Tagged: spanish
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ISSEN
ISSEN is an AI voice tutor for language learning. Built by Y Combinator Fall 2024 founders Mariano Sorgente and Anton Apostolatos, the app holds free-flowing spoken conversations in 50+ languages, adapts to a learner's level and interests, and lets users tune the tutor's speaking speed, patience, and accent. It targets intermediate-to-advanced self-study learners who want real conversation practice without booking a human teacher, and runs on a B2C subscription across web, iOS, and Android.
Parrot
Parrot is a San Francisco-based, Y Combinator (Fall 2025) language-learning app that works like TikTok for Spanish. Learners swipe through short, native-speaker videos with tappable subtitles and an AI tutor, absorbing the language through comprehensible input rather than flashcard drills. The company positions itself as the app that actually produces speakers, aiming to turn idle scrolling into real conversational fluency.
Sandra Pérez Baos
Sandra Pérez Baos, Ph.D. is a Senior Associate at 2048 Ventures, a NYC- and Boston-based thesis-driven early-stage VC firm that closed an oversubscribed $82M Fund III in January 2026. A scientist turned investor, she brings a decade of hands-on experience in translational immunology and molecular biology research - first as a postdoctoral researcher at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, then as a founding leader at Nucleate New York, and later as a fellow with NYU's technology commercialization office. At 2048 Ventures she leads biotech and health investments at pre-seed and seed stages, writing checks from $500K to $3M into companies building the next generation of platform biology, drug delivery, diagnostics, and digital health.