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Pragmatic Leaders (YC W21) — AI-powered corporate Training: Faster, Smarter, and more effective

Ostronaut is an AI-powered, SaaS-based corporate training solution built to transform workforce learning. Its foundations come from six years of training 10,000+ product professionals through Pragmatic Leaders, which provided a faster, more cost-effective alternative to an MBA. 🚀 Smarter, faster, and designed for real-world impact. - Initiative of Pragmatic Leaders

Pragmatic Leaders is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2021 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI-powered Corporate Training: Faster, Smarter, and More Effective. The founders listed are Talvinder Singh (Founder), Meera Khokhani (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, March 4, 2021).

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Pragmatic Leaders (Ankai Inc)

New accelerator entry · 2021-03-04 · the record

Winter 2021
batch
10
people
Early
stage
India
region
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BatchWinter 2021
Announced2021-03-04
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size10
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B
SectorsArtificial Intelligence, SaaS, eLearning, Sales Enablement, AI
RegionsIndia, South Asia, Remote, Fully Remote
BasedGurugram, HR, India; Remote
HiringNo
Sitehttps://pragmaticleaders.io, https://ostronaut.com
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Ostronaut is an AI-powered, SaaS-based corporate training solution built to transform workforce learning. Its foundations come from six years of training 10,000+ product professionals through Pragmatic Leaders, which provided a faster, more cost-effective alternative to an MBA. 🚀 Smarter, faster, and designed for real-world impact. - Initiative of Pragmatic Leaders

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