Yellowdig just graduated from 500 Startups and TechCrunch is a fan

Yellowdig, the startup that wants to be Slack for the classroom, demoed at the 500 Startups demo day this week. (500 Startups is a Silicon Valley accelerator that invests $100,000 for 5 percent equity.) TechCrunch highlighted four of their faves and Yellowdig got a quick shoutout.

They’ve done trials with 7,000 students to date, and hope to be in 100 universities by 2016.

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Wharton professor and angel investor Kartik Hosanagar is an advisor to Yellowdig, which has been piloted by MIT and Wharton. The startup was founded by ex-FMC Corporation exec Shaunak Roy, 36. When we last talked to Roy, he spoke of the company as a Reddit for the classroom and it seems like they have since rebranded.