Quad combined coursework tracking, class communication, and study help in a single mobile application instead of splitting those needs across separate tools. Its place in Y Combinator's Summer 2011 batch brought accelerator support and a seed round.
The company's profiles emphasized daily student engagement as the basis for improving academic outcomes, and its LinkedIn listing showed specialties in education, technology, and mobile.
The company operated with a small team; its Y Combinator profile lists a team size of twelve. It depended on individual students adopting a new daily-use application, a distribution challenge for a company of that size.
The service ceased operations after its accelerator period, and its former website thequad.com now stands only as a historical record rather than an active channel.
Quad was a mobile application for college students that combined coursework tracking, class messaging, and study help in one place. Its profiles describe a platform that turned assignment information from syllabi into structured data students could use day to day.
The offering targeted individual students, and the company listed an office at 181 O'Farrell Street in San Francisco on its LinkedIn profile. The product is no longer available and the company's profiles are inactive.
