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Enterprise SaaS

# Make School

Make School is redesigning college for the 21st century. Our bachelor's degree program combines liberal arts, computer science theory, software development, and character development with an emphasis on preparing students for successful careers as software engineers, product managers, or entrepreneurs. Our alumni work at Facebook, Google, Apple, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Lyft and more. Our college is accessible to students of all backgrounds, 40% are underrepresented minority students and 50% come fro

sources

2

Evidence entries preserved.

affiliations

2

Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator

competitors

6

Mapped from High Signal graph features.

status

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artifact cache

last updated

2026-07-15

17:19 UTC

source evidence

Why this company exists here

## Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #3372

[official source](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/make-school)

## Andreessen Horowitz

a16z-investment-list #569

[official source](https://a16z.com/investment-list/)

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High Signal interpretation

Make School is classified as **Enterprise SaaS** from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction

Product facets

software developmentcomputer science theorycharacter development

mapping method

Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

## Companies similar to Make School

Enterprise SaaS · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

[### Insight Data Science match 75The Insight Data Science Fellows Program is an intensive seven week post-doctoral training fellowship bridging the gap to new careers in Data Science, Data Engineering, Health Data, and AI in Silicon Valley, New York City, Boston, Seattle and across the US with our Remote program. Insight is a Palo Alto based education startup, funded by Y Combinator and SV Angel, with 1000 alumni at hundreds of companies including Facebook, Netflix, LinkedIn, Twitter, The New York Times, Apple, Airbnb, Microsofshared extracted concept terms: science; shared product terms: science, program, career, engineer; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/insight-data-science)[### CodeCombat match 69CodeCombat 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 shared extracted concept terms: computer, science; shared product terms: school, student, computer, science; shared affiliation: Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/codecombat)[### Jovian match 63Jovian is an online university for software development and data science. We offer practical and industry-focused programs that help professionals learn technical skills, build real-world projects, and advance their careers. Students learn practical skills, build real-world portfolio projects, and undergo job readiness training. Our tutors offer 24x7 guidance & mentorship over Slack & Zoom. Students also get access to jobs with 200+ hiring partners.shared extracted concepts: software development; shared product terms: development, science, program, career; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/jovian)[### Kastle match 61Kastle is an AI voice agent for mortgage servicing. We help servicers collect payments, verify new borrowers, and qualify new loan inquiries over the phone. Rishi and Nitish met at UIUC where they graduated with degrees in systems engineering and computer science. Rishi was the founding Product Manager for Redfin’s Mortgage Marketplace at 22 and grew the business from $3M to $6M in revenue in 9 months. Nitish patented Verkada’s motion search system and was the youngest tech lead at the company ashared extracted concept terms: computer, science; shared product terms: degree, engineer, computer, science; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/kastle)[### Edvisor.io match 24School and Agency Collaboration For the 21st Centuryshared product terms: school, 21st, century](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/edvisor-io)[### Matchday match 6Other company.shared affiliation: Andreessen Horowitz; nearby official-directory cohort](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/matchday)

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