Y Combinator-Backed Engineering Edtech Startup Skill-Lync Raises $17.5 Mn Share story Skill-Lync offers courses in the traditional engineering streams such as mechanical, electrical, civil and computer science engineering At present, it claims to have an overall user base of 20,000, of which 17,500 students are said to be from India Chennai-based edtech startup Skill-Lync has raised $17.5 Mn in Series A round led by Iron Pillar. Existing investors Y Combinator and Better Capital also participated in this funding round. Apart from these funds, the startup has also received investments from Flipkart cofounder Binny Bansal, who is now the founder of startup scale-up consultancy Xto10X as well as Xto10X cofounder Sai Krishnamurthy and Rashmi Kwatra, founder of Sixteenth Street Capital, who have come on board as new investors.