eLearning Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2024

In today’s environment, employees need training to ensure business compliance, skill development and to support an engaged workforce. Go1 brings together content from the world’s top training providers and makes it easy to access in whichever platform your organization uses. This makes it easier to deliver, manage and engage with training. Go1 also works with existing LMS, HRIS, and business systems to make learning simpler and more effective.

Platzi cracked online education. It teaches courses on design, marketing and programming with a 70% completion rate, to over one million students worldwide. The classes include real-time collaboration among students and industry leaders as teachers. It aims to be the professional home for lifelong learning of advanced skills.

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.

Arist is the text message learning platform. We help Fortune 500 companies and governments rapidly teach and train employees, entirely via text message.

Juni is a membership-driven learning platform designed to help each student discover and pursue their passions with joy. The company offers award-winning curriculums in Computer Science, Math, and English for students 7-18 taught by near-peer instructors from top universities and access to a global community. Through project-centered courses, best-in-class technology, and the power of community, Juni’s varied learning experiences prepare students for their best future. Juni is backed by Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures, Y Combinator Co-founder Jessica Livingston, Arielle Zuckerberg, and more. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and was recently featured in Forbes, Fortune, WSJ, Fast Company and TechCrunch.

Codingal is an online after-school for K-12 students to learn coding by buildings apps, games, and websites. All classes are taught live 1:1 by vetted and trained all-star teachers with Computer Science background, which sets them apart. Many countries have great technical universities but literally zero programming education at the K-12 level. Parents want their kids to get started with programming earlier, and that's why they use Codingal. Every kid gets a personalized learning path and personalized individual attention in 1:1 classes with teachers. Kids learn by building apps, games, websites, and robotics in a fun & engaging way. Kids find it so fun & engaging that NPS is just outstanding - 86. They have rated teachers at 4.9 out of 5. Curriculum content is rated at 4.8 out of 5. Codingal is on a mission to inspire kids to fall in love with coding, and provide the right education to them who will be able to create anything they can imagine and build the future when they grow up to become entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists.

Extern (formerly Paragon One) invented the remote Externship, a completely new form of real work experience with integrated learning. Our mission is to help anyone discover and launch their career through real professional experiences available anywhere, anytime. Since 2019, we’ve created and powered Externships on behalf of companies -- from Fortune 500s to startups -- that have enabled tens of thousands of students to build real work experience on their resumes and open doors to incredible job opportunities. Extern leverages software and industry experts to make Externships possible and incredibly streamlined for both students and companies. Work experience is the credential that matters most, but getting it when you don’t have experience can be hard. We envision a world where anyone can access work experience as a form of education – no matter their background, experience, or socio-economic status. By making work experience more accessible, Extern is driving the rapid mobility and upskilling needed for a new economy. Come join our movement to reshape work, education, and credentialing for future generations with the Externship. Extern was born out of a pivot from Paragon One (W17) which initially focused on providing students with a career center-as-a-service platform, connecting them with industry professionals to receive career coaching and guidance.

Stepful trains people with a high school education in 4 months and places them into healthcare jobs. Healthcare is the fastest growing industry in the US accounting for 40% of all jobs added including medical assistants, nursing assistants, and phlebotomists.

We are building live teaching infrastructure that enables handful of top educators (from Google, Facebook, etc) to coach a large number of students. We train college students in a year-long live cohorts and they pay us a portion of their salary as fees once they get a tech job (Income Sharing Agreement)

Founded in 2010, BloomBoard is leading the shift from professional development to career advancement via micro-certification. The company partners with states, districts, and employers to enable a unique online learning experience where individuals improve their actual job-related practices and advance in their careers by earning micro-credentials. BloomBoard aims to help all organizations transition to meaningful, purpose-driven professional learning and advancement based on measurable certification. For more information, visit bloomboard.com.

EduRev is like a Netflix for Education with a layer of social networking. We want to make the process of education and learning so good that you (and your kids) don’t feel the need to go to a school/college/coaching. EduRev stands for Education Revolution and we are looking to achieve nothing less. EduRev has over 7 million students and adds around 10 new users each minute. We are backed by the iconic American VC Y Combinator, Artiman Ventures and even angel investors like Anand Chandrashekaran, Austen Allred, Martin Basiri to name a few. We won the Best App award (for learning) by Google, mBillionth award by Bill and Melinda Gates, and even won Startup of the Year by TieCon. Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.edurev Website: http://edurev.in/ iOS App (beta): https://apps.apple.com/in/app/edurev/id1529835494

Pair AI is Shopify for knowledge products. We empower creators, educators, and experts to launch addicting mobile-first video courses and provide AI-assisted coaching services at scale. Our platform is a one-stop shop to seamlessly monetize what you know! We make learning as fun and engaging as watching a TikTok.

Female Invest is on a mission to close the financial gender gap. By creating a safe space and a trusted source for knowledge, we’re democratising investing for everyone globally. We’ve supported more than half a million women across 100 countries with our services. This makes us the world's largest univers combining financial learning and community. Currently, we make $5.2 million in ARR from approx. 43.000 paying users. 92% of our users are on a yearly plan, and average churn is 2.4% in the last 3 months. Our unit economics are best in class and consistently improving . We’ve raised approximately $12 million in seed funding from prominent investors across the EU and US and are soon ready to raise our Series A, where we are aiming to close an additional $10-15 million. The company operates within FinTech, EdTech and Investing. In 2022, Female Invest did its first acquisition by acquiring the Danish investing platform, GAIA Technologies A/S. The company’s headquarter is located in Copenhagen and has a smaller office in London. Download our app to get the full experience.

Spokn makes it easy for People and Comms teams to make videos starring their own employees and leaders - no editing skills or special equipment necessary. In minutes, you can create videos that feel as engaging as TikTok, and share them anywhere: Slack/Teams, your LMS, intranet, careers page, or job offer emails. Companies like Udemy, SiriusXM, Sonos, GoFundMe and more use Spokn to create engaging videos for their learning & development, internal comms, recognition, DEI and employer branding.

Unschool provides real-world professional education that colleges in India do not provide. We are a marketplace where college students in India can learn about technology, management and arts from high-quality courses created by experts from around the world.

Flockjay is an AI-powered platform for sales teams looking to get the knowledge they need, when they need it, to close more deals. We combine learning, content, and performance management in one place, so teams can effectively share best practices, coach faster and more effectively, and drive faster onboarding and productivity times.

Scrimba is a coding course platform with over 120K monthly active students. It's based on a new video format that makes the screencasts fully interactive for students, and easier to create for teachers. Our vision is to create a coding school that has the quality of Stanford but the price of a gym membership.

Poliglota is the online language school for Latam, where group classes are led by an instructor. Over 12,000 students have paid us $500 to learn english in order to get a higher income. We offer an online service of personalized language sessions with small groups of people of the same level, guided by expert language coaches that we train in our social methodology.

At Resolve we’re building the future of simulations using immersive technology like VR and AR. Today, Resolve helps bridge the communication gap between people who operate buildings and those who design and build them. We've built the most robust application for reviewing industrial facilities on wireless VR devices like the Oculus Quest - our customers love it because it just works even with complex 3D building models. From data centers to cutting-edge biopharma facilities, Resolve provides a collaborative virtual environment for operations & maintenance teams to review and interact with 3D building models at full scale - decreasing late stage changes during the construction process and delivering a safer, more easily operable building. Our customers' facilities contain a multitude of complex systems which require careful coordination and review to ensure the building is completed on time and within budget. To prevent rework and increased building maintenance costs, Resolve fixes the broken system of screen-sharing 3D models and 2D floorplans with the operations teams that inherit the building and, instead, gives them easy access to their 3D building models before concrete is poured.

CodeCombat is a multiplayer programming game for learning how to code. With thousands of schools and millions of students, we are bringing K12 computer science education to everyone, regardless of gender, race, or background. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn. The ultimate goal of CodeCombat is to bring more users into the field of computer programming by making the logic and syntax more accessible and enjoyable to learn. The end game is to educate a whole new generation of computer programmers that started their journey by slaying ogres and defending their castles from oncoming enemy hordes. We teach Python, JavaScript, and other languages directly in the browser. Teachers with no computer science background can get started in five minutes. In a world where all programmers have had to be second-language learners, do you want your students to become native speakers of code? Let's chat about bringing CodeCombat to your school! Find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/CodeCombat

Imagine doing personalised workouts with a fitness coach, but for school subjects. Students log into their session that has been scheduled with their coach, they can see their learning workout for the day. Their workout typically consists of watching an interactive video, writing explanations, giving feedback to other students, making an explainer video etc. They get constant feedback and encouragement from the coach and progress only after they have understood the pre-requisites.

We're replacing masters degrees in Brazil with cohort-based courses for top talent to advance their careers in tech. The programs incorporate hands-on learning with sessions led by experts from high-profile companies like Rappi, Nubank, Apple, Google, and more.

Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Our software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive whiteboard, making it easy for teachers and experts to create engaging video lessons and share them on the web. Students can replay these lessons any time, any place, on any connected device. We're on a mission to dramatically improve student achievement by extending the reach of great teaching.

A technical placement bootcamp in the Income Sharing Model. We train top tech talent with 0 upfront fee and place them across our partner companies. Also our program has a deep social impact. We provide special assistance to women and unemployed youth in India- both economically and socially.

Parents in Africa face either public schools with student-teacher ratios as high as 50:1 or private schools with tuition fees as high as $7500 per year, per child. Kidato classes have student-teacher ratios of 5:1 and teach the same rigorous international curriculum as other private schools — but at a fraction of the price. In our second semester, Kidato has enrolled more than 30 students into our learning-from-home program as a replacement for brick-and-mortar schools. We expect to triple this enrollment by our third semester.

Jumpcut creates captivating online courses. Online education today is fundamentally broken. Less than 10% of people who start an online course today finish it -- a completion rate that is unacceptable to us. Jumpcut courses have a 65% course completion rate. 90% of our users renew their Jumpcut subscription for the next month. Our motto: no lectures allowed. We're based in Hollywood, CA, and our team of 20 employees comes from the entertainment industry, where we've created viral videos totaling over half a billion views. We are a Y Combinator-backed company. (YC S16.) See our courses: https://app.jumpcut.com See the team: https://jumpcut.com/ See our vision: blog.jumpcut.com People love us: https://twitter.com/JumpcutHQ

GoodCourse is the TikTok-style corporate learning platform achieving 10x better completion rates, training employees on topics like compliance and inclusion.

We help Spanish-speaking companies create, execute and measure their online learning strategy. We offer more than 5.000 courses across three categories: Soft skills, business, and tech skills.

A web app that offers live online courses in programming, design, data, online marketing and more. Our courses are nearly as affordable as online Moocs (~$40 a month) and as effective as Bootcamps. We achieve this by running 100 person live classes with one expert professor and one mentor per 15 students. Every class, students need to turn in assignments that are corrected by their mentors and at the end of the course they need to turn in and approve a final project. We also help our selected students with careers services such as mockup interviews, Linkedin enhancement, and more. All of this creates a level of accountability that allows us to achieve really low churn levels (<9%). Our career tracks last between 9-11 months and we give our selected students their money back in case they don't get a job 6 months after they are done with the course.

Kiwify enables anyone to create and sell their online course in Brazil. We provide payment processing, video streaming and student management

Kurios is cohort based online courses for professionals in Latin America. Our instructors are professionals coming out of tech companies like Google, Amazon, Stripe and more. Our course completion rate is 90% and annual customer retention rate is 100%. We have 65 B2B customers and we up-skill their employees in product management, growth and data analytics, just to start with. Some customers: Walmart Mexico, Banorte (2nd bank in Mexico), Mercado Libre, BCP (#1 bank in Peru), Alicorp (leading CPG in Latam), Sura (leading pension fund), etc.

KaiPod Learning is a national network of microschools bringing school choice to every community in America. We work with education entrepreneurs to start high-quality community-based microschools to better serve students and their families. As more families stand up for choice in education and as more educators look for alternative career pathways, KaiPod Learning is helping bring microschools into the mainstream.

Meet Sparky, a fun and quirky AI buddy in the avatar of a friendly fox who kids can just speak with to build fluency and confidence with English speaking. Powered by Generative AI, and made magical with child-appropriate experience, features and topics, Sparky brings a whole world of knowledge and a judgement-free environment for kids to become comfortable with speaking English. 142 countries (outside English dominant countries) mandate English learning as part of the national education policy. These kids have exposure to English but feel underconfident and embarrassed to speak. The biggest problem across the classes and books they get, is the lack of real conversational practice. With AI, we're making this affordable accessible and enjoyable for kids across the world. We're a passionate team of educators with over 30 years of combined experience in building education products for kids and have held leadership positions are India's biggest education companies - Byju's and LEAD.

MathDash is an online live math-competition platform that gets students addicted to learning. Our target audience already spends thousands of hours doing math questions competitively, and we've *already* gotten the best of the best to switch to doing problems on our site - an average of 65 minutes a day among our 200 most active users, and a total of over 150,000 arithmetic questions solved in just the last week! Why? Because it is more thrilling and exciting to compete live, see yourself on a leaderboard, and improve your 'ELO' rating. We are USA Math Olympians, and have been the top power users on every single product marketed towards competitive math learners. What's missing is the math game that allows anyone at any level to play with math on demand and compete live at their level, whether it's in the back of an Uber or while training for a math competition.

With online courses, we help students graduate from University, starting from the admissions and throughout their entire college education until they graduate. All our courses include 24/7 interaction with our Tutors and Teachers making 95% of our users reach their desire score. We have prepared more than 10,000 students and in 2021 we have already made 800K which means 6X Year-over-Year growth.

Novatr (YC S21) offers online cohort-based courses for architects, engineers and designers in the AEC industry to advance their professional growth. We serve learners from 45+ countries including India, MENA, USA, Europe, and SEA. Our courses are delivered by professionals from global firms like Autodesk, BIG, Google, UNStudio, AECOM, and graduates are placed at top-tier architecture firms, construction companies and real estate companies. Project-based learning and peer-to-peer interaction in cohort makes learning enriching and increases the completion rates to 84%. Learners work in groups of 2-6 on live projects and create significant outputs from scratch. The company is led by alumni of SPA Delhi and IIT Madras.

Emebedding third-party apps and websites can often be a nightmare due to incompatible platforms, security issues, and poor UX. Adding multiplayer functionality to these embeds makes this problem exponentially more difficult. Enter Hyperbeam—an API that lets you embed virtual computers anywhere, including web, mobile, VR, and even VSCode. You can then open any third-party website or application, synchronize audio and video flawlessly among multiple participants, and add multi-user control with just a few lines of code. Uses cases and customer segments include remote learning, virtual offices, online casinos, productivity, watch parties and more. We are three technical founders from the University of Waterloo, and worked as engineers at Facebook, Yahoo, and Lyft. Our technology is battle-tested–we currently stream over 1.25M hours of video per month across every continent. https://hyperbeam.com?ch=yc

Sivi is an AI-powered English learning app. Learn English Speaking The Fastest Way (AI + Human) 😀 Practicing with AI English Tutor and Human is the fastest way to learn to speak. Try now to feel the change within a week.

An up-skilling platform that empowers teams with continuous learning tracks to equip them with the right skills at the right time. Our up-skilling programs are customised to business objectives of organisations across sales, customer success, general management, technology & product functions & promote employee development by enhancing their existing competencies and developing newer ones. AntWalk is powered by 3000+ Experts from 500+ Global Brands across 40+ Countries to power these courses and 1:1 Interactions.

Darsel is a AI-powered math education chatbot which is designed to supplement K12 education systems in resource-constrained environments. Darsel allows students to practice math questions & do their homework through platforms like SMS, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

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We started Mystery.org to create better explanations for every question children have about the world. We began with the 150 most common science questions that children ask teachers. We call this collection Mystery Science. Last year, more than 4 million children used Mystery Science in 50% of U.S. elementary schools. In an industry that is plagued by long sales cycles and high barriers to entry, we’ve sold thousands of schools without a single sales person. We’re backed by a great group of investors including Y Combinator, Learn Capital, and Reach Capital. We’re now moving on to all the other questions children have that they’ll never learn in school. In the last 18 months we received over 500,000 questions from children eager for better explanations of the world. Now we’re creating video explanations for every question. You can think of this like a visual Wikipedia for kids. Our goal is to create a generation of better thinkers. We think this is the most important problem to solve in the world today.

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.

Eduflow is a tool for running active online learning experiences. We are used at thousands of institutions around the world all the way from middle school to corporate training at Google. We believe that digital tools for learning need to be more than just a playlist of videos. We're building learning activities that instructors can use to engage learners and make them active participants in their own learning process.

It combines the latest adaptive learning and Natural Language Understanding technology with pedagogical content as well as on-demand human instructors to offer its students affordable, personalized, 1:1 learning. Based in San Francisco, the company was funded by General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Google Assistant Investments Program, and several other investors. Over 800 thousand students have improved their English with Edwin. In early 2020 Edwin merged with MyBuddy.ai. The resulting company kept the name “Buddy.ai”. Headquartered in San Francisco, it focuses on building a virtual English conversation partner for over 500 million children around the globe who are trying to learn English, but can't reach fluency because they lack genuine practice speaking the language. The company doubled down on its mobile app Buddy, the voice-based English tutor for kids, organically combining solutions developed by Buddy.ai and Edwin.