MathDash

Learning Platform for Math Competitions

Y CombinatorWinter 2024ActiveEducationEducationConsumer

What they do

Problem

Students preparing for math competitions struggle to stay motivated and consistently practice through textbooks while tracking measurable progress.

Solution

MathDash is an online learning platform that gamifies working through math textbooks and provides progress tracking to build consistent practice habits.

Who it's for

Students preparing for math competitions (and often their parents or coaches) use the platform.

Founders

Daniel Sun

Founder

Daniel is the co-founder and CEO of MathDash. He was a math competition champion in high school, qualifying for the Math Olympiad Summer Program, which opened doors to MIT and Jane Street. Daniel is now creating MathDash to create an online playground for math games and to get students addicted to learning.

Akshaj Kadaveru

Founder

Akshaj is the co-founder and CTO of MathDash. He is a former serial math competition participant (two-time top-12 finisher in the ESPN nationally broadcasted MATHCOUNTS Countdown Round) who spent thousands of hours of his childhood playing an online math game. He studied CS at MIT, and built (with Daniel) a MIT class comparison site with 2000 users, a guess-the-song game with 6000 players, and worked at Gather, Jump Trading, and Wormhole Labs as a software engineer.