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Quad

Quad is where college students get things done. Today, over 41% of students drop out, 1 in 3 struggle with time management, and 45% end up underemployed because most solutions are ineffective for the modern student. We built Quad to fix this. Quad enables students to automatically keep track of their daily coursework, chat with their classmates, and get help - all in one mobile platform. Our proprietary technology transforms assignment information traditionally locked inside the syllabus into dy

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #751

Quad is where college students get things done. Today, over 41% of students drop out, 1 in 3 struggle with time management, and 45% end up underemployed because most solutions are ineffective for the modern student. We built Quad to fix this. Quad enables students to automatically keep track of their daily coursework, chat with their classmates, and get help - all in one mobile platform. Our proprietary technology transforms assignment information traditionally locked inside the syllabus into dy

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Quad 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.

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Quadproprietary technologycollege students
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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.

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Companies similar to Quad

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.

HighlightCam

match 57

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shared product terms: over, time, mobile, most; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Pluto Money

match 44

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shared extracted concept terms: college, student; shared product terms: mobile, college, student

SWYE360 Learning

match 42

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shared extracted concept terms: student; shared product terms: student, over, struggle, track

OpenInvest

match 40

OpenInvest is the first technology-backed, socially responsible investment asset management platform that aligns your investments with your values. OpenInvest’s proprietary technology seamlessly creates low-cost investment portfolios tailored to your values, while tracking market indices. A mission-driven company, OpenInvest was one of the first VC-backed Public Benefit Corporations.

shared extracted concepts: proprietary technology; shared product terms: management, proprietary, track; same category: Enterprise SaaS; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Quero Education

match 35

Quero is an online marketplace for college programs in Brazil. It helps students search, compare and enroll in programs in over 1200 partner colleges, saving money on tuition. Follow Us: facebook.com/queroedu instagram.com/queroedu twitter.com/queroedu quero.education/carreiras

shared extracted concept terms: student; shared product terms: college, student, over; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Story2

match 34

Story2 expands writing through storytelling. We've taught over 25,000 students to tell their stories and advocate for themselves in college admissions--and all

shared extracted concept terms: college; shared product terms: over, student, college