powered student information system that automates school- and district-wide busywork, from day-to-day operations like attendance tracking to annual compliance reports. 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Schools run all of their software on top of it, but most teachers and administrators avoid using their SIS as much as possible. Traditionally, the SIS has been a database with a UI, but we believe that the SIS of the future will be providing “compliance-as-a-service”, handling every administrative task schools have to deal with, so educators at every level can focus on optimizing instruction.\n\n[Demo](https://www.loom.com/share/584f0389606f4b88841efcce59df740c?sid=9e5b78bd-fc67-4341-a299-7d86bb699c16)\n\n**Automated Compliance 💫**\n\nBy law, schools have to collect and report mountains of data. It takes large teams of people a ton of time to ingest, validate, audit, and report data to the government. They develop their own manual pipelines to try to improve these processes, but there’s no unified pipeline, and it often involves several rounds of manual auditing to make sure the data is accurate.\n\nEven with all of these redundant checks, these are manual processes, and schools make mistakes. When the annual audit comes around, schools lose funding for every mistake - and it can come out to hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.\n\nScout automates the entire school compliance pipeline, from data ingestion to internal audits to government reporting. Our AI agents use drip campaigns to remind parents and students to submit documents, we continuously monitor all data for compliance throughout the school year, and Scout’s end-to-end reporting features compress reporting from a month-long process to something that can be done in a few hours.\n\n**AI-powered outreach**\n\nOne of the biggest time-sinks in compliance is that teachers need to constantly reach out to families for data and documents, track submissions in spreadsheets, continue to follow-up until everything’s been submitted, and then manually validate each document, starting the whole cycle again if something’s invalid. We’ve heard some teachers refer to themselves as “professional nags”.\n\nOther industries that are outreach-heavy have already solved this problem. For example, HubSpot has solved this for sales by automating follow-ups until prospects respond.\n\nScout treats each student like a customer in a CRM: students moves through a variety of funnels, from annual tasks like enrollment and re-enrollment to daily tasks like tracking attendance or engagement with online curriculum providers. Scout’s built-in drip campaigns make sure students and parents complete tasks without teacher or administrator involvement, only flagging the students who need attention and removing the burden on schools to manually track all of these funnels.\n\nScout’s AI agents automatically reach out to parents and students via phone, email, text, and the Scout mobile app to get them to fill out forms, upload documents, mark excused absences, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87832&key=user_uploads/1495921/093d586b-f015-49f7-8bae-ef39d01de1ce)\n\nRight now, schools put multiple levels of compliance checks in place to make sure that submitted documents are valid. To reduce the number of humans that need to check over each document, Scout proactively scans every document for compliance on ingestion, highlighting exactly what’s wrong and how to fix it. With Scout, schools reduce the possibility for human errors while avoiding the back and forth that comes with invalid documentation.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87832&key=user_uploads/1495921/4b705cad-b848-44fb-bf55-4d6530b68add)\n\n**24/7 internal audits**\n\nThroughout the course of the school year, Scout monitors every dimension of compliance, highlighting only the items that need attention. With Scout, schools can shift their mental model from checking every single document and database row for compliance to only looking at the ones that are out of compliance - saving as much as 95% of the time they spend on compliance tasks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87832&key=user_uploads/1495921/1b4e76e6-86cd-49fe-943b-64a4f0f655c4)\n\n**End-to-end government reporting**\n\nThroughout the school year, California schools need to report information to a number of state and federal bodies, including the California Department of Education (via a number of systems like CALPADS, PADC, and ConApp), and the federal Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. These reports often take weeks to compile, because data errors aren’t discovered until submission, and understanding exactly what’s wrong and how to fix it is an extremely time-consuming process. Current SIS providers don’t report directly to the state, so schools are exporting CSVs, and their edits aren’t reflected in the SIS.\n\nScout manages the reporting process end-to-end with proactive error discovery, a step-by-step error resolution flow, and automated submission without leaving the page.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87832&key=user_uploads/1495921/344b8853-ec8c-451d-84c0-6e95c6ee5cc4)\n\n# **Our team** 🤼\n\nNoah (CEO)\n\n* coding since 12 years old, started his first company at 17 selling licenses to a sneaker bot (500K ARR)\n* first engineer at Slash (S21), where he worked for 3 years, bringing dozens of products and features from zero to one\n* degrees from UMD in CS and education policy\n\nMax (CTO)\n\n* coding since 13 years old, early eng at a number of startups\n* led a product/engineering team at TodayTix for 4 years\n* CS degree from UCL\n\nWe met on the first day of high school in 2013, and we’ve been best friends ever since, hacking on side projects like sneaker bots throughout high school and college.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87832&key=user_uploads/1495921/88c7fa91-cb9b-4202-af7b-12f5b1f930cc)\n\n# **Our ask** 🙏\n\nIf you know anyone who works at a school district or charter school in California, particularly if they oversee compliance/reporting/other administrative tasks, please send them this post or connect us!\n\nIf you’d like to see a demo of Scout, send me an email at noah@teachwithscout.com. 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We are [Guang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/guang-cui/) and [Tyrone](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyroned3/) - cofounders of Miyagi Labs.\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nWe use AI to transform YouTube content into complete, interactive courses—imagine a 3Blue1Brown video turned into an online course with quizzes and study material. We help people learn better with active practice and personalized feedback.\n\n[Demo video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8AfVemdtr0)\n\n**The Problem**\n\nLearning is flawed: online resources are everywhere, but 1-1 tutoring (which most people can’t afford) is still 2 standard deviations more effective than other methods. \n\nYouTube has top-notch content on everything for free, but how do you turn that passive watching into active learning?\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nContent creators, educators, and learners can instantly convert educational videos into structured, interactive courses that drive real learning.\n\nOur [platform](https://miyagilabs.ai/) automatically generates short-answer and multiple-choice questions, quizzes, and AI-driven feedback, turning passive watching into an active, engaging experience. 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He has also become an elite American Ninja Warrior and coached students at multiple gyms. \n\nBecause of our experiences, we have unique insights on how to learn and teach effectively.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcZGlsLXlxt9UIr3jpoxf_jhxX2KJnG75yF9hN2hzm3aiGL_y96LBErUiCn6V1aDxuGFbLA9w8P9Eq2zd2UrDZsN9Otld5mCOmjPw3qhUyQgtrREpnlsgpEaYeLyckr-k0WtvQs?key=JK8gbU_5XOAH5k3bm1TXYGo-)\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nIf you know…\n\n* Businesses that want to convert internal product videos or notes into online training courses for employees\n* Educators or content creators who want to turn their videos into interactive courses\n* Anyone interested in learning something new\n\n…we'd love to hear from you.\n\nEmail: [founders@miyagilabs.ai](mailto:founders@miyagilabs.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mr9-miyagi-labs-ai-to-transform-youtube-content-into-interactive-courses", "votes": 83, "created_at": "2025-02-20T16:40:13.520Z" } ] }, { "id": 30442, "name": "YouLearn", "slug": "youlearn", "former_names": [ "YouLearn", "Hanji" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d95a92c88005262cd010ecec020011f74b07cf63.png", "website": "https://www.youlearn.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "YouLearn is an AI tutor for college students. 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Full methodology [here](https://hanji.dev/bench)._\n\n### **Results**\n\nAfter tuning Hanji to each customer’s document workflow, one YC healthcare company improved their text accuracy from **71% on our first pass to 96.5% within a few days.** Another reduced its end-to-end latency from **1.5 minutes to under 1 minute** with Hanji extracting **78/78 fields** containing payer to member ID associations across 53 packets. 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For PHI documents, we can sign a BAA and enable access the same day.\n\nFor any other questions or feedback, email us directly at [founders@hanji.dev](mailto:founders@hanji.dev).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/S7J-hanji-turn-your-hardest-documents-into-reliable-data", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2026-07-28T17:32:44.891Z" }, { "id": 90256, "title": "YouLearn - An AI tutor personalized to each student", "tagline": "YouLearn turns your learning materials into concise notes, an AI tutor you can talk to, and personalized tests", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re [Achyut](https://www.linkedin.com/in/achyut-byanjankar/), [David](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-yu-871202244/), and [Soami](https://www.linkedin.com/in/soamikapadia/) from [YouLearn](https://www.youlearn.ai/).\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\nYouLearn is an AI tutor personalized to each student. In the last **eight months**, we’ve grown from **$1K to $70K MRR**, with **150,000 monthly active users**, by providing concise notes, an AI tutor you can talk to, and personalized tests based on your learning materials.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/wVkQXY49JiE\n\n# **📍 How we started**\n\nWe met two weeks into college and started hacking on projects in our dorm. By sophomore year, we were fed up with watching **long, outdated lecture videos** and reading **dense textbooks**, only to forget a few days later. Generic AI tools gave **quick answers**, but those shortcuts left us with only **surface-level understanding**. We kept **cramming before exams**, forgetting most of it soon after, and repeating the same cycle.\n\n# **💻 What we built**\n\nOut of that frustration, we built **YouLearn**. Upload any learning material, and YouLearn turns it into **clear notes**, an **AI tutor** that walks you through the topic, and **adaptive quizzes** to help you remember. Learning is now **faster, easier, and more memorable.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90256&key=user_uploads/1378551/166ca331-2283-486c-a7a4-074ae4ea4c86)\n\n# **🧑‍🎓 Why students choose YouLearn**\n\n* **Designed by students, for students:** As recent undergrads, we lived the stress of college life, so we built YouLearn’s AI tutor and quizzes to solve these challenges.\n* **Everything in one place:** One upload instantly delivers notes, an AI tutor, and quizzes. 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We’re both Oxford math grads, have tutored for a decade, and we’re creating the future of learning which will be entirely 1-on-1.\n\n[Launch Video](https://youtu.be/Ec8Nwe0EaSU)\n\n# ❌ **Problem**\n\nWith AI that’s so great at math, why can’t it teach at near-human quality?\n\n* Math is handwritten ✏️\n* Math has to be practiced not read 🧮\n* AI is rubbish at spotting _your_ mistakes 🔍\n\n# ✅ **Solution**\n\n* Freeform writing on a whiteboard app ✍️\n* Accuracy of a calculator with symbolic logic 🔢\n* Real-time feedback on every stroke (< 300ms) ⚡\n\n# ⚙️ **How we do it?**\n\nWith tens of thousands of lines of Python and Wolfram Language code. Writing on an iPad, we convert the stroke data to LaTeX, parse it, ask a million symbolic questions about it with reference to the problem’s _ground truth_ (the lines with a blue index), and assess whether it is right, wrong or something in between.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90706&key=user_uploads/1522067/b06893f5-bab0-4021-b09e-c8d38b33e4ee)\n\nWe do **not** rely on the vibes of a language model to assess the details of their working - too slow and unreliable. Many students give up on LLMs for genuine collaboration when they mislead them on topics the student finds difficult.\n\n**We can handle a lot of math already.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90706&key=user_uploads/1522067/df464a12-f051-4c0a-8c03-90e660079c40)\n\n# **💡 Core insight**\n\nWe tried all the AI tutor desktop formulations we could imagine, but beyond the obvious interface challenge, AI is exceptionally poor at spotting the subtle mistakes students often make. LLMs are great at doing correct math, but much worse at pulling out an error within the many lines of messy student reasoning.\n\nWe started performing a symbolic analysis of the student’s working as context for the AI to boost accuracy - **but then we realised we could give this straight to the student.** This was when we started to feel the magic.\n\n# **🙏 Our Ask**\n\nSo far, _every_ single teacher we’ve demoed our iPad app to in person has immediately started work greenlighting a pilot. Let us know if you can introduce us to any math teachers teaching between Algebra I and Calculus I.\n\nAnd you can check out Chiron on the [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/project-chiron/id6502346822) now - or share with any students who might benefit from it!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90706&key=user_uploads/1522067/7b18b9c0-1e00-49fa-a8bb-d6ab7bb7d080)\n\nCheers, James & Max", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nb0-chiron-grammarly-for-math", "votes": 105, "created_at": "2025-05-24T20:19:56.044Z" } ] }, { "id": 30463, "name": "Tegore", "slug": "tegore", "former_names": [ "Odapt" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d196de4608bb9b987f4f42bb705af43c038b6069.png", "website": "https://tegore.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Tegore follows K-12 school curriculum to design courses like Algebra I & Algebra II. 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Teachers have already graded thousands of worksheets and saved hundreds of hours using Frizzle! \n\n**Frizzle is an official [White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/edai/) partner for bringing AI into education!**\n\n**Ask**: Can you introduce us to any math teachers, schools, or districts that would benefit from Frizzle? Contact us at [abhay@frizzle.com](mailto:abhay@frizzle.com)\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zx_mCw8soI\n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nTeaching is one of the most important jobs in society, yet teachers are among the most overworked professionals. Many work 50–70 hours a week, often grading late into the night and on weekends.\n\nAcross the U.S., there’s a national teacher shortage where 1 in 8 teaching roles remain unfilled. Superintendents and principals consistently mention that teacher time is now their most valuable resource. But teachers lose 10+ hours every week just grading math assignments, time that could be spent supporting students. 25% of all their work is spent grading!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93211&key=user_uploads/332377/7654e581-e8c4-4cf2-b330-6f78bddfd521)\n\nExisting grading tools handle essays or multiple-choice questions, but fail with math, especially handwritten step-by-step work. Classrooms are also moving back to pen and paper, but teachers are left with more paperwork than ever and no scalable way to manage it.\n\nThis has created a massive bottleneck in the classroom, adding to burnout and pushing talented teachers out of the profession.\n\nUntil now…\n\n**✅ Our Solution**\n\nAt Frizzle, we’re a team of former math nerds and AI experts building the first system that actually handles math grading at scale.\n\nTeachers simply upload or snap a photo of student work and instantly get back:\n\n* **Accurate grading** ✏️: Every step graded in seconds, whether it’s handwritten or typed.\n* **Actionable insights** 📊: A class dashboard highlighting where each student is struggling across assignments.\n* **Student-friendly feedback** 🧑‍🏫: Clear explanations that help students learn from their mistakes, not just see a score.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfy5uI9ZGxksf8CXCUL5xLmMc9MdRY5IM3WmuBqz9HFynZMzwCudL_y5ydsK41z55RDJksFqnHEEw3aU48mgTUx4bm_VXnAZlSS7pbenqW9JOQIef6oQIZ4IWpTAdQ_LcW_Nh8oJg?key=q7LswlE0gngKWIM4LuJkjQ)\n\nFrizzle eliminates the 10–15 hours a week teachers lose to grading, giving them time back to focus on what matters most - teaching.\n\n**🙏 Our Ask**\n\nIf you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d love your help:\n\n* Do you know any math teachers that would benefit from an extra 10 hours in their week?\n* Do you know any schools or districts that would benefit from saving their teachers 10+ hours a week?\n* Have you scaled B2B SaaS into K–12 districts or worked closely with educators?\n\n👉 Contact us at [abhay@frizzle.com](mailto:abhay@frizzle.com)\n\nYour help can make a huge difference in bringing Frizzle to more teachers. Thank you!\n\n**👬 The Team**\n\nAbhay and Shyam have been best friends and roommates since high school, where they met 10 years ago at the Illinois Math and Science Academy.\n\nAbhay (CEO) has helped scale an e-learning platform to millions in revenue and was previously a Product Manager at Coinbase, where he drove $50M in incremental revenue. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Economics from Vanderbilt University.\n\nShyam (CTO) was a Machine Learning Engineer at Microsoft, holds a patent in LLM applications, and co-founded the Midwest Math Circle, which has served hundreds of students for more than a decade. 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Our first product, the AI Advisor, improves retention by connecting to university systems (SIS, LMS, and CRM) and unifying student data to flag at-risk students, send personalized outreach, and draft success plans, all in natural language. \n\n**Ask:** Know a university leader looking to improve retention? Introduce us! Email us at [founders@risely.ai](mailto:founders@risely.ai) or [book a demo](https://www.risely.ai/#bottom).\\\nhttps://youtu.be/qqyKgn7LmWE\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nColleges spend millions of dollars recruiting students, only to have 1 in 3 students drop out because of poor student service.\n\nAcademic advisors – the front line of student support – spend more time digging through clunky systems to manually find at-risk students than helping them succeed.\n\nBy the time they realize a student is struggling, students have already slipped through the cracks. \n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nRisely’s AI Advisor improves retention and expands a university’s capacity to deliver personalized support to every student. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92561&key=user_uploads/2145090/6a0960dc-5aad-4498-98cd-bd72892d089d)\n\n**Our AI Advisor works across the SIS, LMS, and CRM to:** \n\n📍  Flag students showing signs of risk before it’s too late\\\n✍🏽 Generate personalized success plans in seconds\\\n🧠 Answer questions about students, courses, and caseloads in natural language\\\n🗂️ Send personalized outreach and follow-ups\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92561&key=user_uploads/2145090/ae6c7627-5ade-4447-bb02-0fe79637ba02)\n\n**And this is just the beginning.**\n\nRisely’s AI agents will form the new operating system for universities, improving retention, staff productivity, and efficiency. Next, we’re building an  AI Sidekick for every student, an AI Registrar, and an AI Research Admin - all deeply connected to campus workflows and knowledge.\n\nRisely’s early customers include private colleges, large public systems, and online universities - all delivering personalized support at scale without increasing headcount.\n\n### **The Founders**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92561&key=user_uploads/2145090/7ebc529f-3f17-431b-97f8-8a52804b4e35)\n\n**Sadia (CPO)** – Sadia spent 7 years at Salesforce leading product for Education Cloud, where she launched a next-gen Student Information System now used by universities globally. She also served as a UC Regent, shaping policy at one of the largest public systems in the world.\n\n**Danial (CTO)** – Danial was a senior engineering leader at DoorDash, where he built the Voice AI and Search platforms that powered billions of customer interactions. He specializes in scalable AI systems and enterprise-grade infrastructure.\n\n**Shahryar (CEO)** – Shahryar is a former Bain consultant and GM who built Airwallex’s U.S. business from scratch, scaled growth teams across sales and marketing, and led $20M+ enterprise deals at Nerdwallet. He brings deep go-to-market and operating expertise to Risely.\n\nWe met at UC Berkeley over 15 years ago and bring deep, complementary expertise across higher ed, AI, and startup execution. We started Risely to fix a system we know is broken, from the inside out.\n\n### **OUR ASK**\n\nWe are looking to connect with university leaders who want to shape the future of AI in higher ed. If you know someone focused on student success, we’d love to hear from you.\n\n👉 [Book a demo](https://www.risely.ai/#bottom) or email us at [founders@risely.ai](mailto:founders@risely.ai)\\\n👉 Follow us on[ Twitter/X](https://twitter.com/RiselyAI) and\\[ LinkedIn\\\n\\](https://linkedin.com/company/risely-ai) 👉 YC batchmates, reach out if you want to jam on use cases or pilot ideas\\\n📣 Share this post with anyone in your network working in student success, advising, or higher ed innovation.\n\nThank you!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92561&key=user_uploads/2145090/37f17b62-c0c1-406d-aec6-4ae9e82012ba)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O4v-risely-ai-agents-that-automate-administrative-tasks-across-college-campuses", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2025-07-30T04:49:18.725Z" } ] }, { "id": 32551, "name": "Bloomy", "slug": "bloomy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/209c1fdd9d657cb4fad05300bbb0faf304f4d29c.png", "website": "https://bloomylearning.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Bloomy is the best way to teach anything in school. 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In early pilots, students grew \\~2x faster than the national average.**\n\n[Bloomy](https://bloomylearning.com) is an AI-powered mastery learning platform for K-12 students. We diagnose students’ skill gaps, place students on a personalized learning path, and give them standards-aligned lessons and a Socratic AI tutor that helps without just giving away the answer.\n\nLaunch video: \n\n**Why I'm building this**\n\nI started as a teacher. I taught 7th grade English and Writing with Teach For America, and every day I struggled to deliver differentiated instruction to 30 students with 30 different sets of needs.\n\nSome students needed remediation, some needed acceleration, and many needed a tutor sitting next to them helping them reason through the next step. Benjamin Bloom's 2-sigma result always felt obviously true to me; the hard part was making that kind of tutoring affordable and available to every child.\n\nThen AI changed the cost curve. \n\nWhen I saw innovative school concepts such as Alpha School, the model clicked: mastery-based learning, personalization, and high-agency students. But I kept thinking about the families and schools that already exist: homeschool families, microschools, hybrid schools, and regular classrooms where most kids are today.\n\n**What Bloomy does**\n\nBloomy starts with a diagnostic (we integrate with third-party diagnostics and provide our own in-house one) and places each student onto a personalized learning path. Students work one skill at a time, get a short, standards-aligned lesson, practice, ask BloomyBot for Socratic help when they're stuck, and only move forward after showing 90%+ mastery. The skill path updates live based on the student’s performance and our own knowledge graph.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=104376&key=user_uploads/3410278/aff91335-737d-4b76-bcc2-40414d3f3c08)\n\n_Our knowledge graph informs skill progression to make learning more efficient._\n\nParents and teachers can see what the student has mastered, what's in progress, and where they need support.\n\n**Where we are**\n\nWe're being adopted in many different contexts: districts with traditional schools, charter schools, hybrid schools, microschools, homeschools, and even families who just want some extra academic support for their kids.\n\nFamilies can subscribe to Bloomy monthly or annually, and families using ESA/EFA funds may also qualify for direct pay or reimbursement depending on their state’s rules.\n\nBefore Bloomy, I taught with TFA, earned my Master’s in Education, designed GMAT and GRE curriculum for Manhattan Prep, led Lyft’s driver growth team for New England, earned an MBA from Stanford, and managed AI transformation engagements at McKinsey. Bloomy is the thing that combines all the aspects of my career: learning design, go-to-market, and AI.\n\nIf you want to reach out, you can email me at [alex@bloomylearning.com](mailto:alex@bloomylearning.com) or follow our updates on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bloomy-yc-s26/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=104376&key=user_uploads/3410278/9c55515e-0577-460d-955d-e1c3cb587f06)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/R9U-bloomy-ai-powered-mastery-learning-for-k-12", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2026-07-01T15:05:35.719Z" } ] } ]