Tyler Bosmeny built Clever into a $500M company–now he’s helping YC founders do the same as General Partner
Y Combinator
APRIL 1, 2025
When Tyler applied to YC in 2012, his startup idea was an unusual one. An API for schools? But outliers always sound unusual at the outset. At Demo Day, he shocked the room when he announced that he’d already signed on 1,000 schools. Over the next 10 years, he and his cofounders grew Clever into an educational powerhouse, used every day by over half of K-12 students in the USA– my kids included.
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