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Quero Education

Quero is an online marketplace for college programs in Brazil. It…

Y CombinatorSummer 2016ActiveEducationEducationMarketplace

What they do

Problem

Students in Brazil struggle to find, compare, and afford suitable college programs and tuition options.

Solution

An online marketplace that lets students search, compare, and enroll in degree programs across 1200+ partner colleges with discounted tuition.

Who it's for

Prospective and current students in Brazil looking for higher-education programs and lower tuition costs.

Founders

Bernardo de Padua
Founder/CEO

Founder of Quero Education, YC S16 and YCG S18. Scaled company from 0 to 800 employees mostly on bootstrap from 2013 to 2019. Global EdTech and LatAm angel investor. Hacker at heart, messing with web and PC stuff since I was a kid in Brazil in the 90’s. Computer Engineering Degree from ITA in Brazil, the IIT Delhi of LatAm, probably the hardest College admission exam in the americas. Dropped out of a Master’s degree in CS to start my first failed startup in 2010.

Thiago Brandão
Founder

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