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College Pulse (YC S18) — Research and analytics company focused on college students

College Pulse is the leading research and analytics company focused on college students. We have built the largest database of college student opinion with over 700K student panelists from 1500 universities in all 50 states, and we use our student panel to help our clients better understand the college demographic.

College Pulse is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2018 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Research and analytics company focused on college students. The founder listed is Terren Klein (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, April 26, 2018).

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College Pulse

New accelerator entry · 2018-04-26 · the record

Summer 2018
batch
9
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchSummer 2018
Announced2018-04-26
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size9
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Analytics
SectorsEducation, Analytics
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Fully Remote
BasedFrisco, CO, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
HiringNo
Sitehttps://collegepulse.com/

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College Pulse is the leading research and analytics company focused on college students. We have built the largest database of college student opinion with over 700K student panelists from 1500 universities in all 50 states, and we use our student panel to help our clients better understand the college demographic. Our ambition is to become a unique part of the global internet infrastructure - like Google for search, Facebook for social, Amazon for retail, we want it to be Pulse for public opinion.

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