As someone who went through IK12 a few cohorts ago, I&#x27;d say it was an amazing experience. 
The team there blended the depth of general startup knowledge from YC with a huge amount of education-specific coaching&#x2F;learning&#x2F;networking.<p>Although we were part of the 20% (from that article) that didnt make it, we learnt a huge amount, and it helped inspire me to continue to work in the ed-tech space till today.<p>I do hope that after the merge they can continue to offer the same deep-dive education specific talks&#x2F;mentors&#x2F;networks&#x2F;etc that were so valuable, as it is a space with very different challenges than your typical B2B&#x2F;consumer app plays.<p>As a benefit, I suspect the YC &quot;brand&quot; will be a big help to future edtech graduates when it comes to raise money; as typically they&#x27;ve struggled much more to attract investor attention than startups in other verticals.