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Shepherd (YC W24) — Every student's personalized learning assistant

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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.

Shepherd is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2024 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Every student's personalized learning assistant. The founders listed are Moyosoreoluwa Orekoya (Founder/CEO), Marcella Imoisili (Founder/CTO), Kehinde Williams (Founder/COO) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 18, 2024).

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Shepherd

New accelerator entry · 2024-01-18 · the record

Winter 2024
batch
5
people
Early
stage
Remote
region
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2024
Announced2024-01-18
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size5
IndustryEducation
Sub-industryEducation
SectorsAI-Enhanced Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Education, Generative AI, Marketplace
RegionsRemote, Fully Remote
BasedRemote
HiringNo
Sitehttps://www.shepherd.study
Founded2023
YC group partnerGarry Tan

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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.

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Shepherd (YC W24) — Every student's personalized learning assistant. MentionFox, 2026-11-06. https://mentionfox.com/funding/yc-shepherd-2